i used to think that when you chewed on ur the ends of your hair if you accidently swallowed a peice it would go to your heart and rap around it so tight that your heart would explode.
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I used to believe there were creatures living in my pillow called snarlies that made the tangles in my hair while I was sleeping. My parents told me this.
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I used to believe bobby pins were named after my father.
My son hated to get dirty when he was little. When he was about 16 months old we went to the grocery store, and passed a black lady who stopped to speak with me and my son...when she spoke to him and reached out her hand to him, he looked at me and asked before taking her hand "dirty?". We laughed so hard we had to sit down.
My brother once told me that if i or someone else poked my belly button. I would explode!
I used to believe that the vein that is under your tongue was called a "clucker" which is what made the noise when you "cluck" your tongue, and since chickens can make that sound, I thought since they were smaller the red gullet was their clucker
When I was younger, I used to believe that everyone who had glasses had a different perscription, and it was very rare to find someone with the same perscription.
Then I found out I just had really bad eyes and that's why I couldn't see out of my friends' glasses.
I used to belive that when your foot "falls asleep" it was salt running over your foot. When my mom told me my foot fell asleep i started shaking it to wake it up. When my brother was around i would say "shhhhhhhh my foot is sleeping".
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haha one time when i was like 7-9, my sister told me if i ever tried to shave my legs at my age then blood would sqirt EVERYWHERE and id almost die. she said i could only shave my legs until i got older so that wouldnt happen
Fair skinned with freckles, I believed for years that as I grew bigger, my freckles would also grow bigger, and one day I would have a marvelous tan. Somedays, I still want to believe it!
if you bite or chew on yor hair, you would get worms
My grandpa used to tell me that if he unscrewed my belly button, my butt would fall off. He would then chase me around with his power drill! Now I do it to my son!!!
I used to belive that ballet dancers had flat toes, so when they put on their shoes they would fit right.
Due to a lack of respect for my mother when I was much younger, my grandmother told me, that when I stick out my tongue to my mother at exactly 12.00 pm/am, I would freeze forever with that face (while my tongue is out)..I was so scared, I have never done it again..
i remember when i was around 5 my older sister who was 10 put glue on her hands and let it dry. i thought it was real dead skin and she told me it was. i got scared and went in my room and locked it then she told me her dead skin that came off was going to crawl under my door and attack me. i believed this.. i know weird! haha
When angry with my mother, I would hold my thumb close to one eye and close the other. Voila, Mom disappeared!
I was told that if Someone was to put a finger in my Belly button and twist it around my BUM would fall off.
When i was about 4 I used to believe that belly buttons were the entrance for a tiny little man, dressed in overalls and armed with a sweeping brush,who came every night and cleared away the paper sruck to sweets and toffees that I had eaten.
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When I first got glasses I was five years old, and I insisted on keeping them on at night, so I could see my dreams better
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When I was little, I used to think your booty was another word for foot since boots go on feet. When the song "Shake your Booty" came on I would shake my foot.