My uncle told me if you twist your bellybutton, your bum will fall off, I was terrified!
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When I was four or five, I enjoyed focusing and unfocusing my eyes. Not crossing them, just making things blurry. I thought people could see when I was doing this, and would get mad if they caught me. Once, I even sat my parents down and said "Ok. I have a confession. I can do this." They were very confused.
I believed that men and women were the same without pants, except that women did not have testicles, just the penis.
I used to believe that we are lice on some giant's head.. and the earthquakes happened when he moved around.. and it rained when he showered. hmm.. I was amazed to see this on south park.. episode: Lice Capades.. the memories flashed back..
I am right handed I believed the left hand was evil. and i'd pretend the right hand beating the left hand cos it was evil..hehe
When i was only three I saw an old movie where people had random glass eyes or something and i thought most people had glass eyes cause it made sense eyes are very sensitive. So i would try to poke people in the eyes cause i wanted to see if they had one.
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When I was about 4 or 5, I used to believe that instead of bones, we had metal pipes.
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When I was a child, I used to believe that armpits were private parts
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My younger brother used to believe that the only reason I had braces was to keep my teeth from falling out of my mouth.
My mother once told me that your belly button was a tube directly connected to your stomach. If you picked at your belly button too much, you would open the tube and your would bleed to death (she was a very frighting mother). She said that this happened to a young boy she knew when she was a child. By 4th grade I started to figure out what belly buttons are for, but I still thought it was possible to die from belly button opening. It was only in 7th grade Health class that I completely learned that belly buttons are just scars, and to this day I like by dad better.
I used to believe that after I cut my barbie's hair, they will grow again. They've never grown :(
when i was young and one of my teeth where lose i was horrified by the idea that i could swallow my tooth while i slept at night, and i was positive that i would unless i hung my head downward over the side of the bed so it would fall on the floor. but between the boogeyman under my bed and swallowing my tooth i slept very uncomfortable night between hiding under my blankets and hanging my head downwards as best i could.
When I was younger, I used to believe that your hair was colored by an ink pot inside your head and that the reason people's hair turns grey or white as they get older was that the ink pot eventually ran out of ink. When I came up with this theory, I was very afraid to do handstands anymore, for fear of spilling my ink pot!
This is not my belief, but a boy at my school told me he hadn't found out that girls have nipples until only a couple of years a ago (he was about 14?). He thought only men had nipples, not women. I wonder how he couldn't have known!? And for so long!
When I was younger, I never brushed my hair. Now, when I was younger, I had this uncle who was incredibly bald. (Actually, he's still alive, and still quite bald.) My parents told me that when he was younger, he never brushed his hair, so it all fell out, and that mine would too. Needless to say, my hair brushing increased exponentially.
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Up until i was about 8, I thought that your heart was like a locket and you had pictures of the people you love in it. My mom thinks its adorable.
when I was 4 my parents and I were watching a movie and the guy in the movie said something about tits so I asked mom what a tit was and she told me "the brown parts on a girls chest 'and I thought actuall brown spot all over my stomach and chest and I was oh no I dont have tits and I begged mom to take me to the dr cause I though something was wrong with me haha
I used to think the scandalous part of wearing a bikini was that it showed your belly button, which I guess is actually true to an extent. But I thought the belly button was to a lesser extent, a "private part."
When I was a child. I used to believe that there were little elves (like the Keebler elves) that operated my body. And when I was sick, it was because the elves were fighting.
I used to believe that men who had lots of facial hair were covering up the fact that they didn't have any chins. I used to be afraid of hugging my uncle, or accidentally reaching up into his beard because I thought I'd find something unpleasant!