When I was a little girl I used to think that boys and men didn't have eyelashes because Mickey Mouse doesn't have eyelashes. I found out when I tried to pull my dad's eyelashes and they wouldn't come out. I had thought they were fake.
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When I was in kindergarted, there was an older girl at my school who had no arms due to a birth defect. For some reason, I thought that she used to have arms, but that she had lost them. I thought that if I was wasn't careful, I could lose my arms too. I was terrified, and I held my arms as close to my body as I could at all times. Finally my mother noticed I was acting strange, and she set me straight.
When I was small, a well-meaning neighbour told me that the hand you write with is your right hand, and the one that's left over is your left hand.
Guess who's left-handed? This left me thoroughly confused for many months!
After seeing the braces on our cousin's teeth, my (then five-year-old) brother informed our mom that when he was older, he was going to have "bracelets" on his teeth just like her. He thought they were a special kind of mouth jewelry.
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When I was about 5, I used to think your heart was inside your belly!
this went on from 1nd to 6th grade, i always thought that if you sneezed with your eyes open that your eyes would pop out of your head a little bit. When i was in 5th grade a friend of mine said it happened to a friend of hers. when i was in 6th grade i was reading about Urban Myths and that was a big one. It said it was impossible for that to happen.
This actually came from a student of mine... I teach an after school/summer camp program with Kindergarteners. After giving my "scissors are only for cutting paper" speech one day, a student raised his hand to share the following statement with the class on why it isn't safe to cut someone with scissors. "You can cut through your skin and under your skin is your bones. If you cut your bones, milk will squirt out all over the place and make a big mess!" (He must have heard drinking milk will make your bones grow and concluded it to mean that the milk people drink fills bones to make them strong.) At least he got some anatomy and heath information right.. well sort of. = )
i seriously used to believe that a person's soul was a big opal-colored oval in their hips. i have no idea how i came to this conclusion, but i still kind of think that. ...and i'm 15 now.
When I was small, I would talk to my belly. Sometimes my mom would say "Your belly wants carrots" and I would snap at her "MY BELLY DIDNT SAY THAT!" My belly always asked for ice cream....
When i was real little, i used to believe that the only way to tell a boy from a girl was by their eyelashes. I thought only girls had eyelashes and boys didnt, because that was the way it was on cartoons.
I used to think that when you cut your hair short it curled. My mom had just gone from long hair to the very popular short afro-style perm - late 70s - hair do. I tried to apply this theory to ALL my barbie dolls, but it didn't work.
I used to believe that it was possible to make yourself not ticklish! I am EXTREMLY ticklish - any contact on my tummy or soles can feel like almost agony.
But stupidly when I was about 12 I let all my friends pin me down on my back with my arms up and tickle me non stop for 5 mins straight, no breaks
I was practicly in tears and TOTALY hysterical and frantic the whole time!
And I am still just as ticklish
when i was little, i used to freak out if someone touched my bellybutton or messed with their own. My cousin jen truly believed that if you messed with your belly button that it would come untied and your intestines would fall out. After she told me that i had a definite phobia of being de-knotted and disemboweled. The fact that my sister was a vicious tummy-tickler didn't help the matter, either.
I was a pretty sheltered child, and when I was about 5, my grandparents owned a Gunsmith shop. I was in the shop playing on the floor one day, and the Sherriff, who happened to be Black, came in to have his gun worked on. This was my perfect opportunity to ask him a question that had been burning in my mind for days. So I asked him, "Hey Mister, is your tounge black too?"
Imagine my Grandparent's embarassment.
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When I was little I used to think that there was a town living in my stomach.And I thought my belly button was their sewer.
That's why I didn't pick it.
When we were little girls, my best girlfriend would wear a band-aid across her belly button so that the air wouldn't come out of it and make her zoom around the room like a deflating balloon. I secretly always hoped the patch would fall off when I was over playing because I thought it would be funny to see her flying!
I used to believe that I was the only person on earth with a belly button because my sister pulled up her pants above her belly button and said, 'See! I don't have a hole in my stomach!'
I used to believe that your belly buttons were connected to your intestines, and if you poked your belly button too hard, you could puncture your intestines and die.
when I was little I was sitting in art class and I kept flipping my eyelids. My art teacher told me that if I kept doing it my eye would fall out....I havnt flipped my eyelids since!
When I was little, I used to think that boys weren't supposed to have eyelahes and when I saw boys at school, I would wonder, "Why do they have eyelashes? Boys aren't supposed to have eyelashes!"