body parts

When I was little, I once saw this girl who had a protruding belly button. I was so jealous of her as I thought it was better than having a hole and thought she was blessed.

One evening I was mentioning to my wife that my boss was going to have laser eye surgery. My six year old son overheard and interrupted with, "Cool! Is your boss gonna blast bad guys with his laser eyes?"

A Tv commercial when I was a kid featured a western actor talking about his job and jumping off a rooftop onto his horse. When the director called cut the actor said "Oh my hemorroids" (sp?) and went on to sell whatever product the ad was for. So because of that commercial I used to believe that the technical name for everyones back side was "hemorroids" and I called my own ass my "hemorroids" several times between the ages of 4 and 5 before being told not to.

i used to believe that snakes could come out of your butt if you didnt bathe for awhile

I used to chew my hair a lot (not sure why...), until an older friend of mine told me that you shouldn't chew your hair because if you swallowed too many hairs you'd get a hairball in your stomach, and have to have surgery to get it removed.

I woke my dad up that night crying because I'd swallowed a hair and thought I was going to have to have surgery...

When I was ten I had about a dozen warts on one of my arms and another one on my leg. Anyway, I can remember thinking that warts are caused when blowflies bite you. I also thought that the name of those tiny tumours which are caused by Human papillomavirus (HPV) was spelt 'worts'.

When I was young I strongly believed that white people SHOULD NOT shave off all their hair or they would die. It was because I had never seen a bold-headed white person before, I saw very little of white paople then.

i used to believe that our buttocks are hollow and that all our internal organs i.e are stomach, liver, kidneys, lungs etc are placed there...now as a biology postgraduate i know better!!

When we were kids, my older sister and I would take our bath together. And our favorite game was to "shave" foam off our backs with our dad's razor, the cap on obviously. But once, I used the razor on my arm without the cap. So as to prevent me from doing it again, my sister told me that I would turn into a very hairy monster. She even convinced me that horns were growing as she was speaking to me, I could feel them!
I called my mother for help, asking her to tell my sister that it wasn't true but my mum confirmed my sister's theory... The following night, I stayed awake, waiting for my body to transform into a beast.

we used to believe that when we sneezed a tiny bit of our brain fell out! and we got dumber. so we used to try not to sneeze and put our fingers up our nose to prevent sneezing! those were the days!!

when i was a little girl.. i always believed that black people had blue blood and white people had red because our skin colour was pink and theirs was a very dark blue

i used to think that black people have black skellitons

I used to think that doing a haircut is easy, and letting a trained hairdresser do it is simply a social ritual. The truth revealed when I tried to cut my little sister's hair.

When I heard the term "broken heart", I thought the heart was literaly brocken or cracked. I thought if I fell out of a tree, I might break my heart. (like break my arm or leg). A conversation could go like this: "He fell out of a second-story window and broke his heart."

When I was very young, the nuns at school told us that it was a sin to touch yourself except when you were bathing. I had no idea what they meant, and for a time I tried to keep my hands away from the rest of me.

When I was little I used to be best friends with this black girl. She used to get weaves put in her hair and her mom would melt the ends to keep them from coming undone if they were braided. So for the longest time I always thought that black people's hair could be melted!