Until I was 5 or 6 I believed that babies came out of the belly button. I was convinced it had to take quite a lot of time, and showed all my friends the little baby that already was growing in my belly button. Wehen they said it didn't look like a baby, I rolled my eyes and made them understand that it wasn't finished until I was adult.
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when i was little i used to think jamaican and pakistani people was people made out of brown chocolate, and i was made out of white chocolate. this stemmed from kids at school calling me the milky bar kid.
My granny told me that hair was the dead roots of your brain! I believed this for many years and once mistakingly mentioned it to my hairdresser who nearly died laughing (along with the rest of the salon)
I used to think that people saw the world in their own unique colors. For instance, to me, the grass was green, and what I called green was my own special tint and shade. Someone else, however, may see the grass as the color that I called orange, but to them, orange was green. I wondered if there were some kind of scientific test that could be done to figure this all out. I was going to be the world's greatest scientist LOLOL
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I used to believe that there were no organs in your body except for your heart and that it was just one big empty cavity.
when i was about 6 or 7 my family use to say to all the children that if they poked there tongue out a man would come along and chop it off. And they even used to curl there tongue up to make it look like half of it was missing. Its scared me i didn't want half a tongue:o(. Well safe to say i didn't poke my tongue out for years after that..tee hee
I read somewhere when I was young that the body has 7 layers of skin.
I asked my Dad if you would die when you ran out of layers... being busy at the time he just said "yeah" so I believed it till I was about 14.
One kid I know believed that because I wear glasses, it wouldn't hurt if he poked my eye.
I was told that if you crossed your eyes and the wind change your eyes would stay crossed!
When our science teacher told us that our heart pumps blood to every part of our body, I used to think it's amazing that at the sound of the "thump", blood rush out from the heart to every vein and vessels, and each drain of those blood rushes back to the heart at the end of the "thump". I must have had a powerful heart!
I have naturally blonde hair but I also have red and dark blonde in it. When I was in 6th grade I'd play with my hair in class and one day I found a dark black hair! I was mortified, I didn't want to lose my blonde hair so I examined all the hair I could and yanked out all the black ones thinking they wouldn't grow back.
When I was younger, my grandpa used to have us kids take turns rubbibg his bald head. He told us that it would make his hair grow. He would have a few strands left on his head and in a couple days he would say "LOOK! You kids are helping grandpas hair grow!"
What a way to get a free head rub!
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I used to believe my thoughts came from my tummy.
For ages after watching home alone, I believed that babys were born through the belly button & men only had belly buttons so they new where to pull there swimming trunks up to.
When I was very young a friend of my mother would come to visit. Her leg had been amputated and when she would drink coffee I waited with great anticipation thinking that the coffee would drip out any minute.
When I was very small I believed that children had no bones and that everything you ate somehow became 'stuck' to hollow spaces inside your body, where the food would become bones.
By the time I was about 3 I thought I had about half my bones and used to visualise things sticking to my half-formed skeleton to make my bones bigger.
I guess this comes from being told 'Eat up to make you strong'...but my poor mother couldn't stop laughing when I asked her about this!
When I used to make silly faces at my grandfather, he'd always tell me, "If you do that too often your face will stay like that!" or "Don't sneeze or your face will be like that forever!" I believed it.
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I used to believe that my Aunty could steal all my bones. She would tell me she had stolen them and I would scream until she gave them back.
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when i was about 7 my sister told me that people in her class used to take their eyeballs out, she refused to tell me how to do it though!
As a child I was convinced that tooth fillings would turn your teeth black. I was 36 years old before I got the courage to ask my dentist if this was true, and she looked at me like I was insane.