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"the wind will change and your face will stay like that"
so when my cousin used to pull stupid faces, i used to blow on her face slowly and then quickly (like as if the wind really was changing) in the hope of seeing her face stuck in the stupid face she was pulling....
When I was young my brother used to be convinced he didnt have any internal organs. Im me and my sister tryed to convice him otherwise he would run off crying. The most disterbing part is that both my perants are in the medical profesion.
My dad always told me that eating carrots would improve my vision. So everytime I ate a carrot, I would look at some object and continue focusing on it as I ate the carrot. Right after I swallowed, I was sure that I could see the object much better!
I used to believe…
iwas told by an uncle that if you played with your belly button, that worms would come out. to this day it makes me nauseated to touch my belly button.
My mom used to tell me that she could tell that I was lying because I had little lights in my eyes... and she still teases me because I believed her!
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If you look really close at your tongue you can see the tastebuds. As A kid I used to think they were tentacles and the moved around
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I used to believe that if you wore cowboy boots your toes were actually as pointy as the boots. All scrunched at the very top.
When I was younger I asked my mother what would happen if you didn't wake up a body part that had fallen asleep. She told me that it would dissappear! You never saw someone so intent on waking a body part like I was, all the while terrified I wasn't doing it quick enough and soon my arm/leg/hand, etc... would be gone!
My father had gone bald years before I was born. We had a picture of him as a young man in the Navy, and he had his hair clipped really short. I thought they shaved his head for the navy, and it never grew back.
I thought that only men had hair under their arms, and that women didn't. Kind of like how only men can grow beards- same thing. I was a teenager when my mom told me that women have armpit hair- they just shave it off. It took me awhile to believe it. I'm a male, by the way.
You know when you yawn really wide a little squirt of spit comes out of your mouth? Well I used to think it was a little man in my throat that was always there with a water hose (that's why my mouth was always wet) and when I opened my mouth too wide the hose oversprayed and some of the water shot out.
I can remember thinking that is I hid my eyes, and couldn't see anybody that they couldn't see me.
I used to believe only certain men grew beards, not all of them.
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A kid in my kindergarten class once told me that freckles were caused by raindrops falling on your skin, rotting, and turning brown.
I used to believe that as you grew taller/larger, your skin grew out of your belly button to cover your extra inchs. One day I put a biro circle round my belly button and watched for ages to see if the biro mark moved. Obviously I had a lot of time on my hands when I was younger!!!!
When I was little my uncle had a huge adams apple. He told me he'd swallowed a marble.
i used to think that when people said their legs fell asleep it meant that their legs were actually getting rest, so when mine fell asleep, i would try not to disturb it.
I used to believe that small people lived behind your eyes. They poured buckets of water out when you cried and controlled your eyes by moving the stems back and forth.
My Mum once told me that the ink in ball-point pens was poisonous, and that if I wrote on my skin, the poison would soak through the skin and kill me. I still believed it when I left university, and even today I never, ever, write phone numbers or reminders on the back of my hand (I'm 35). Old habits die hard...
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I used to think that if you closed your eyes, you convince others that you were blind.
