when i was little my grandfather had me convinced he had dropped his thumb(lost in a welding accident)and would have me looking all over the house for it. another popular story he told was that he had fought with a bear, and while turning it inside out, got his thumb bit off.
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For many many years when I was younger I used to be so affraid that one day my bellybutton was going to just come undone and that I would be left with a huge gapeing hole there and that you'd be able to see all my blood and guts, and my stomach, I was so terrified that "the knot" would come undone cos the doctor hadnt done it tight enough, and I'd bleed to death, until one day I said something to my dad, and he told me it was impossinble, but is it?! (JK)...
When I was like 6 or 7...I thought there were little people living inside people's eyes and they had there own little town and they would watch me. So whenever I looked in someones eyes I would be scared.
When I was little, I believed that your voice box was your adam's apple, and a literal box in your throat. I figured the bigger the box, the louder you could yell. I also thought that cats didn't have voice boxes, but they had purr boxes instead, because you could feel the purr in their throats.
When i was younger i once got a mosquito bite on my arm. I thought that inside the bump were little baby mosquitos that would live inside my body. i was so scared i cried.
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i used to believe that babies had no mouths because they couldnt talk
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When i was little my dad told me that if you screwed off your bellybutton your
bum would fall off
When my fiancee was a little boy, he asked his father why he was bald. His father told him that one day he was peeing and his hair just fell off into the toilet. This horrified his son, so for a few years after that, he would put his hand on top of his head to hold his hair on while using the bathroom.
I had a book that explained the human body but I couldn't read then so I only looked at the pictures. The pictures has little people running your body.. like little people had on ear-thingies and lots of mini computers in the brain. Also the bloodstream was a highway with mini cars that ran through... so I thought they needed gas for the cars so when it was cold I'd try to eat my own breath 'cause you could see it and it looked like exaust from a car. Also I talked to the mini people in my head with ear-thingies and compters.
Until I was about twelve, I thought the cervix was your adam's apple! I quickly got this idea trampled in health class one day when I blurted out, "Oh my god, women have TWO?"
When I was very yound, my foot fell asleep for the first time, but I thought it was sand in my shoe, so I took my shoes off and dumped it out, then put it back on. But there was still sand in it. I did this several times and didn't realize what it was for years later.
When i was 2 1/2 or 3 I was drinking water out of a translucent plastic cup and couldn't understand what the 10 pink dots that i could see from the indide of the cup. Every time I put the cup down they dissappeared. It wasn't for several years later that I realized in retrospect that they were my fingers
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I used to think people with lots of freckles were playing with crayons and drew dots on their face.
When I was little, my big sister told me that noses werent always there, and they came to be when people started flicking each other in the spot, and a bump formed.
i used to belive if you poke your belly button to much your legs would fall off
I used to think that if you don't close your eyes while you sneeze YOU DIE!!!!
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When i was very small i used to beleive that your eyelids would freeze if you let the wind get into them.
For a cultural day of some sort, someone cut out silhouettes of people from different coloured papers. I understood the tan and white ones (some people were albino) but then there were bright yellow ones, blue, orange, green, and purple ones. I got scared for some reason that the purple and blue people in the world were gong to take and skin me because they want to be normal. I was always scraping my knees and getting blisters on my palms so that they wouldnt want my skin. And I don't even want my skin anymore, I'm so scarred up from those misled years.
A boy in my class once tried to tell 5 year old me that you only had 7 layers of skin and when you went through all 7, there would just be a hole. He believed that a layer of skin was a set of skin. I told him "Nuh huh. I always get blisters in my hands from the monkey bars and the skin always peels off and i still dong have holes." I was deemed the smartypants and didnt talk much for a while
I was always very confused about the circulatory system. When i was a little kid, i thought the body was blood, bones, and skin. The blood just floated and sloshed around. So when people stood up fast and said the blood rushed to their head, it was just sloshing up again. When you burped, the bubbles from the sloshing blood were rising up.
In later years, we learned about blood vessels and arteries, i thought the body was just full of tubes of blood. So i took a pair of safety scissors and slashed up on of my hands. The rest of the year i thought my teacher was an idoit and that I was the only one that realized that it couldnt all be tubes or else how could my hand have bled?