i thought that scince "itch" rhymes with "which" the 2 were connectd. I always imagined a little pack of witches, on brooms, dressed in black, about half a millimeter tall, would flyaround, and when they got tired, they would land on you, and you'd itch.
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When we were younger, my brother and I would fight and my mom would always tell us that we made her so mad she wanted to pull her hair out. Until I got older, I would see the hair in the shower drain and think that my mom actually WAS pulling her hair out because we made her so mad!
When i was in my early teens my friend and I always made fun of how white I was, so one day i was teasing her about a huge birthmark she has that streches along her right leg. She looked me straight in the eye and told me that that part of her was mexican thats why its like that. I about died laughing.
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I didn't know whether nail files were supposed to make your nails sharper or duller.
I used to think that if you watched tv close up for a very long time your eyes would actually turn square shaped, and that this had happened to people that wear square glasses! I was so relieved when my dad told me that it wasn't true!
You know blondes when they swim in clorine for a long time their hair turns green!? Well, I believed that brunettes hair turned purple with too much clorine! weird!
File this one under 'misinformed thanks to parents'... When I hit puberty and started getting hair under my arms and on my legs I thought I was just different than the other girls in my gym class (who, of course, had nice parents and had already started shaving). Its SO embarassing now that, in retrospect, I recall being asked if I was french or gay. SAD SAD SAD... Parents, take a lesson from my humiliation... tell your kids about shaving when they reach junior high.
I also remembered thinking I didn't want to shave for a while since my grandma one time had told me how older ladies these days don't have to shave since they didn't as young ladies, their hair didn't grow in as thick as young ladies today. Oh well. I still blame my parents :-)
when i was little i belived when you were born the first thing you would look at would be the color of your eyes. Because i have Brown eyes for the longest time i thought i had looked at poop when i first opened my eyes!
When I was about 4 or 5, my Mother was telling me about weddings. she said 'you hold your flowers there...' + clasped her hands near her belly button. So I assumed you must shove the stalks down your belly button, as it was a purpose-made rest for a wedding bouquet.
When I was little, my sister had her ears peirced and I wanted them done but I was too young. So one day I asked her if I could change them for her. She went on and told me this whole story when a little girl had her sister change her earrings for her and her heasd fell off.. and I was scared to death for months.
One day I was hanging out with my little sister and saw that there was dark stuff in her belly button. I asked her what it was. She replied, "What do you mean? It's my umbilical cord!" Apparently, she had not been washing the "umbilical cord" out of her belly button for the past 25 years cause she thought the built up funk was her umbilical cord. Gross!
when my sister was born i remember her having a shrivelled up bellybutton/umbilical cord (that i thought was a raisin) that seemed to disappear after a while. i assumed it must retract into the body. i then spent the next 3 years digging for my 'raisin' that was stuck in my bellybutton. i never got it out.
When i was younger, my gradfather told me that if i was to stick my finger in my belly button and twist, my legs would fall off. I did not hardly ever touch my belly button till I was 13 years old. That was when he told me the truth!
When I was in grade school, we were comparing belly buttons. I asked one of the boys (much older than the rest of us) to show me his.
He frowned and said "I don't have one.....I was adopted" with a perfectly straight face! A month later, I made a real idiot of myself when I announced this revelation in health class!
I remember being in pre-K and I thought that when I closed my eyes and saw darkness that everyone saw the same darkenss. And I used to lie on my cot during nape time, blinking my eyes slowly and quickly just to confuse everyone. I just knew everyone was saying, "Who is turning the lights on and off."
Funny, how I knew to say lights, even though I thought it was my eyes...
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When i was little i believed if i picked the scab where my injection had been it would not work as it was supposed to!! how silly was i!!
My little sister used to believe that people with brown or black skin were made out of chocolate. I assume she also thought people with white skin were made of vanilla.
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I used to think that instead of bones and blood and tissue that you body was made up of tuna.
After reading the story The Twits by Roald Dalh I thought that if my stomach was itchy it must mean I am dirty because that is what its says in the book. To this day eveytime my stomach gets an itch I think of that book!
I used to believe that mice lived in our bodies. They controlled where you looked, if you had an itch, it was the mice poking a stick where you had to itch, etc. This lasted for years until I started learning about the body.