When I was little, my cat clawed me across the eye. I freaked out and thought my eye ball was bleeding but my mom told me that was impossible because the human eye 'blink' is this fastest thing in the world and nothing could touch it.
I use to poke myself in the eye...a lot.
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I used to believe that if you unscrewed your belly button, your butt would fall off.
I used to believe that if I breathed through my mouth too much my nose would stop working and I wouldn't be able to breathe through it ever again.
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Since all the smart people in the cartoons I would watch wore glasses, I assumed that my dad was smarter than my mom, since he wore glasses and she did not.
I used to think that because people always referred to losing teeth as the roots coming out, there were tiny trees in my mouth. So one day I lost my tooth and I screamed "NO, MY TREE WILL DIE NOW!!!"
When I was little, my mom told me that my hair was always tangled up in the morning because a rat played in my hair at night. I thought it was cute to have a little rat in my hair.
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I used to believe an "Ego" was a kind of hair style, similar to a mullet.
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I used to believe that a cow-lick meant that a cow had licked you when you were a baby.
i thought that outies were an on/off button
Up until I was 14, I believed that any liquid that went into one ear would come out the other if you were laying on your side. That's why I was unsure when I put ear medicine in there.
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I used to believe that your elbow was called your 'Elbone'
Because it's a bone, and when you bend your arm inwards it looks like the letter 'L'
When I was little my brother told me that he learned in health class that you have 3 layers of skin I thought that meant if I skinned my knee to many times riding my bike that I would run out of skin and have to wear band-aids for the rest of my life, so I was extra carefull from then on.
I used to believe that if I played around with my belly button too much, it would come undone and all my insides would fall out.
i used to beliveve my outie was an eyeball
When i was about five, i asked my mum why i couldn't feel my hair and she said that it was because it was made out of dead cells. a year or so later i found out that alcohol killed brain cells. I figured that hair must be those dead brain cells killed by alcohol so if you wanted long hair you should get drunk alot.
until last summer, my sister thought that girls had 3 ovaries... geez
shes 15
I used to help my mom cook dinner every night. For the longest time I thought that people's "guts" were in a little plastic bag inside of them, just like the giblet bag in the chickens my mom would make for dinner.
As a kid, I couldn't understand how people could move their eyeballs around. When I looked in the mirror, they were always pointed straight at the mirror. I even asked other kids how they moved their eyes like that. They only looked at me with bewildered expressions, or infuriatingly rolled their eyes at me.
However, the flipside of this is that I didn't think people could tell I was looking at them if my head wasn't pointed straight at them. I was so sneaky.
This all fell apart when a teacher put me into timeout because I rolled my eyes when she told me to stop doing some stupid thing. At first I didn't understand what had happened. Over the course of my timeout, I pieced all this eye business together.
I agree, when I was a kid showing your belly button was taboo it seemed. Had to becovered at all time and in fact they WERe aribrushed out of pics in store catalogues !
When I was like 6 I went to a gym/club with my mom. There were these tanning booths, and I asked what they were, and my mom told me they made people dark- I don't remember if she said dark, or black, but I always thought after that that there was a machine someone could go in if they wanted to turn black.