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When I was young (like 3 & 4 yrs old) and would have ear infections, my mom would take me to the doctor...the doctor would confirm that, yes, I did have an ear infection, and that it was because Bert and Ernie (from Sesame Street) were in there airing their dirty socks. I truly believed that Bert and Ernie did their laundry in my head. I'm not sure how long it took me to realize it wasn't true...

Ali

i used to believe that testacles were tentacles (what is it with little kids and hearing things wrong. they should be given dictionaries - seriously)

i thought that guys must have a lot of trouble fitting their tentacles into their undies.

it would definitely have explained the bulge that most guys seem to have.

ew.

testy tot:)

When i was young, up to the age of about 8 or so, i misheard when people said taste buds and thought that they were actually called taste 'bugs'. I thought that we all had these black beetles crawling around inside our tongues, tasting the food we ate and sending messages to our body saying whether the food was yummy or gross.
I would sometimes squeeze my tongue and thought i could feel them in there.

Once when i was looking at my tongue in the mirror and i saw all these little red dots on top of it (REAL taste buds) i thought i had a disease!
i asked my older sister and she told me it wasn't a disease because she had the same thing. I was like,
"We've both got the tongue disease! we'll have to keep our mouths closed forever so no one else gets it."
I was hysterical until she explained to my poor, uninformed mind all about taste 'buds'.

a little buggy

When I was 8 or so, I found this thing of dental temporary filling material in my paren'ts bathroom. But it just said filling material. There was a white, clay like material inside. So I thought areas of your body you rubbrd it on would get bigger. I rubbed it all over my breasts. Then, when I was about 12, I saw my dad putting it in his tooth and realized all at once that there was a misunderstanding.

Anon

as a child i would always see my mother put on chapstick.one day i asked why she did that. she said it was to fix her lips when they were chapped, hence the name. so i then asumed that chapstick was someone else's lips liquified and put into those little tubes. she never quite understood why i refused to use it after that day.

Anon

I used to bite my nails a lot when I was young. Well, I still do.
:P
But my aunt once scared the shit out of me by telling me that one day a huge tree will grow out of my mouth which would have nails dangling to it instead of fruits.
:|
I used to cry day and night.
But I still couldn't stop biting my nails.
It's addictive, you know.

Diksha

When i was about 4 I used to believe that boys testicles were actually 2 marbles covered in skin. I beleived this because a male friend had told me that this was what they were.

Kaya

I used to be afraid of moving my wrists incase i snapped my veins and bled to death.

Tender veins

when i was little i asked my mom when my penis would grow. (I am a girl) I thought i would have a penis when I was bigger. Just like my big brother.

wopske

I used to think that your knee cap was called your knee ball.

Erika

When I was little my dad said that your ribs protect your heart. I thought this meant that if you touched your heart you would die instantly. So I found out my freshman year of highschool thats not true. I always wondered how they did open heart surgery

Ashaleyy

I used to believe that when you lost a tooth, if you didn't feel around in the empty spot with your tongue, when the tooth grew back it would be gold or silver.

Tanis

When I was younger - 5 or 6 - and I would feel the back of my neck, I used to think M&Ms were in there (instead of my spinal column).

kel

i used to believe that if a person was really stupid u could see through one ear and out the other(i still kinda do)

Anon