My Mum always made me wash my hair after I got it cut. She told me that it bled after a haircut so I should wash it straight away! I now realise it was so my loose hair would not go all over her couch!
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I believed that people who had blue eyes saw everything with a blue tint, and people who had green eyes saw everything with a green tint (kind of like sunglasses). I grew up in an urban area, where, let's say everyone had brown eyes - so they were the norm and could see all colors.
I used to think that if you flipped your eyelids inside out they would get stuck. I also used to think that rolling your eyes would cause them to get stuck in the back of your head.
As a young white child, I lived in an area that was largely black in population. I truly believed, in the most innocent way that black children were made out of chocolate. Those with the darker skin were dark chocolate, and the lighter skinned children were milk-chocolate. How I longed to be a black child!
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I had a bruise on my leg when I was about four, and I thought my leg was going to get black, rot, and fall off...just like bananas do
When I was little I knew a man who were very little. He was not like the rest of us. I belived that when he was born he came out of the bellybottom.
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when i was little i used to think that tall people were always feeling dizzy because they would look down and saw the ground too far away from their heads.
i once told my little sister that if you attach a cotton bud to a drill machine...you could clean your ears better...she actually beleived it
When I first heard that it was possible to break a limb, I thought you could break an arm or a leg right off. I thought you'd grow a new one; it would start growing back really small, and get bigger and bigger until it was normal sized.
I also remember the first time my Dad said 'your eyes were bigger than your stomach', and I thought my eyes did get, momentarily, really huge...
i remember the first time i realized i was different colour (around 5 y/o) then the other kids, (i'm biracial and grew up in a completely white neighbourhood)
i asked my grandmother why i was different (not know what to say) she said i was "left in the oven too long". i actually believed that for quite sometime.
my cousin once asked to a man whith lots of hair in his chest, "are you an animal?"
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I thought liposuction was squeezing the fat out of your bellybutton. Too bad it's not that easy...
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when i was little, i used to believe that there were two kinds of girls: the ones that were born with hair fringe and the others that weren´t.
When I was a child, I saw a picture of a person covered in bugs on tv. For the longest time I believed our skin was made of millions of tiny little insects. It wasn't until my teen age years when I saw another show with a man covered in bees did I realize what I had sen as a youngster was probably something similiar. To this day though, I still get a nasty feeling when hair on my body bristles.
When I was 5 my cousin told me that if you unscrew your belly button your bum would fall off. For about 2 years I tried to unscrew the belly button until I learned in school about the umbilical cord.
when i was little i went to the dentist for a tooth out. when i got out i had all this red stuff in my mouth that tasted funny and my mum told me it was strawberry ribena. i never drank it again and it wasn't until a few years ago mum told me it was actully blood. i am now 23.
When I was small my Grandfather told me that the reason I had freckles was from throwing pebbles in the sewer!
When I was a kid, I used to believe there were only 2 races: black people and white people. Because I knew I wasn't white, I thought I was black. I'm actually Persian.
When I was a kid, my grandfather always used to ask me where I got my nasty brown eyes from... So I thought that having brown eyes was something ugly and bad... I think I must have been in my teens when I realized that my grandfather had brown eyes himself, and was actually proud of the fact that I had brown eyes...
I used to blieve that if you crossed your eyes and the wind changed direction, then your eyes would stay like that forever