body parts

When i was younger i believed that if you did get rid of the crud in your eye right when you woke up, then your eyes would get clogged and fall out like they were on a very long piece of pink yarn and if they fell out you would have to hold your eyeballs in your hands for the rest of your life. I also thought that pink eye shadow was so cool and because i wasn't allowed to wear make-up i put bubble gum on it, so the color (not the gum) would stick.

When I was about 5 or so, my mom had taken me shopping with her. As we were walking down the sidewalk, and people would be passing us, I suddenly took notice that everyone who was walking -- even my own mom -- moved their arms in perfect sync with their legs. As their left leg stepped forward, their left arm also moved forward, in perfect sync -- and then the same with their right arm and right leg.

I was facinated, then began looking around to see if there was anyone who wasn't doing it. The only exceptions were when people were holding something -- but if their arm was free, it always moved in sync with their corresponding leg.

Finally, I looked up at my mom and asked, "Mommy, is it a law that people have to swing their arms next to their legs when they walk?"

Completely clueless to what I was talking about, she just answered, "Yes."

And so, for years afterwards, I truly thought it was a law!

How funny that when I grew up and learned about science, I discovered that it really WAS a law -- the physical LAW of nature!

When I was about 5 years old I had this book called "The Human Body" its was almost as tall as me and said how your body worked ... all different parts .. it was really cool , but in it , it would show for example the muscles in your arm and they were represented by little strings/ropes and they were being pulled by little men in what looked like train conductor overalls , and in the brain there were some really stressed out people answering telephone calls from allover your body .... I beleived for acouple of years that this was true and that your body was controlled by little people ... some of whom were wearing little train conductor overalls << I felt VERY bad for the ones who I saw in the "waste removal" section who sorted your poop and pee into sections according to colour and contents with big metal spoons ....

When I was a child, I was told by my mother that I shouldn't pick at my belly button because behind it was all of my "guts" and it would all come out one day if I didn't leave my navel alone.

When I was younger I was fasincated with my dads belly button because it always had fuzz in it. He always told me that he had a fuzz factory in his belly button and had to empty it every day or else it would over flow. I always wanted my own fuzz factory until I realized that it was really from his shirt:s

my childhood friend told me not to touch the bandage covering her new brother's belly button. if i did, she said, the baby would explode. i said that was ridiculous, and leaned over the crib to touch it as proof.
the baby farted, and i fainted.

When I was in kindergarten, thought that African-American people were colored the way they were because they had been playing in the dirt. I was afraid to play with them because I thought I would get dirty too!

My grandpa always used to tell me that his friend Georgie lived inside of his belly button. I tried to find George in my belly button, but gave up. I figured only grandpas has Georges in their belly buttons.

when i was little i was always told i had such big beutiful eyes. when i was a little older (and people still always complimented me on my eyes) i saw someone at super cuts who's eyes were buldging out of their eye sockets. i was afraid that i would look like that when i was older. so i told my mom that, and she explained that the person had some sort of surgery or something because she had some kind of disease. i was relieved, but to this day i feel bad for that lady.

I once went to the dentist and the hygenist tried to explain to me about bacteria and plaque--I ddn't believe that invisible bugs lived in my teeth and figured they was something made up by adults to scare kids into brushing their teeth.

When i was about 13, my grandmother was visiting us, and it just happened to coincide with my mother asking me to go hang a load of wash out on the clothesline. I was baffled when I picked up my dad's jockstrap.. I was convinced that it must be one of my grandmother's bras.. and she must have been born single (center) breasted. It was several more years before i figured out what it actually was.

When I was only a few years old I saw a bald man and asked my mother where his hair was as I never recalled seeing a bald person before this, and she told me he had lost his hair, so for several years after that I believed that anyone who had "lost their hair" had a wig of their hair hiding behind their stereo or under a chair in their house and they just couldn't find it, and I always wanted to go home with them to help look for it.

I used to believe that I had a naughty brain in my knee and a good brain in my arm, this belief was scrapped when I broke my arm and I still behaved like a good girl

My aunt told me that if you whirl round and round, you ultimately will be able to see the back of your head. I had thrown up at least 3 times trying to see the back of my head.

I live by the sea, and we all know that salty water makes your hair curlier. I have natural curly hair, and I always thought that the poor people far away from the sea have flat hair and if you live by the sea and have flat hair is because you don't like the beach. HUH????

I used to believe that the floaters in my eyes belonged to the cia!- I used to believe that somehow they could use my eyes for crime detection , like the invisible man - and like big brother they looked through me!