When I was an infant, I got stung by a mosquito on the ear, and to this day I have a lump of scar tissue the size of a pea in my right earlobe. I thought that everyone had lumps in their ears, and when I was about 7 I felt my left ear and was shocked to discover that the lump had somehow disappeared! My mom straightened me out.
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when I was a child, I used to believe that if someone accidentally broke a body part such as an arm or leg etc, you could go to the store and purchase a new one.
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I thought my top ridges of my inner mouth were permantely wrinkled from sucking too much candy pops like it made my cheek lining wriknle temporary.
i used to believe my mum had 3 feet because once there where 3 of her socks drying on the radiator and i couldnt work out that they were just odd socks so when i asked her why there were 3 she jokingly told me she had 3 feet! i believed it for years!
I had my own unique belief about the warning, "if you cross your eyes, they'll stick that way". I thought that there was a set time limit that everyone had, and every time I crossed my eyes I was counting down seconds off that time limit. Every time I crossed my eyes, I got a rush thinking I was getting closer to "zero hour" - and was this the time that they would stick!?!?
When my sis was about 3 years old, she was rubbing our mother's unshaven leg. She asked "What are these?" and my mom answered "Stubbles." My sister said "Do they bite?" We still crack up over it 30 years later.
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When i was little i used to believe that when you got your haircut, the barbers would "unscrew" the top of your head and screw a different hairstyle back on.
My dad always told my brother and me that we had batteries in our backs. The reason was he wanted us to be careful when playing in or crossing the street. He said if we messed around and got hit by a car, out batteries would fall out and we'd "turn off"
Growing up, I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth, my teeth would grow in like a Walrus's. Needless to say, my unexplained childhood paranoia led to exceptionally good oral hygiene and have only had 1 cavity to date...and I'm now 27! Parents: Don't get any crazy ideas about instilling this fear into your children to get them to brush. At the time I was horrified and scared senseless! Very traumatizing.
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my mom used to scare us into washing our hands before we ate by telling us that the dirt under our nails were really little worms!
My parents told me I had a tail when I was born. They insisted for years. When I was in high school I learned about a medical condition where a baby is born with part of their spine sticking out, so that is what I thought I had. I asked my parents and they just laughed. Jerks! I still am not sure if I was born with a damn tail or not.
I used to believe that all of the food a person ate went into their legs. As their legs filled up, they had to get them cut off and replaced with newer, longer legs: that's how people get taller!
If people got lazy and didn't change them, then the legs just got fat.
Some people couldn't afford 2 whole new legs, so they would get one new one and take off the other, full leg (amputees).
My grandfather once told me that if you untie your belly button, your butt would fall off.
I thought that the colour of your eyes determined how well you could see that particular colour.
E.g., if you have blue eye's you could interpret blue more deeply than someone with brown eyes.
I reasoned that the reason this wasn't common knowledge was because there was no objective way for one person to say how "blue" blue was to them.
My collegue believed that if someone touched your belly button, your bum would fall off.
He's still tetchy about it today.
Until I was 15 years old, I believed my mom when she said baby's came our a girls belly button. When I was 8 I saw a girl with a belly button ring and my mom told me it was birth control.
I used to believe some really weird things. I thought that those ladies who wear really dark lipliner, but very light or no lipstick had gotten in trouble for talking when they were a kid, so their parents cut off their lips. When they turned 18 and became a legal adult, they went and got their lips put back on because it's easier to do stuff with lips. Now they made a law that said you couldn't chop off your kid's lips so that's why there aren't kids walking around with no lips anymore.
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I used to think that blood was blue until it touched air.
My mom used to tell me that if I didn't brush my teeth everyday, my teeth would rott the next day. My dad even said that if I didn't brush my teeth everyday, a monster would come out of nowhere with a giant drill and drill out ALL of my teeth.
It's kind of funny, because I used to believe that if you put too much water on your face, like on your chin, you would grow a beard or hair on your chin, so I always tried not to get my chin wet and stare in the mirror to make sure I wasn't growing any hair on my chin.