When I was little I thought coloured people had white pubic hair because white people had dark pubic hair.
Crazy I know!!!
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My brother was always told by his Grandparents thet "If you unscrew your bellybutton, your bum would fall off"
It took him thill he was 12 before I (the younger sister) could convince him otherwise.
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When I was really little I thought that all kids were white and that people's skin changed color at puberty. I use to wonder what color I would turn out to be.
i used to believe that if you poked your belly button you would become invisible
one time when i was about 4 i poked my belly button then ran outside in the nude, until the girl next door (about 9 at the time) told me that she could still see me. I ran back inside very quickly.
At a family party recently, my seven-year-old cousin told me she could roll her eyes back in her head to see her brain. Playing along, I asked her what color it was. She informed me that it was red, white, and blue, because those are the colors of the flag in the country she lives in.
I used to believe that at night, ant were in my brian carrying out useless information. It ws really just my pulse I was hearing.
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When I was younger, I believed that because blind people were awake with their eyes closed, they slept with their eyes open.
when I was about 8-9 yrs old and was always at war with boys my age, I used to believe that men don't know what the female body is like and I would get angry with bra ads to let out such a secret!
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I used to believe that men urinated out of their belly buttons. I even tried it once.
When I was a kid, my older brother told me that black people were made that way on purpose. Like if you had a baby in the summer when you were tan, that baby would be born with a darker, sort of olive skin tone. And then when that baby grew up and had a kid, if it was in the summer and the mother was tan, that baby would be even darker, so of course if a darker-skinned person had a baby in the winter, the skin would be lighter.
Yup, I believed that a good portion of my life.
When i was a kid i hit my chin on a table and bit my tongue, jest enough to clause it to bleed. When i came home form the doctor's, i noticed the vertical line on my tongue. i thought it was a scar from biteing my tongue. i never wonderd why a horizontal bite wood clause a vertical scar.
I used to believe that when evermy heart pounded too hard that you could see it push against your chest. This also led me to believe that it was trying to escape 'cause it worked too hard.
As we all know, placing a Sea Shell to your ear allows your to hear the sound of the sea. Following the explanation to me of the phrase "I need a word in your shell-like"; which means a word in your ear, I believed you could listen to someone's inner monologue by placing your ear to theirs. Apparently I became quite a pest trying to do this whenever I didn't understand what was going on.
i was scared by my grandmothers false teeth i thought they would bite you
One summer when I was about 6 my mom and I were sitting outside. She was wearing shorts and when she stood up I noticed she had a bunch of little dents on the back of her thighs (cellulite). I didn't know what they were so I asked, "Mama, were you sitting on rocks?" She told me she was, so for the longest time I thought the dents on people's legs were from sitting on rocks and they were only temporary! :)
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I used to believe I had really good eyesight before I got glasses. I thought the blurry specs were bacteria. Oh, yes, when I was 8, I could see bacteria.
When I was little, I had this thing where I believed if someone touched you, they could read your mind. I was terrified of people being able to read my mind, so I shied away and hated being touched.
... It still kind of affects me today. xD
Way before I learned left and right, I always worried because I thought your left and right would always be changing depending on what direction you faced. I thought it would be so confusing to remember which was your left and which was your right.
I came to believe after a few trips to the beach when I was little, that only little kids had outie belly buttons, and when you grew up, it would go in. I really freaked out when mine didn't go in after a few years, and my friends all had innie belly buttons!
I went to visit my best friend at her home a few years back. We were getting ready to go to dinner and I proclaimed that I wanted to change into a dress because my pants were making my belly button hurt. My friend asked me "What does it feel like?" I replied, "Like a pinch I guess." She then ran over to me looking at my belly button. Puzzled I asked her what she was doing- This is what she told me " Kevin (Her fiance) told me that when they cut your cord they put in one stitch, I already pulled mine out-Looked like on little thread. Somtime if its in there to long it starts to hurt, I bet yours needs to be pulled out." I nearly hit the floor laughing. I told her that I had already pulled mine out and that wasnt the cause of my pain. -I didnt have the heart to tell her. Sad thing is.... We are alot older than the age of a person you would expect to her this from lol