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When I was child I used to believe If I didn't brush
my teeth before going to bed, they would fall, because my father said me. Sometimes I brushed two times to be sure that they didn't fall.

Anon

After watching blue peter it showed a diagram of a person's circulatory system. Half the blood was red and the other hal was blue.
For years, possibly until i was about 13, I believed that some of our blood was blue and couldn't understand why I'd never seen my blue blood before

Becci

A friend of the family was very very short (possibly a dwarf) and when i was about 5 I asked her why.
She said it was because her legs got cut in half and i believed her.
Right up until i was about 8 or 9 i pondered how she managed to get her legs in a pair of shoes as i imagined that she had little stumps like tree trunks.

Becci

when i was young my sister used to do that thing with her thumb and tell me that she was taking my nose then she would run over to the toilet so id run over there and look in the toilet and every time there was something that looked like my nose so shed flush the toilet and id cry for three days and when id go out with someone id always ask some random person if my nose was in there toilet as i got older i found out that she never took my nose and the thing in the toilet was half of a circus peanut

Tif'

I was very tall for a kid. I used to pray at night when I went to bed that I wouldn't grow anymore because my much shorter sister told me I would grow up to be a giant and mom and dad wouldn't be able to afford to buy me cloths.

Bloody Anne Vane

When I was 5 I used to lay my head down to my brother´s belly to listen to his bowels´ sounds / I now believe many if not every child does this/, but somehow these sounds made me picture the bowels looking like a big nice juicy slice of water melon. Today I am a doctor and sometimes when I am listening to peoples´ bowels sounds with a sthetoscope I recall the picture and have to smile and they don´t have a clue why.
P.S.1: This is another story - but you wouldn´t believe, what many grown people think of what human body looks like and functions inside - this could be a topic for another great site like this.
P.S.2: Excuse my English, I´m not a native speaker.

Anon

When I was little I used to worry excessively. My mom told me that if I kept worrying so much I would get a "hole" in my stomach (meaning a tumor). I then began to worry even more about my belly button opening up and people being able to see all my insides.

melissa

I thought that the "guts" were an actual organ. I imagined them as a mass of orange and yellow stringy stuff.

JJ

I used to think when I was little that you had three *tubes* in your mouth... one for solid food, one for liquid and one for breathing!

Kaitie

I used to believe that I could take any zipper(my grandmother kept some at her house), put it around my arm(or other body part), and zip it off. All I got from this was a lot of bruises on my arms, my legs, and parts I'd rather not mention.

Kirk

As a kid, my Mom and Aunt would make fun of me and sing this song about how I had a freckle on my butt. I hated this stupid freckle, and would lay in bed at night and worry about how embarrassed I would be when I finally grew up, got married and had to be naked in front of my husband. I sincerely belived that he would be totally grossed out by my butt freckle.

Jessica

i used to believe that all humans had small clear-colored sacks in their throats filled with blue tear-shaped drops. for each kiss given that day, you would lose one drop. if you used all 12 drops in one day, you would never be able to replenish them for the next day--thereby becoming eternally unkissable!

joanne

I used to think we had two brains, and they were long thin bones inside your head that dripped blood

megan

when i was little my dad used to tell me to cut my fingernails or tonails well i hated it and i said that it hurts. so to make me cut my nails my dad would telll me i would turn green if i didnt cut them and i would get a disease i bellivedd this until i was 12 im 23 now.

the man

When i was a younin i used to think that because my cousin had a false tooth (it got knocked out somhow and he's only 2 years older then me), both my parents have false teeth and the thought that all old people had false teeth, i thought i was doomed to a life of having false teeth. I thought that any day now all my teeth would fall out and i'd have to spend the rest of my life with false ones.

Anon

My mom has Restless Legs. Well me and my friend thought it was just some term she made up and we laughed and laughed and laughed about it...because we thought it wasnt real and she was joking. We still laugh about it. I saw a commercial on TV for Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS), and i accused her if making the commercial up to convince me and my friend, i dont REALLY think she did though. Well, maybe...

Rachel Gabrielle

I used to think that doctors added plastic to your face in plastic surgery.

caro

when I was like, 6, my mom always told me that the little scraps of food that came out of your teeth when you flossed, were sugar bugs. I thought they were actual bugs so I tried to make a collection.

Anon

When I was real little, I remember thinking for a brief time that your age was in direct correlation with your shoe size, i.e., if you're 2, you wear a size 2; if you're 5, you wear a size 5. I have no idea how I came up with this...

Anon