My Nan used to tell me Germans would destroy my teeth if I didn't brush them at night. For years I'd go to bed with visions of Nazi's bashing my teeth with their guns. Finally, aged around 8 I realised she was talking about germs.
At the same time I believed I had fleas living in my hair as my dad used to sit me down and break their backs with his nails. The sound of the nails cracking was pretty effective and I used to sit dead still while he spent several minutes saying: "Here's one, snap!' "Hold one! And another one!" Etc.
Finally, I was very confused as to why our neighbours, the Meek family, (three boys around my age who tortured earth worms) would inherit the earth. I used to glance at Robert during school assembly racking my brains trying to work out why they were the chosen ones.
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when i was little my nan used to care for me before school, and she used to tie the top half of my hair back in an up-down style. there was always this curly bit that stuck right out of the side of my fringe, and seeing as i had reasonably straight hair, it confused me.
i said "whats that curly bit for?" my nan said "its just a corr flick, thats all"
but i always thought she called it a corn flake. what had curly bits got to do with kellogs cereal?
When I was four my elder sister told me that the white tear ducts in my eyes were actually full of spider eggs that spiders laid there while I was sleeping. She said that everytime I cried the spiders would be born on my face. I didnt cry for weeks.
If you played with your belly button it would unscrew and your bum would fall off....
When I was four years old I had to have some extentsive eye-surgury or else I would have gone blind in my right eye. Everything went well (though I will always be farsighted and need glasses) but inspite of all the information I learned about the surgury before-hand, I thought that the docter quite simply took my eyes out of there sockets and then switched the left and right so they would face the right way.
Still, even that thought wasnt as scary as the eye-drops!
When I got a wart on my finger I thought if it touched anywhere the wart would spread so I spent days bending my pinkie finger away from the others My mom noticed and told me I would bend the bone like that. For months I thought I had.
My parents told me that if I got hit in the head while I was crossing my eyes they would stay that way
I once thought that if I ever shaved my pubic hair, it wouldn't grow back again.
When I was young my parents misled me into believing that there were creatures known as 'belly button monsters', and occasionally showed me dead specimens that had been washed out of my father's belly button after he had had a shower. At one point diagrams were even drawn of the creatures in an attempt to convince me. Why my parents did this I'm not sure, but to this day I don't trust belly button fluff, just in case it is alive.
I used to beleive that my dad only had a shave on Sundays. Because he got up before me on all the other days.
When I was little, I believed I would grow warts if I touched the eye of a fish and the wart would smell "fishy" for the rest of my life!
When I was little and played with my Barbies, I noticed that if you pulled on their legs, the leg would just pop right out from the hip. From then on, I thought that if my leg was pulled on hard enough, it would pop out just like my Barbie. Scary for a little kid, but how ridiculous to think!
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When I was little, my dad would tell me that if I didn't clean out my ears, potatoes would grow in them. To this day, I clean my ears religiously.
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When I was a small girl, I used to believe black men had fallen into chocolate.
my mom took me to the eye doctor for the first time when i was in 7th grade. my brothers were telling me scary stories about what happens while at the eye doctor. my one brother said they put 2 types of eye drops in your eyes, one thats really hot, and the other thats really cold. well, i imagined them putting the hot ones in my eyes first, and they would catch on fire, so then they would have to put the cold ones in to put out the flames. this would cause my eyes to become frozen, and in the process, my pupils would get different sizes from the scorching heat and ice cold sensations. to make it worse, i thought that when they give you those paper sunglasses to wear afterwards were to keep your frozen eyes from falling out, and to keep the scorching hot sun as far away as possible. The day before my doctor appointment, i cried for hours, terrified of what was going to happen to me. i still don't like going to the eye doctor to this day.
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When I was a kid I thought if I bit my finger off and swallowed it it would pop back into place
In Kindergarten every1 thot that they could turn into the opposite sex if they kissed their elbow. One boy actually managed to do this and the next day he came to school with makeup and a ribbon in his hair!!! Good times, gooood times.
My mum told me that if I picked at the stuff that gathered in my belly button my umbilical cord will come undone and all my fluids will fall out. That petrified me until I was maybe thirteen, when I confronted my mum on how to get it clean if I couldn't touch it. She couldn't believe that I still believed her. I'm a rather gullible person, i suppose.
My sister used to believe if you stuck a Q-Tip in one of her ears her brain would pop out the other ear.
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My sister used to believe that if you ate spaghetti when you were bald the spaghetti would pop out of your head instead of hair.