Whenever I played outside my parents would say that I could go as far as I like, so long as they could see me. And that if I could see them, they could see me. Using this logic I came to the conclusion that by closing my eyes, they wouldn't be able to see.
Many of my friends also had parents that told them this, and we had all come to the same conclusion. This made playing hide and seek very confusing.
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i used to believe that colored people were burnt in gods oven
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When i was little, i believed that if you slept with socks on, your feet would fall off.
I never knew that the tooth grew back after you lost it, so I always was so scared when I got my first loose tooth and I always tried to put them back in..until the age of maybe about 10.
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When I was 3-4 yrs old i would stay in the bathroom for hours and wash my hands, i belived if i´d wash them long enough they would shine like a silk glove..
My Grandad used to tell me on the 31st of December every year to look for the man with as many noses as there are days left in the year, 'you have to be quick he only comes out today'. For years I used to wait looking to see a man walk past with 365 noses.
I never did see him!
I was taken on a London bus in the 1950's when the government was encouraging people from overseas to come to fill certain jobs. Seeing something I had never seen before - a lady with black skin on the bus - I screamed loudly and pointed to my mothers embarrasment (and the lady's probably) "Mummy Mummy that lady needs to go to hospital!!"
when i was younger i once saw my grandmother take her dentures out while getting ready for bed. i used to think that at a certain age we could take our teeth out of our mouths, and i would try it everyday. finally, after about a month or so of me trying to take out my teeth my father asked me what i was doing , so i told him i was trying to take out my teeth, and asked when htey would come out whole like grandma's.
When i was little i saw one of my grandma's take our her dentures which i had never seen anyone do before so i was totally scared of her for like a week because i thought she would get to close to me my teeth would fall out to, but mom explained to me that old people have dentures, so the next week i was sittin on my other grandmas lap and she smiled at me and i grabbed on to the front of her teeth and just pulled on, thinking i could just pull them out, but my other grandma didnt have dentures and also didn't appreciate me shoving my hand in her mouth!
When i was little i thought that blind people just had there eyes glued shut. So i would walk around with my eyes closed and thought that people would think that i was blind.
i used to believe that if you drew a colour on your arm you would turn this colour over night, so i wrote my favoerite colour on my arm (PINK!)
and over night i had slept on my front and as i woke up i was very pink and sweaty! i had my dad explaining that you only got hot over night!!!
When I was in Kindergarten, my teacher told us that people had eyes in the back of their heads, and that day I went home crying because I thought I was going blind (since the eyes in the back of my head didn't work).
I was bald until I was almost 3 years old. My older brother was always worried about my baldness and often asked my mother about it. My mother always assured him that I would get hair someday soon.
We had a small fire in our house when I was still young, and still bald. After the fire was put out by firefighters, the fireman took off his helmet to wipe the sweat from his brow. My brother immediately started crying. My mother tried to assure him that the fire was out and everything was okay. "No Mom, look! That man doesn't have hair and he's old!. Kim's never going to get hair, is she?"
I used to think that your belly button was a hole into your body and when it gets fiddled with your finger would touch your stomach and poison it.
When I was young, I used to think that if a black person and a white person had a child, the baby would be half black and half white. I mean a line right down the middle seperating the two havles. I thought racism existed the because some people didn't want that to happen.
When I was little, we took a bus ride and I noticed an overweight man. I turned to my mom and told her I knew what "hangover" meant... it was when your stomach hanged over your belt.
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Until I was in high school, I fully believed that if you were to take out your intestines, that it would be long enough to be wrapped around the earth.
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My aunt told me if I swallowed my tooth, then it will go all the way down and the tooth will stick out of my belly button.
When I was 6,I used to belive that people had a baby that came from your bellybutton.When the bellybutton was pushed your butt would fall off and a baby would follow.
When i was a kid growing up in Norway i used to believe that princesses bleed blue blood and so thinking that i used to believe that anyone who bled blue blood was royalty!