When i was like six or seven years old, I once thought that when someone said something about "black people", it referred to their hair color, not their skin. Because of that, I thought that I was black, since I had black hair. I don't even know why I thought that, since I'm actually far from it!
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When I was 8, I used to believe that Specsavers (an optitions in the UK) had a glasses factory under their shop where they made glasses and they would put the glasses in a tube so the people working there could collect the glasses.
As a little kid,, I thought that my mom's purple hair was natural, and then i found out she dyed it
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I used to believe that the mole on my leg was from when my brother drew on it with a marker.
I thought highlights and lowlights in hair were always natural instead of dye, and I never could figure out how some people would have part of their hair blonde and part of it black without any of it being brown in-between.
I used to believe that everyone has a vagina, and that vaginas are called penises. I didn't know the word 'vagina'.
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My sister was convinced that men and women had balls because her sex-ed teacher told her so. I think she heard wrong.
My co-worker believed that one of the two testicles was actually at the head of the penis because they couldn't possibly both be at the bottom.
I used to believe that if I couldn't suck in my gut anymore, my belly would bulge out twice as much.
I used to think that pubic hair was "public" hair and it didn't make any sense because pubic hair is private, not public
I used to think that white people were white because they ate too much vanilla. I'm black and i saw a white person for the first time at walmart when i was 5, and i shouted "look mommy, vanilla people!"
When i was 5, i thought that you could lick your elbow....
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I believed that there was such thing as a piano donor just like an organ donor. That was when i had no idea what an organ donor was.
I used to think if you hung out with somebody who had nice hair, your hair would become as pretty as theirs- it would change color and style and look like theirs. I also used to talk to my hair to inspire it to look like their hair, but I guess it was never inspired.
Don't worry, I don't to it anymore.
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I used to believe that I really could have "all I could eat", but if I got too full, my belly button would pop out!
I used to believe that you could catch AIDS from just looking at a nud girl. Good thing I was WRONG
I used to believe that I could eat a lot in one sitting, but if I got too full, my belly button would pop into an outie!
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I was 7 and in summer the whole family used to spend the day at the village pools. I was really afraid of deep water, so I always swam in the small pool, where the water came up to my knee. One day I wanted to open my eyes underwater while snorkelling, because my brothers and cousins did it. But when I tried I thought that the water would hurt my eyes and could not separate the eyelids.
I used to believe that girls had no nipples. I just assumed that nipples were for boys, and girls just had bags of skin on their chests.
One time, I watched a video about puberty & growing up. It talked about how both male and female grow pubic hair and whatnot. Yet, the arrow wasn't that specific, and I thought pubic hair referred to ALL hair on the body, except eyebrows, eyelashes, and head hair. So, when my older sister made me massage her feet, I cringed and said,
"I just can't stand your pubic hair."
My sister and her friend died, and I was really confused. I later on found out that pubic hair refers to the PUBIC AREA ONLY, not the entire body.