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when i was young my mum told me that if i watched too much television that my eyes would go square - after that i used to have nightmares about my eyes turning into squares - i never watched tv for longer than 10 mins at a time!

My little brother thinks Dave Matthews is black. We've argued about this many times and he has been shown pictures of him, but he thinks I'm just trying to trick him.

i remember as a child i had received a sunburn and the resulting peeling became scary. i thought the peeling would continue until i looked like a halloween skeleton.

My babysitters once told me that if I used Avon's Silicone Glove hand lotion, it would make my chest grow bigger. I used to cry and beg them not to make me put it on my dry chapped hands.

At school I was walking with past someone with a headphone in one ear, one of my friends decided to go up and shout in this guy's ear. My friend must have done something to his hearing as the guy shoutd out "ow! My tampon" The whole school practically stopped and stared at him. Meanwhile I was rolling around on the floor with laughter as were my friends. The guy was convinced that tampon was another name for eardrum.

When I was three, I lived in Kenya. One day, I saw a bus full of black girls dressed in white dresses heading for Church. I told my mother "look at all the white children, mom!" because I believed that people were considered black or white based on the color of their clothing, not the color of their skin.

when my generation of cousins, etc were small, a certain female relative had several of us convinced that if our belly-buttons were ever untied, our butt-cracks would fall out.
it was a cruel game. ;-D

when the "toothfairy" came to my elmentary school she told the class that you needed to brush your teeth to remove germs. some how i got the notion that germs were gross little bugs & worms that ate holes into your teeth making cavities...i brushed A LOT!

As a young, näive white boy growing up in a small town in northeast Ohio, I used to think that when someone shook the hand of a Black/African-American/Colored/Negro person (this was back in the 60s, ok? -- edit if you must!), that the color would somehow come off their hand and stick on yours, though I was certain that it could be washed off.

My belief is similar to Pattys' about white and black people. I use to think that black people are only black because they ate alot of chocolate. I wanted to be black!

I used to play with my navel as a child, and my mom told me if I didn't stop rubbing my belly button it would burst, and I would fly around the room!! That sounded terrific so I wound up rubbing my belly button raw until a sore delveloped. I was very disappointed.

I used to believe my father was a different race than I am. I am caucasian, and I'm very fair-skinned. My father works outdoors, so he has a year-round "farmer tan" on his arms and face. I thought he was LITERALLY HALF African American.

When I was 5 or so, my Dad told my brother and I that our nipples were ham, and that if we were caught somewhere without any food, we could peel them off and eat them.

Fortunately, I never had to try that.

When I was a kid I used to believe that if you rubbed your eyeballs too hard that they would fall back into your head. This meant that you would no longer would be able to use them because they would be floating around inside your head.

My father had my brother and me convinced that if we unbuttoned our bellybuttons, our legs would fall off...for years, whenever I washed my bellybutton, I was so afraid that I would accidentally release the mechanism that held my legs on. My brother spent hours actually TRYING to unbutton his bellybutton, and was very disappointed when it didn't work.

I was told that, when something was stinking real bad, the stench would get in my mouth if I opened it... I almost threw up at the thought !
To this day I keep my mouth shut when I smell something disgusting.