body parts

My son was convinced for some time that people with the "crazy eyes" (the ones who wore contacts that were all white or had Xs on them, etc.)were actually removing their eyes and putting new ones in. He asked me several times how old he had to be before I would let him change his eyes!

When I was little, my uncle used to tell me that if I kept biting the center porttion of my upper lip, it would eventually grow to be the size of an apple or even a watermelon. Can you imagine... an apple size growth in the middle of your face!! :-)

i use to coach a little girl who was convinced that she didn't have any blood ... she was about 4 ... one day she cut herself and started freaking out because "there is blood coming out of me"

My Mother told me that if you get a Tatoo your skin will fall off.

my dad told me when i was 5 that i had a golden screw in my belly button and if i kept playing with the screw my butt would fall off because the screw was holding it on

i used to believe that people were made of hotdogs. like if you got a finger or a limb cut off, there wouldn't be bones or veins or anything. just "meat".
but if you got your head cut off there would be a tube in the middle of the hotdog, like those cheese filled ones...

My Mom always told me that if I played with my bellybutton the knot might come loose and my skin would unravel.

My sisters told me you could unscrew
your belly button if you played with it too much

When I was a kid I believed that the black people were people who never took a bath...

I must have been 6 or 7 When I was told that we need oxygen to live. I thought we had boxes of oxygen inside of our bodies. I prayed that I had enough for a long, long life.

I used to think that wisdom teeth came when you had too much knowledge to fit in your brain so it was put in extra teeth...until I got some of my own hehe

I used to believe that tonsils were popsicle sticks. Not sure why, maybe because I ate so many when I had mine out.

When I was about 4 or 5 years old we had a milkman who had red hair. Also, even though my parents were blond and brunette, I had bright red hair. Occasionally, in an attempt to make conversation with me, adults would ask where I had gotten my red hair.

On one occasion when I was somewhere with my mischievous father, I was presented this question and he quickly interceded. He gleefully said, “From the milkman!” Of course, I believed him so that became my standard answer until one day my Mother overheard me give it. Upon regaining her composure, she demanded knowing where I had come up with such a notion. I explained and she kindly but sternly told me not to credit our milkman with my red hair ever again.

We had the Childcraft series of kiddie encyclopedias - volume 5, I believe, was all about the human body. There was a picture of a boy & girl showing their intestines, stomach, etc - but for some reason, the boy figure, turned slightly, only had a few loops of intestine drawn, I guess just to represent the space normally taken up by all the intestines. The girl, shown head-on, had the typical full set of intestines drawn. I believed that girls had more "guts" than boys and that's why most women had bigger stomachs and hips than men.

I used to think that the way you got an itch, was that caterpillars were crawling around under your skin.

I used to believe that men went bald because they wore hats. The hats kept their heads from getting sunlight and water that hair needs to grow, kind of like plants. I told my grandpa Verl that he should take his hat off while he was outdoors and maybe he could grow his hair back. I was way too old to have thought that!