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I used to believe the white marks on my fingernails represented recent lies I had told. My parents told me this and I believed it for years. I was too young to wear nail polish and couldn't wear gloves in warm weather and therefore became a very paranoid, yet truthful child.

When I was little I loved to poke in my belly button until oneday my granny told me that if I keep playing around with it, it would come undone and I would fly around the room like a balloon that wasnt tied right. I still have a thing about people touching my button and when I think about someone touching it I get all squirmy.Thanks granny love you !

I used to think that women had babies through their belly buttons.

I figured that when the baby was big enough to be born, the belly button would open up and the baby lifted out, and then the belly button would just close right up again.

I'm guessing a lot of people wish it could be that simple...

I used to believe that eating chocolates will make the skin become brown.

I used to believe…

that moles were created when god dripped paint from painting the black babies

I used to think that the roof of your mouth was made of teeth, laid like tile. It sure felt that way, until I asked when those teeth would fall out, and was shown the roof of my mouth in a mirror.

I used to believe that people with brown eyes saw the world in a more brownish way, and people with blue eyes saw the world in a more blueish way and so on, if you understand what I mean. ^^,

Our grandfather told us, to be able to grow hair on your chest you had to rub duck poo over yourself. It just so happened our grandparents kept ducks, so my brothers went out to the yard and came back to proudly show nana what they done.

my dad used to tell me if i touched my belly button my bum would drop off, and i believed him

When my niece was little, about 8 years old, I had her convinced that twins (I have an identical twin sister) did not have belly buttons. It took her about 5 years to learn the difference. I am a little bit over weight, and I had pulled the front of my pants down just far enough to where you would think a belly button should be.

When I was a child my mother reliably informed me that if I didn't wash behind my ears I would grow mushrooms. I held this belief so long I can't tell you! And now of course....I tell my children the same.

I used to think my feet were made of cheese!!: )

I used to believe that there were tiny men inside me jumping on my heart to make it beat. I always wondered how come they didn't get tired...I was afraid because I got tired after jumping rope for a long time.

As a result of misunderstanding the words to the first line of the song "Ball and the Jack" ("first you put your two knees close up tight"), I thought that there was a part of your body called a "toony," of which you had two.

I used to believe each hair was a tiny tube with liquid in it, like ink. As you got older, the ink leaked out or got sucked into your head somehow, and that's why old people had grey hair.

When I was little, I was sure digits were called "thinger" and "fum". (As opposed to finger and thumb.) No matter what my mom said, I was sure I was right as fingers are THinner and thumbs are Fatter.