When I was three or four, I used to think that every part of your body that can move had bones in it. So, I thought that all of my hairs had tiny individual bones in them like they were small tails.
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When I was in about 6th grade, it was 'cool' to have a little bit of your hair running into the corner of your mouth. Lots of girls stopped when the rumor started going around that it would give you worms. I don't know which was dorkier - thinking it was cool, believing the worm theory, or the pitiful girls whose hair was so short that they actually had to distort their mouths to get it to stretch that far - like me. =8O
My best friend as a kid was goofing around on a skateboard on my driveway and took a nasty spill. I didn't see how badly he was hurt, as I immediately ran to get my mum. She fixed him up and took him home, and told me that he had "ripped his lip" or something like that. I assumed she meant that his lips had entirely come off, and asked to see them.
at the age of 5 i believed that you had to learn to move your eyes with out moving your head. i thought every time my eyes moved, my head moved and my eyes stayed locked straight ahead.i was quite mad atmy little brother when he "learned" how first. i then stood in front of the miror until bedtime(approx.45 mins.)and kept my eyes glued on my face and turned my haed.i practiced every day, and if some one was in the bathroom, id hold my head quite firmly with my hands,and lok at 1 object on my right, then my left, for 5 minutes. this stopped while on vacation and i forgot. I got home and realized i had "learned" how.
My nephew, age four, recently told me that eyebrows are the work of the devil, who created them so people could make angry and mean faces. Otherwise, we'd be happy and good all the time.
I used to believe that the "outie" belly button shows that there is an egg inside you , and so when you had sex the belly button went in saying that you would have a baby-I was terrified when my cousin told my that! and when my belly button finally went in i was mortified!
I used to believe that a soul was a cone-shaped pearly object located somehwere in the chest cavity between the rib cage and lungs. I have no idea from where this image stems.
When I was little I couldn't figure out how people had earrings on their ears. I vaguely thought people had holes punched in their ears, but discarded that idea almost immediately. "Why would people punch holes in their ears?" I thought. I do not know when I learned the truth. Surprisingly enough, I now have my ears pierced!
When i was in second grade, a lot of kids in my class liked to say this one stupid joke.
One kid would ask another kid where someone or something was, and they would respond, "Up your butt and around the corner."
I actually believed that there was a corner up your butt. I thought that there was a bunch of corners, turns, stairs, doors, hallways... like a maze.
I used to think that my body was actually a mechanized vehicle, which was controlled by tiny people in my head and throughout my body. A man in a suit controls my body movements. Also, I thought that different parts of my body were housing different things. I thought my stomach was the cafeteria for the crew (LOL.) I also believed that whenever i got cut, the skin would be repaired by little engineers inside my skin. Finally learned the truth when we studied the human body in 8th grade.
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when i was little, like when you actually understand what your mom was saying, she told me if i didn't eat all my food at dinner time i would get freckles!?
when my coloured friends daughter was much younger, she used to think that she would turn completely white like most of her friends as she gets older. She used to say things like, "When I turn white I'm going to be a popstar." Bless her, she's older now and just looks back and laughs!
My father is color blind, and his color blindness was always described to me as not being able to see pink. So one day, I had on my favorite pink dress with flowers in the middle, and I went to ask my dad how it looked. He looked at me a little weird, and then said, "Is it a pink dress?" I freaked out and ran out of the room because I thought he could see through the color pink, and all he saw was me wearing underwear and flowers.
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if i left my hair hanging outside of the quilts the ghosts would chop it off
i used to believe that animals nursed their offspring throught their belly buttons after watching some show on discovery channel about gorillas. it showed a mother gorilla feeding a baby gorilla.
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My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....
when me and my sister were younger we used to chew on your hair, untill one day our grandmother saw us and said i saw on one of those documentarys a little girl died form chewing her hair it got into a big ball inside her stomach and we would die if we did it anymore, i was so scared not once has my hair ever gone in my mouth again!
i used yo believe that those washable markers could actually dye your hair and i use to like put that stuff in my hair in a way and well...obviously it didnt work
My neighbor used to believe that if her grandma touched her, she would get dirty. Her grandma's indian colored and she thought that her grandma didn't bathe very much so she was dirty.
I was told that if you touch your pupil five times you would go blind. To date I have only touched it twice, both times before hearing this. Even at 41, I am unwilling to test this theory.