When I was 4, my Dad told me that if I turned my head fast enough, I could see my ear. They had hours of fun watching me nearly misalign my neck and saying, "Did you see it yet?" To add to the deception, Dad or Mom would turn their head once and say, "Oh, I just saw my ear." It took a few years for me to figure it out.
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i can remember quite well, entering my aunt's place and being able to get a glimpse of her (she unfortunately died already some years ago) cleaning her dentures. Out of excitement i immediatley tried to pull my teeth out too thinking of myself being stupid not having realized already before!
When i was 5 my dad told me that if i played with my belly-button it would get bigger and bigger and i would have a big hole in the front of me. i Never touched it again.
My mom always told us that our belly button was a bear cave and when we got hungry: the stomach growl, was actually the bear growling. she said that we had better feed it before it got mad!
This is about my cousin. She's got dark red hair, and her mom loves her color. But at ten years old she badly wanted to bleach her hair, her mom told her that if she bleached her hair, it would go green, because she had red hair. Two years later she told me that i really shouldn't bleach my hair, I also got red hair, because it would go green, I didn't know how to react so I started a fitful laugh...and told her that wasn't true, and she was like "what?"
I belived that if I mixed all the different shampoos awailable in our bathromm, my hair would get extreemly strong and give me incredible powers. Havent seen any yet though.
My mom always told us that our belly button was a bear cave and when we got hungry: the stomach growl, was actually the bear growling. she said that we had better feed it before it got mad!
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I used to believe that if you were left-handed your heart was on the left side of your body and if you were right-handed the right side.
When I was 5, my sister (12) pretended to 'take my nose', you know when you stick your thumb between your index and middle fingers and tell the kid "got your nose".... she did this in the car on a family road trip and then pretended to throw it out the window. I cried for 2 straight hours pleading to go back and get my nose.
When I was about 7 my older sister (13) had one of those little tiny flies go in her ear and she couldn't get it out. My Mom took her to the hospital and when they came back they told me that the doctor took a hose and sprayed water in her ear and the fly came out the other ear.
I not only believed this but I told people this ACTUALLY HAPPENED until I was 12 or so. I didn't get that it was a joke until even later.
When I was young I used to believe that if I looked down my eyeballs would fall out. Needless to say I got a lot of bruises walking in to things whilst looking at the sky!!
A classmate said that if you didn't have a birthmark it meant you were an alien. That day I went home and stripped to find no birthmark. My dad found me crying and explained that if you didn't have a belly-button, you were an alien. I was so relieved because I knew I had one of those!
In the early seventies when I was just starting school my father used to teach at evening classes and my parents used to have parties for the students. The fashion at that time was for men to wear beards and have long hair, but my father didn't really go for that. So everytime I saw a man with a beard and long hair on the train or bus I would always think to myself 'That's a student'.
I have a cowlick right in the middle of my hairline in the front. Anytime I had bangs I looked ridiculous (my mom kept my hair short - GRRRRRRRR). She told me that if I cut it off that it would grow STRAIGHT OUT no matter how long it got. Till I was about 25 I used to tell all my hairdressers "Watch out! I have a cowlick in the front!"
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My father had false teeth and my oldest sister had a glass eye. When I was little, I used to believe that people could be taken apart to be cleaned.
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I used to think that areola was a type of flower that my mom had in the backyard. Like, "Mom, I hope your areolas survived the harsh winter".
I used to believe that people's skin worked like toilet-paper.You know how when you get to the end of a cheap roll of toilet-paper, it is all wrinkly and loose? Well, I thought it worked the same with skin - that you had a set number of layers which came off and when you got to the last few layers it became all wrinkly and thin! Obvious...
I was 4 when told a total whopper by my dad. He said if I stepped into the street, he would "skin me alive". It worried me so much I never did it, but I always thought I'd be really cold without skin and all my guts would fall out.
When I was younger, I realized that everyone has different color eyes. In the mist of my "realization", I thought that each person could only see that color. Ex: Blue eyes can only see the color blue, Green eyes can only see the color green and, so on. After some time of thinking about this, I remember looking around and thinking my eyes must be broken cause I could see every single color no matter where I was looking.
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I was convinced that you had to water your hair to make it grow, like plants. So the more you shampooed your hair, the longer it would grow.