I used to believe that the body would replace any severed limb eventually. This was (most likely) because when I visited the 1976 Paralympics in Toronto with my parents, I noticed that the arms and legs of a few of the athletes (the Thalidomide victims, I realized much later) were quite obviously in a state of growing back. I also remember thinking that the athletes were really cool, keeping up their sport while they were still recovering from such a horrible accident.
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i used to think that nostrils were called estrils
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I used to think that all shoes were hollow, and so ladies who wore highheeled shoes were forced to because of their funny, pointy-heeled feet.
When I was about 5 yrs. old my friend, Peggy, told me that if you stared at the sun long enough, you would go blonde. We tried it, but our eyes couldn't handle it, so we gave up. This was way back in the days when the phrase "blondes have more fun" was popular. I didn't make the connection that someone must have told Peggy she would go BLIND staring at the sun until well into my thirties. I still laugh when I think of it.
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i believed that the muscle in my mouth above my top teeth that goes to my top lip was a bit of bread crust that got stuck and grew over.
To add to the belly button thing. I was also told by my mom that if you messed with your belly button it would come undone and that my guts would come out. I honestly believed this until I had my first child at 18. I was observing my belly button and it was quite dirty. I called my grandma to see how I should clean it and she told me with a q tip and some rubbing alcohol. I then told her I was scared that I was going to untie my belly button. After she gathered herself from laughter, I told her it was her daughter that told me this would happen. That made it that much funnier to her. Don't worry, I clean my belly button all the time now, but this is still a family joke and usually gets brought up around the holidays. Good to know I can be the one for laughter.
When younger I hand botom lenght hair that I hated having brushed morning and night, My aunt who also had long hair told me there was a button on the back of her neck which took here hair off, but could I find that button!! I was 15 before I found out the truth.
I have always had an "outie" rather than an "innie" belly button and this used to upset me when I was young as I wanted to be like all of my friends who had innies. My mother told me that mine was magic and all I had to do was push the button and make a wish. So when people thought I was weird for having a sticky out belly button I used to tell them this story. (they probably thought I was even weirder then). I believed my mother though and waited patiently for all my wishes to come true.
I used to believe that if you intied your belly button then your bum would fall down!!!
My dad LIVED in white tee shirts around the house and was always picking lint out of his navel. He told my sisters and I that he grew cotton in his belly button. We could never figure out why WE couldn't grow it too.
my friend was told by her mum that if she played with her belly button it would come undone and she'd have a hole for the rest of her life. She's turning 20 now and she will not, and i mean WILL NOT touch her belly button..
When I was younger I could never grasp the idea of a person being colour blind, I didnt understand how this worked, did they only see in black and white? a little while later I learned a little more and it still confuses me today. Green-Red, Red-Green, pff, who knows.
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I used to believe that if a baby was born white, he'd grow up to be black, and if a baby was born black, he'd grow up to be white.
when i was young, my brother told me that everybody's little toes would fall off when they grew old. i never could understand why my mum still had hers, but i still believed my brother for a long time.
When I was younger I believed that to get babies out of their mothers stomachs you pressed their belly buttons and out they popped. How niave
I used to believe that when you closed you eyes you were invisible and no-one could see you!
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when i was little and had a stomache, i used to think a little man was in my stomach poking away with a pitchfork.
when i was young i was told that if i played with or turned my belly button that my bum would fall off
When I was off to my first day off school,I remember my mum saying to me.."Give me a BIG Smile so I can see your dimples"
So from then on I thought dimples were actually the gaps in my TEETH!
I was a LOOONG time until i found out they were on your cheeks.
My parents used to tell that if I didn't clean my ears, potatoes would start to grow in them - a terrifying thought.