When i was little, my grandpa told me that his hair fell out because when he was a little boy he put curlers in his hair and made them too tight.
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My mom used to tell me when I was in preschool that if you chewed your hair that it would turn into worms. So I stopped doing it, and every time I would see other kids doing it, I would laugh to myself and think...wow that's gonna be gross.
My cousin told me that the reason he wore a retainer in his mouth was because he had a hole in the roof of his mouth and his brain would fall out if he didn't wear it. I so believed him!
My father told me that when you lost a tooth if you didn't put your tongue in the hole, you would grow a gold tooth, of course it's almost impossible not too. I believed this until about fifth grade. Thanks Dad. Ha Ha
my mother used to tell me if u poked your belly button your butt would fall off!
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Along time ago when I was like 6 I decided that everybody saw diferent colors. One person would see pink and another would see blue.
i used to believe that if i did an action with one half of my body (i.e. wiggle my left toes) that I would have to do it on the other side of the body as well, or it would get jealous.
For some reason I used to think you could get a hangnail anywhere on your body and can remember asking my mom if she would look and see if I had a hangnail on my back.
my uncle was hurt in an accident when he was a kid, and now there's no hair where he had to have surgery on his head. until i was about 14 i believed his story of how he made a go-cart that was so fast it blew all his hair off.
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I never used to take shower after going to the beach, because i thought that tans washed off right away.
i grew up in a small suburban town with mostly white people. in preschool i was obsessed with whoopie goldberg and a friend in my class had a black nanny. i didnt know any black people and thought she was just so lucky to have whoopie goldberg as a nanny.
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I used To believe that if you picked your freckles you would get skin cancer
My mom(and best friend forever) used to tell me that if I kept sucking on my hair i would get worms in my stomach... dont ask...
When i was little around 4 my sister was watchign me and i had a permanet marker. I accidently made a line on myself and i thoguh it look liek stiches. So i ran through my house screaming that i had stiches and i didn twant them anymore.
So back in the day when i was a whee lil' me, i always believed that i was born with earrings becuz i had earrings way back when i can remember. wow...it didn't take me until i was 13 and was getting more holes in my ears was i finally told the truth...i wasn't born with earrings.
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I used to think that jewish men wore "kippots" or "yarmulkes" to cover their bald spots..
When i was little my mom told me that she could "plug" her ears and wouldn't be able to hear what i said. being little i believed her and would tell her to plug her ears so i could tell my dad all sorts of secrets (like what her birthday present was) in front of her. the really sad part is i believed this until i was about 14 or so. very gullible little child (and adult)!
When I was younger, my cousin told me about her friend who tried to do the splits and got split up her middle. Well naturally, I had visions of her friend literally tearing down her middle and all her insides falling out. Turns out, thats not quite what happened...
When I was about 3-4 my sister told me that when your born you have no butt crack and the docters have to take a butter knife and make one. LOL!!!!! I BELIEVED THAT!!!!!!
when i was a baby,when my brother stuck his thumb between his fingers and said
"i got your nose" i used to think he really had it and i would say"mom gage wont give me my nose back!"