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I used to believe that people had one good ear and one bad ear. I couldn't hear in my left ear, and I thought it was completely normal. Then one day I saw my older sister switch the telephone receiver to her "other" ear! I was completely stunned! I must've been in second grade and I could not understand how she could do that. I asked my mom, and she explained to me that I couldn't hear in my left ear because of an ear infection years earlier...

When I was little I used to think that when I flossed or brushed my teeth, if there were any specks of food on the brush or floss, that it was the cavity creatures from the toothpaste commercials.

I'm 23 now, but when I was a little boy I used to think that black people were black because they got too much sun tan.

After seeing my Grandma take out her false teeth, I believed that I could take out my own. I spent countless hours in front of the bathroom mirror trying to figure this out. Until someone clued me in.

I used to think that when you got some small piece of crud in your eye that it didn't fall or get washed out eventually, it just went into some kind of small repositoiry inside the eye socket and it stayed there your entire life. Not unreasonable for a kid to think that since you hardly ever see what was stuck in your eye even afterwards, do you? I figured if the thing ever filled up then you would really be in for serious eye injury since there would be no place for the next thing that got into your eye to go.

Untill the day my mother was born, my grandmother believed that the birth of a child was through her belly button!

I didn't know a lot of black people as a kid, but somehow I got the impression they were composed, at least in some part by chocolate. When I was about 4, I turned a corner in the library and there was a tell black man. I blurted out with delight, "hi chocolate face!!!" My mother was mortified. The guy just laughed.

I played the "I got your nose" game w/ my little brother when he was around 4. He really thought I had his nose, and begged that I give it back, so I put my thumb/"his nose" into my mouth, and pretended to eat and swallow it. He started crying and i had to get a mirror to show him his nose was still there.

When I was small kid my older brother told me that if you stomped on the ground too hard both your eyes would pop out of your head at the same time getting smaller and smaller like a nesting doll..

I used to think that when my mom said "Bare skin" she meant "hair as a bear" skin.

My uncle once told me that God gave us belly buttons as a place to put our bubble gum while we ate ice cream. The next time I had ice cream I tried it. What a sticky mess!

I once asked my dad why boys grew an adams apple and girls didn't. He said that when my brother gets to be a certain age he'll make him swallow an apple, it'll eventually shrink and get stuck there forever. I went and told my brother I was glad I was a girl!

I you used to think if you masterbate to much you would grow hair on your palms.

When i was younger i had this plastic electric drill, that for some odd reason i liked to stick it in my belly button. My mom told me that if i kept doing that i would unscrew my belly button and my tush would fall off.

My mother had 5 children, including me. Since I knew that the belly button had something to do with birth, until I was, say, about 10 ys old I believed my mom had 5 belly buttons, one for each of her children. And it was not easy to see your mom naked in those times, so I kept believing it for a good while.

My mother once told me a story about a boy who had fallen face down on the grass. A seed got into his eye and later he grew a marigold out of it. I spent years terrified of getting "airborne marigold seeds" inside mine!