I once believed that if your hand is bigger than your face, it means you probably have AIDS. Isn't that ridiculous? I don't remember who told me that, but to whom ever said it, you're dumb.
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I know a friend in college who believed that if she sat on a pillow, she would get pimples on her rear.
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When I was little I used to think that my hair could feel. I remember having long arguments about it with my sister.
i used to belive that when women were pregnant the baby would stay in her tummy untill it was ready and then the mother would just press her belly buttun and out it would pop
I used to think an eyeball, if cut in half lengthwise, would look like a hard boiled egg. I couldn't eat one of them until I was much much older
When I was very little, my mom took me to the grocery store. We saw a man with a hump on his back. My mom had recently had my sister so I knew what pregnat was. I, being usualy quiet, blurted out," Look, Mommy, he's going to have a baby!" She was embarrased but she told me that the man understood.
I used to take my bath with my older sister. Our favourite game was to pretend to shave ourselves with soap and our father's razor blade, the security cap on of course. Once, I tried the blades on my arm without the cap, but my sister got so scared that I could do it again and injure myself, that she told me thtat if I shaved my hair once again, it would grow very long and I would turn into a beast. And my mother confirmed. Scary, all the more that I started to feel bumps on my forehead, and thought there was horns growing...
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I used to think that mustaches were just really long nose hairs.
i once saw a picture of a foetus which kinda looked like my belly button so thats where i thought babies camme from!
When i was little i thought my grandpa had a bald spot because he never brushed his hair, being afraid that my hair would fall out i always brushed my hair at least 5 times a day.
Used to think you had babies out of your belly button...oh well.
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Ever since I was 12, I believed that my mom really saw a guy sneeze his eyes out. So whenever someone sneezed, I'd yell out "Close your eyes!"
I uses to believe that my Dad's finger was like a pencil he could write with it because there was dirt under the nail and I thought it was like the lead in a pencil.
When I was little, my brother told me that if you looked through a cardboard tube for like toilet paper or paper towels, and you looked down, your eye would fall out.
My teenage cousin,15 at the time, told me a 5 year old told me during the winter if you ran your hands under hot water when your hands a numb(very cold)your fingers would fall off. it sounds dumb but i believed it for 4 years.
My parents did a bad job explaining why fingernails, etc. grew back when you cut them...so I truly believed that if I cut off a finger it would grow back...don't worry I never tried....
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My stepbrother used to think that if you twisted your belly button your bum fell off and ran scared everytime it was threatened
When I was little, I noticed the little black spots inside your bellybutton. I thought these were flies so everytime I visited my grandmas house I would go into the pantry and grab the fly swater and then start swatting my belly button!!
When I was little my dad told me if I played with my belly button too much it would come undone and all the food would fall out of my stomach. My brother was convinced he had a seed in his belly button and he picked it until it bled.
I used to believe that everyone had a different colored brain and (of course) I was the only one who could assign them a color. It usually coressponded to their favorite color though. :)