body parts

When my older sister was little, my oldest sister told her that soap would turn your hair white. She believed that for the longest time.

I was told that when women were pregnant they would get so fat their belly buttons would pop out. What it actually meant was that their innies would turn into outies, but I thought they would literally pop off their stomachs and land on the floor. When my mom was pregnant with my younger sister, I would follow her around, looking for any belly buttons that landed on the floor. I also figured that the woman would give it to the baby and then grow a new one after the pregnancy ended. I figured that a mother only had a certain number to give to her children, since I am the fourth of five children and my mom never got pregnant (or showed her belly button) after my younger sister was born.

I used to believe…

not to long ago i thot equilebrium was a part of your brain. honestly i still do

I used to believe that if you went to bed with wet hair, your head would shrink in the night. Due to my Dad telling me that shrunken tribal heads happened that way.

When my brother and I were little, whenever we saw a belly button on tv we would scream and hide our eyes. We thought it was some sort of private part. Like they were naked or something.

My dad told me that if i put a key in my belly button, my bottom would fall off! God knows how he came up with that one but i am still terrified if a key strays too close to my navel

I formed a belief that the older you were, logically the bigger your feet. I could never figure out why on earth my dad had bigger feet than my grandfather-it made absolutely no sense!-and my mom couldnt even begin to try to explain it to me...

I used to believe that if I played with my belly button my bottom would fall off...it gave me a phobia of belly buttons and I can't bear to see sticky-out's or people poking them!

When I was small my sister told me she had a spare pair of legs which she used for sunbathing. She said she kept them under the bed and scerwed them on when she needed to.

I used to believe that your mouth was like a sponge, and your saliva had sort of a fixed limit. So if you had a mouthful of saliva, and you swallowed it, it was like squeezing all the water from a sponge, and there wasn't any more.

I didn't want to have a permanently dry mouth, so whenever I salivated, I'd hold it in my mouth, wondering why it didn't get reabsorbed...

I thought a visual minority meant somebody who wore glasses

Once when I was in preschool the teacher asked how many times we could bend our fingers. i ket bending mine the whole time worrying the once I used up all the times i could bend my fingers i would never be able to be able to bend my fingers again. when the gilr next to me raised her hands and saiod three I told her she must have bent her fingers a lot before. Of course they meant how many places can you bend your finger.

When i was younger, i used to pick my belly-button all the time, until my um caught me one day and said that if i picked it anymore my stomach would open up and id de-inflate like a balloon. I soon found this wasnt true.

When I was first learning to brush my own teeth, my mum would always remind me "don't forget to brush your back teeth". No one had ever explained to me what "back teeth" meant, so for years I used to gag myself trying to find the teeth at the back of my mouth.

Of course, i never found any teeth in my throat, but was too scared to ask mum about it because I thought I'd be told off for not having brushed them in years. I was about 8 when a dentist visited my school and I plucked up the courage to ask her about it. I felt a bit stupid, but at least it stopped me pushing toothbrushes down my throat...

I was about 4 when I first saw a black person. (give me a break, I lived on a farm in Tennessee!) My mother says that I asked him if someone had set him on fire! My mom does not remember how he explained his skin color to me...

This is my brothers
When he was two years old he noticed that my mother had moles on her neck. He asked them what they were and she told him. Somehow he made the connection between her moles and his nipples. He has referred to his nipples as moles for two years now.