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I was born with white/blond hair, and I mean white!!! When I was little my mother thought there was dirt on my scalp b/c my roots looked dark, she would scrub & scrub until finally she realized that my hair was getting darker! So, for many years I would cower away when someone complemented me on my hair 'cause I thought it was dirty!!!!

When i was little i used to chew the ends of my hair(gross i know!) and my mum used to te me that if i did it my hair would turn in to snakes in my tummy and eat me insides. i dont think i ever did it again.

Tell me I was not the ONLY kid who BELIEVED that If I made a face, it would freeze that way forever.... And along with that was the crossing of the eyes.....

when i was 4 or 5 my mother and grandmother used to tell me that when i told a lie my tounge would turn black. so i would tell a lie and then run to a mirror. i would then go ask one of them if i just told a lie why wasn't my tounge black? they said that only parents and grand parents can see it. i believed this untill i was 10

I used to believe that after eating food it would come out of tiny holes at the end of my toes. This was the reason why shoes became too small and new ones were required!

My sister and I thought that white people were vanilla and black people were chocolate (like ice cream). My mom always had to shut us up in the store when we said "look, chocolate people!" (I was very young....) But hey, we were vanilla and wanted to be chocolate.

My cousin told me that when you lie you get crosses in your eyes. I think I believed that for about a week, because I was a big liar and would try to lie to myself in the mirror to see if i could see any crosses. Unless he meant that you would go cross-eyed if you lied too much. It's hard to understand his english sometimes.

I used to think that my soul was my throat.. either located there, or that it actually was my throat... i'm not sure. But i thought you could rip it out, like on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I think I tried this on my little brother, but i'm not sure.

Until I was approximately a junior in high school I thought that if you pulled the top part of your eye lid up and the bottom part of your eye lid down and then looked down at the floor your eye would fall out.

I used to be horribly scared of people (inretrospect, men) with beards of any kind. They all looked quite scarry to me. I believed that they were all 'bad'.


My aunt had several kids, all older than me, and one of them, to this day, has a long, unkept beard. His brothers used to give me a water gun and convince me to go downstairs to the basement and 'shoot' their bearded brother.

I got over my fear when he gave me a plush bunny rabbit and let me in to his room (which I still have today).

Until I was about 12 I used to believe that girls could get hairballs and choke from sucking on their hair.

My Mom used to tell me that she could take a screwdriver and unscrew our belly buttons and our legs would fall off. But I always had a great sensitivity in my belly button and couldn't stand for it to be touched.

I used to believe that if cutting your arm through or any other part of the body, the limps would be made out of different kind of saussages, like salami,etc. I then thought, hey would it not be practical, you never needed to be hungry, for you would have your food always next to you.

When people told me the Royal Family had blue blood, I actually thought that they had blue blood. I also thought that 'air guitar' was actually a type of guitar

My grandma once told me never to touch my belly button, because if I did, my stomach would explode. It gave me a vision of my stomach ripping apart and gallons of blood gushing out. Of course, I didn't really even believe that what she said was true at the time (I had touched my belly button many times before) but it somehow scarred me, and to this day I can't stand to have anyone or anything touch my belly button.

I used to think that if, after losing a tooth, I didn't touch the gap with the tounge or toothbrush or anything, it would grow in as a gold tooth, and that was the reason people in movies and cartoons had gold teeth. I wanted a gold tooth, but I never managed to keep my fingers out of my mouth after losing a tooth.