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when i was younger, in all the gushers commercials when the kids ate gushers, their head would turn into an orange/watermelon etc. but the commercials were like that for years . so up until i was 9 i refused to eat gushers because i was afraid that if i did my head would turn into a gigantic piece of fruit and i wouldn't be able to turn it back

my grandpa had a hole in his belly button from surgery that didnt heal and it looks a lot like a piercing hole so he always told us it was pieced and would put grandma's earing in as a gag. me and my sister loved it and grandma would get embarassed.

For a few weeks (when I was around 14!), I doubted the existance of people with red hair. It just seemed like, whenever I thought about it, there was no one with red hair around me at the time.

When I was young (like 3 & 4 yrs old) and would have ear infections, my mom would take me to the doctor...the doctor would confirm that, yes, I did have an ear infection, and that it was because Bert and Ernie (from Sesame Street) were in there airing their dirty socks. I truly believed that Bert and Ernie did their laundry in my head. I'm not sure how long it took me to realize it wasn't true...

i used to believe that testacles were tentacles (what is it with little kids and hearing things wrong. they should be given dictionaries - seriously)

i thought that guys must have a lot of trouble fitting their tentacles into their undies.

it would definitely have explained the bulge that most guys seem to have.

ew.

When i was young, up to the age of about 8 or so, i misheard when people said taste buds and thought that they were actually called taste 'bugs'. I thought that we all had these black beetles crawling around inside our tongues, tasting the food we ate and sending messages to our body saying whether the food was yummy or gross.
I would sometimes squeeze my tongue and thought i could feel them in there.

Once when i was looking at my tongue in the mirror and i saw all these little red dots on top of it (REAL taste buds) i thought i had a disease!
i asked my older sister and she told me it wasn't a disease because she had the same thing. I was like,
"We've both got the tongue disease! we'll have to keep our mouths closed forever so no one else gets it."
I was hysterical until she explained to my poor, uninformed mind all about taste 'buds'.

Evers since i can remember up until i was 7, i thought that all you could see was the color that your eyes were. (for ex.: if u had brown eyes, you could only see brown) i thought i was special because i didn't walk around seeing blue everything. i learned about rods and cones when i was 8.

I used to believe that when the school nurse checked us all for head lice, I thought they were saying they wanted to check us for "Head-Lights" After that, I really wanted to stick around and see if they found the freak kid with a couple of built-in fog lamps stowed away or something.

I have a mole on my stomach and not until a few years ago did I realize that it really was a MOLE... not the result of a cockroach bite from my baby years. I'm 17 years old.

When I was 2 my younger brother was born. I remember waiting for his penis to fall off like his umbilical cord (after all mine did, RIGHT?). I even remember explaining to our babysitter that his umbilical cord fell off, so his penis needed to fall off too! How she managed to continue changing his diaper and not fall on the ground laughing, I'll never know.

When I was 8 or so, I found this thing of dental temporary filling material in my paren'ts bathroom. But it just said filling material. There was a white, clay like material inside. So I thought areas of your body you rubbrd it on would get bigger. I rubbed it all over my breasts. Then, when I was about 12, I saw my dad putting it in his tooth and realized all at once that there was a misunderstanding.

as a child i would always see my mother put on chapstick.one day i asked why she did that. she said it was to fix her lips when they were chapped, hence the name. so i then asumed that chapstick was someone else's lips liquified and put into those little tubes. she never quite understood why i refused to use it after that day.

You know how your skin peels off when you've had a sunburn or when you get a blister or anything like that? Well I believed that if you peeled the skin enough, you would eventually peel through to the bone.

I used to bite my nails a lot when I was young. Well, I still do.
:P
But my aunt once scared the shit out of me by telling me that one day a huge tree will grow out of my mouth which would have nails dangling to it instead of fruits.
:|
I used to cry day and night.
But I still couldn't stop biting my nails.
It's addictive, you know.

I have second degree burn scars on my arm from pulling a hot cup of tea down on myself when I was a toddler. I don't remember actually doing this (thank goodness), so they were something of a mystery to me when I was little.

Somehow I got it into my head that I was burned by lava. I had a whole scenario worked out in my head with my family and I jumping from island to island in a river of lava when some of it splashed up and burned me.

Now, I also had a lot of problems with my ears when I was little (as most kids do), so one day my doctor was flushing out my ears and had to use a pair of tweezers to get a piece of hardened red-ish wax from my ear. Belief confirmed! Obviously this was a bit of lava that had splashed into my ear at the same time I burned my arm.

When I was 7, I asked my mother what a bellybutton is, and she told me that the bellybutton was a little hole that would open if you weren't well mannered; and a little after she told me that, I freaked out, since my belly button sticks out, and then I asked my mother what happens when the hole opens all the way, and she told me that a little fairy would pop out from the hole, who was resting in the stomach, and the fairy would cast a spell that gave you freckles.
After she told me that, I was afraid of kids with feckles, but then I found how silly it was..