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I used to believe that if you had an operation, it had to start at the belly button. So if you had to have brain surgery...boy howdy!
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A friend of mine wanted to be a hairdresser because she thought of a radical new hairstyle. A hairstyle full of holes and squares in long straight hair. Her father put her straight but it took a while for her to be convinced that it was impossible to cut out figures in long hair...
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I was told by mum when I was little(and used to believe it until I was a teenager) that when you told a lie your eyes turned green!!
I used to think that all your teeth fell out at once and spent many a moment worrying myself how i would eat when it happened.
I used to believe that is you wore socks in bed your toes would drop off. The only exception was if you had verrucas, in which case the opposite was true. My mum insists she never said this, despite both my brothers also havind believed it.
I used to belief that women had babies by pressing their belly buttons!
I used to believe that if I touched my pupil it would run into the white, like the yellow of the yolk runs into the white of an egg. This belief was challenged by the advent of contact lenses. As a child I had no eye infections because I never touched the inside of my eye!
I was told that if you chew your hair you end up with a hairball in your stomach and DIE!!!!!
when i was younger, i got hit in the face in gym with a dodgeball or something. i kept crying not because my face hurt, but because i was convinced that my eyes were loose and were going to fall out.
if you cross your eyes and there's a gush of wind, you'll get stuck like that !!
When I was a bout 3 or so, I was quite disturbed by two things
1: How come other people could move their eyes without moving their heads and I couldn't when I tried in the mirror
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2: I thought that every couple of seconds I went temporarily blind. Later I found out I was blinking.
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When I was 7 years old I thought that me, as a black person, would get lighter in the sun as a white person would get darker in the sun.
When I was 8 years old, my babysitter used to tell me that when I had a hangnail and you pulled it down, your hand would unravel and i wouldnt have a hand anymore
I used to believe you could breathe through your belly button. I think this belief came from swimming lessons, where when I was doing the back float the teacher would say "Keep your belly out of the water" which I guess made me think my navel was like a whale's blowhole.
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My aunt told me that when eating an orange if I was to accidentally eat some of the peel I would get worms in my eyes. I still avoid eating oranges.
I used to believe that my birth mark was a tea stain!
I remember the first time I saw a person of African-American decent, I was with my grandma...I looked up and saw this person with such dark skin and shouted out to my grandma, "Why is that man made of chocolate!?" I was immediately ushered back into the house.
Both my dad my grandfather (his dad) are bald on top of their heads. When I was a kid I always thought they chose to wear their hair tht way. I asked my dad one morning, "Daddy, how come you cut your hair just like grandpa's?"
Me and my sisters all have sticky-innie belly-buttons and when we were all little our mum used to tell us not to pick and poke at our belly-buttons or they would come unravelled!
My sister still believed this until the age of 28 - when me and my other sister explained it was just one of those things mums say!
I have a sticky out belly button and was always fiddling with it when I was young until my dad told me that if you pulled your belly button out your bum would fall off!