I thought for a long time that it was against the rules to put your face in your hands until you were 10 years old.
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When my sister was small, she saw my mother take out her dentures, and tried to take her own teeth out. When they wouldn't come out, she was upset because hers were"nailed on" - she believed she was the only one whose teeth didn't come out on command!
when I was little I thought that if you cut a person in half, it would be red meat, bone and flies.
well... when I was around 6 or 7 years old I used to believe that only men had hair that grew on their bodies. Imagine
my surprise when at age 10 or 11 some other kids I was playing with, in thicket near a small creek (no pun intended), unearthed a worn "nudie" magazine they kept buried ! I thought the crotch areas of the ladies were smudged with dirt, at first. That was when the bubble bursted and my reality changed to accomodate this new information. This was in the early 70's when the hippie culture was in full bloom and being "natural" (hirsute in a hair suit) was "in". But I never liked it because it shocked me from what I had imagined prior to that, was the norm... that women were smooth as babies all over except the eyebrows, eye lashes and luxurious heads of hair. I am so glad that the trend toward women shaving down there and elsewhere has become "in fashion".
when i was young my brother had alot of dandruff, I asked him why his head was snowing and he got really mad. He still has alot of dandruff too!
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I used to believe that my sister unscrewed her head to get her necklace off!
I used to think you only had a limited supply of blood and it would freak me out when people told me they would donate blood. When someone would donate over and over again I would think that they were going to die soon because they were going to run out. I thought this because I would watch the news and hear of people dying of blood loss. So in my head 1 + 1 = 1.9.
When I was little, about 7, (I'm 15 now) my brother who was 13 at the time, (20 now) told me that if I ever went into his room he'd poke my belly button and I'd deflate like a balloon on the spot. I had been brave and poked it myself, but after going to him and telling him he was lying he said "only big brothers can do it".
My mom used to believe that you could pop your eyeballs out and then buy new ones at the store that came on cards like buttons do.
When I was little I used to like to put pieces of scotch tape on my face and arms. I thought it was neat that when you peeled it off, the dead skin would come off with it and make pretty patterns. My big sister got fed up with this, and told me that every place I would put tape on my body I would get cancer there! I never did it again.
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My grandfather was missing a finger, and he would often tell me that I bit it off as a child. I believed this for years.
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When i was a kid, i used to think that my dads moustache grew out of his nostrils
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if you have freckles it is because you didnt wash your face well enough
One of my uncles was born with the first two fingers on his left hand fused together. When my cousins and my sister and I were children, he would tell us that they got that way because when he husked corn on the cob, a piece of the "silk" had gotten stuck between his fingers. Even now, some fifty years later, I think of that EVERY time I husk corn on the cob.
When I was a child my sister told me that if your bellybutton opened. You would deflate and fly around the room like a balloon
When I was 3, my older brother told me that if I made a face then someone slapped me in the back I would be stuck with that face for the rest of my life. Of course, it didn't work if someone tripped you right after you were slapped in the back.
once when I was at the store with my dad and grandpa, I remember my grandpa buying a special toothbrush for his "false teeth". For whatever reason I interpreted "false" to mean "imaginary" and wondered why my grandfather needed a special toothbrush for his pretend teeth.
when i was small i though the more dirty you had your hair then head lice wouldnt want to stay there caus it was too dirty for them. boy was i wrong!
i used to believe that the vacuum cleaner would cut off my toes, and run away from my parents whenever they would vacuum the floor. i am still uncomfortable when someone is vacuuming close to my feet
I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.