I used to belive that if you held a flashlight up to your eyes, you would eventually be able to see perfectly in the dark. I would spend hours "working" on my night vision ablilties.
Today, I wear glasses.
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I used to believe that men with excess belly fat had just eaten a huge meal, and they were so stuffed that their stomachs bulged. Following this, I also believed that women's stomachs were in their behinds.
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I used to believe that belly buttons were the knots left after the umbilical cord was removed. I thought that the sticky-out kind was a different sort of knot.
I used to think that showing your bellybutton was really inappropriate. I remember seeing a poster of the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Donny Osmond on it showing (gasp) his bellybutton. My mom told me we were going to see his show, and I said, "No! I don't want to see his bellybutton!"
i used to think the color of african americans skin was black because God had a chocolate pouring machine and he put some white babies on it and it would pour chocolate on them. i concluded that their palms were white because their palms were down on the conveyor belt so they didnt get any chocolate on them. then once i saw my black friend get water on his arm from the water fontain and i thought that his arm would turn white.
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When I was little I thought everybody had a innie belly button because I did. But the forst time I saw a outie belly button I asked, "whats that?"
My girlfriend used to believe that shaving cream would actually let your hair fall out. (She didn't realize her mistake until I told her - she was 25 at the time...)
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I used to think if you blew your nose your brains would come out, so i always ran around with a snotty nose until i was like 10
I think I was about six. I was sitting in the car with my mom, and a man with long hair in a ponytail walked past us. I pointed at him and said, "Look, mom, it's a cross between a man and a woman!"
I think her response was, "......Uh....."
Up untill the age of about 7 or 8, I was completly convinced that the reason we all have bellybuttons is because when God made us in his giant oven the way he knew that we were cooked was by prodding the middle of our bellys (like a fairy cake). It also explained the two varieties of bellybuttons; the innie and the outie. If you were not done then yoour bellybutton would pop out after being poked, hence outies.
If you were done then they would stay in.
Unfortunatly this belief was shattered when dressing my baby sister just after birth, I was most disgusted to fing a large brown 'worm' instead of a neat bellybutton.
I used to believe your eardrum was a little pile in your ear and if you stuck a q-tip too far in there you'd make it break off and tip over and if you turned your head to one side it'd roll out of your ear. After that where it broke off it'd bleed and then scab over into a new eardrum but you'd be deaf in that ear.
For the longest time, I used to believe an odd thing about sleep crusties (the bits of dead skin that build up in the corners of your eyes, yano)
I would tell myself every night, not to rub them out in the morning, because I believed that if you left it long enough, the crusties would build up in a mold of you eye. I thought it would be so cool to have a crusty mold of my eye (??). Of course, I was weak and never accomplished this feat ;)
When I was about 4 I saw a little boy in pre-school that had orange, spiky hair and everyone was calling him "Torch." I automaticly thought his head was on fire! So I took my cup of juice (we were eating lunch) and threw it on his head!
When I was little, I was such a big cry baby and my cousins teased me a lot about this. One night, my cousin told me if I cried too much, I'd run out of water for my tears and cry blood instead, just like those statues of saints. I was terrified about this statement, and started crying. I ran to the mirror in my aunt's room, and I saw that my eyes were red!(I never noticed this before for some reason) I told myself to stop crying since blood would come out faster, but I'd cry even more.
It was a weird process, and I cried a lot that night. 0_0;;
I remember being in the 3rd grade, and my older brother was in the 7th grade. He was older then me, so *of course* he knew everything. While at school oneday, I saw a girl in my class and her hair was long, eventho it was extremely short the day before! I just couldnt figure out how she got her hair long so fast. I asked my brother about it, and he told me that their mom stretched their hair. I believed that for a long time too!
I eventually learned about weave, lol. :]
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I used to believe that all boys had brown eyes and all girls had blue eyes, because in my family of 3 females and 3 males this is how is it was.
I thought that when I was born my Mum had selected the style of my belly button out of a catalogue that nurses could do. I was a bit cross coz with her because it was a sticky outy one.
I used to believe that everyone had a baby and it was stored in their Belly Button. Because once I looked in there adn saw a line and thought it was my babys butt Crack. So sometimes I would Randomly whip my baby by sticking my finger in my belly button
I used to believe that all boys had outie belly-buttons. I also believed that when they needed to pee, they would go to the urinals, lift up their shirts, and peed through their belly buttons.
I used to think "birthmarks" or "beauty marks" were just a polite term for cancer, and if I looked at someone with a birthmark, I would catch cancer and get very sick and die