Growing up, my best friend was African-American however, she was adopted by two white people and thus was the only black person in her family. One day, after my mom picked me up from her house, we were driving in the car when all of a sudden i piped up and said, "Mommy! I'm going to be the frist person in our family to turn black!"
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When I was little about 4 or 5 my older sister told me that when I painted my nails and got nailpolish on my skin my skin would turn the same color as the nailpolish and peel off like a banana. Needless to say I didn't paint my nails for a looong time :)
When the troll dolls first came out, I thought I could put a jewl in my belly button and rub it and then my wish would come true. I was dissapointed when it didn't and stopped when one got stuck inside my belly button...
Also, my friend told me that if you got rabies you had to go to the doctor and they would strap you down to a table and give you 23 shots in your belly button!
I was convinced that I was the only person in the world who couldn't move their eyes. I'd see everyone else moving their eyes and get really jealous. I used to try practice in the mirror but I could never tell because I couldn't see my eyes when I looked away... hmmm....
You may know, that in Britain, soldiers wear bearskin hats at ceremonial occasions.
Up to when I was about 7 I believed that the army only recruited people with black hair and that they then formed it into this shape
I used to think that love came from the heart, that it just eminated from it. Of course now I know love comes from the brain. I think it is a common misconception among many children and adults today, though.
I used to be completely convinced that the sleep in your eyes was actually what made you go to sleep. So whenever I woke up in the morning and wanted to go to sleep, I made sure I never rubbed the sleep out my eyes so I could get back to sleep.
I used to believe that black people were just white people that had got really good, all over tans.
This was further reinforced when I saw that the palms of black people's hands and feet were white, which obviously happened because when they tanned they kept their hands flat.
In dreams, I always had the ability to bite the side of my thumb off so I believed that I could when I was awake. I remember how surprised I was on the day I found out I couldn't. I went around asking people if they could.
I used to think that if you rubbed your eyes with different pressures that one of them would pop out more then the other one... I believed this until I was about 11
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I used to think that my tonsils were in my wrist because that's where they gave me the injection before starting my tonsilectomy
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I used to believe that if you got to much water in your bellybutton when you were taking a bath, it would shrivel up and fall off of your belly.
Once, at the age of about four or five, I tried my mum's face cream on. She burst into the room and said that I would now grow breasts! Being a boy, I didn't want this! Believing her, I asked her to take me to the doctor, but she didn't. I have never touched my mothers face cream since.
When I was a little girl we got a puppy who looked like a cow- white with big black spots. as she got older, she got a lot of little black freckles, and my dad used to say that she got a new freckle every time she did something bad. well, I had (still have) tons of freckles! I thought for sure that it meant I was a bad child in comparison to my freclke-less sisters and classmates.
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Since my father had a deep cleft in his chin, I thought he was growing a tiny buttocks out of his face.
I was about 5 when I heard my uncle was coming for a visit. They said he had a broken arm. I cried and said I didn't want to see my uncle because I imagined his arm was just hanging there all broken and mangled.
When I was a kid, I believed that when you got older your teeth fell out. I knew so many older people had false teeth that the assumption I made was that they must just fall out as you get older, like when you lose your baby teeth when you're a kid. Let me tell you I was VERY relieved to learn that regular brushing, flossing and trips to the dentist would keep my teeth in place.
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When I was about 4 I was convinced that if you ate the skin on McDonald's chicken mcnuggets you would get freckles. I have NO idea where that came from.
My brother used to tell me that the green line on the toe of his sock smelled like mint. After he made me smell his toes and I didn't smell mint he told me everyone else could and there was something wrong with my nose!
When i was wee i thought i could get a suntan from a radiator... so i used to sit in front of one for hours and when my back got all red i thought i was sun burned... i was a strange child...