My brother did not understand baldness as a child. One day at the mall, we were waiting behind a man who was bald in the center of his head, but still had hair around the sides and back.
Ever the polite boy, he asked my mother, "Why does that man have a hole in his head?"
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I used to believe that my grandfather was bald because a crow has licked his hair!
he used to say that alot! lol
When I was about four, I used to think everyone had a different amount of fingers. I was surprised to find that my parents had the same amount of fingers as me.
i used to belive that if you were in a room on your own then your soul will come out of your body,take all the fun out of you and then fly away with all the fun with him.I was about 7 or 8 when i thought the soul would come out of you and give you a game of chess,but he would always beat you,so the next time i tought i saw my soul i tried beatin it up with a firin pan but my dad came in so i hit him instead!
when i was about 6, i believed that if you didnt want bangs anymore, you had to cut them off very close to your head. i tried this theory out one day, which resulted in a trip to the hairdressers and a very strange hairstyle for a while after.
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I was told and actually believed that if my fringe hair covers my eyebrows, my eyebrows hair will drop and i would become eyebrowless.
I used to think that the entire digestive system consisted simply of a straight tube that stretched directly from my mouth to my... ahem... bottom... for some strange reason I never even considered the connection with my... ahem... peepee...
Because I could not understand how a baby could come out where it does, I reasoned to my self that when babies were born they came out of the belly button because (of corse) babies grew in the stomach -with all the food.
When I was little I did and thought the stupidest thing ever! I was on a hammock and I rolled it up so I was literally sitting on a thick rope type thing. I kept being pushed backwards by the unstable fabric beneath me, but it didn't hurt, until I suddenly fell forward and hit my jaw hard against the floor. I smashed it so hard that I began to bleed and my mom was just cracking up because she "told me so." After I calmed down and the blood receeded a little, I asked my mom where my chin went and she told me that I still had it, and she gave me a mirror for me to see for myself, but I swore to her that the tip must still be in the living room! (I thought that it was like an egg and that I had cracked it) So I went back and spent the last 10 minutes and after returning from suturing, spent the next few days looking for the missing piece.
When I was really small I had a horror of beards. I thought if a man failed to shave for a day or two, he'd be hopelessly caught in a tangle of hair, and like Bluto in the Popeye cartoons, would become an evil bully. I thought the two worst things about being male were 1) getting drafted, and 2) shaving.
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i thought that there was a little town in my bellybutton, so i nevered thouched it.
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when i was 5, i thougt my outie bellybutton was a third eye that opens when im a sleep.
I remember in 4th grade i used to take a bath and i'd rinse my hair out with a bucket, so i'd dip the bucket in water and close my eyes and dump it on my head. Well one day i didn't close my eyes and i looked down (i was chubby btw) and i saw the water running out from my belly button. So during recess that day i told all the girls i was playing with that i knew what a belly button was for! The water runs out of there when you use too much during your bath or shower. When i got older i realized that the water was just running down my stomach.
A teacher who was explaining evolution said, if we dont use something, eventually it will be gone. She used the pinky toe as an example, meaning it might be a vestige someday. My friend took it literally though, and proceeded to exercise her pinky toes for months so it wouldn't fall off.
When I was about 5 I banged my jaw while playing outside. I truly believed (and told everyone) that my jaw would be replaced with a wooden one becuase I had damaged it. I was very suprised when my mum told me an operation would not be necassary
I used to believe that all my friends who had bangs, were just born with them. Until about first grade when i said to my best friend, "i wish i had bangs like you" and she laughed and told me how the lady at the hair cut place cut them.
When i was little, i asked my older sister why we swish our arms when we walk, she told me it was so our armpits can breathe. I believed her up until i was in junior high.
Once, when i was little, i was scared of the tendons in your arm because you can sometimes see them move. I asked my brother what they were called and he must have said tendons but i heard testicles. In school, we were doing a project to see if we would want to be a veterinarian. i said no, because i dont like testicles. my family never let me live that one down.
When I was around 4 or 5 yrs old I thought the metal buttons on the pocket corners of jeans were rivets, and couldn't understand how adults could walk around in them not being hurt by all the rivets that were screwed into their thighs and buttocks.
I used to believe that since people were filled with 3/4 water, it was dangerous to stand upside down because the water would rush to your head and possibly go in your lungs so you would drown. Years ago we found the book which pictured a little boy filled with water up to his shoulders and thats who I blame.