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When I was younger I saw my mom doing laundry and when she pulled out a bra I asked her what it was. She told me it was a 'boobie hanger' So for the longest time I thought that was actually what it was called. Needless to say I was embarrassed when it came time to get a bra :D

Becca

When I was little my aunt once told me that after cutting your nails you have to flush them in order to get rid of them and If you throw it on the ground or anywhere other than the toilet, an evil spirit (jinn) would appear and will take you to its underground prison. I was terrified I never dared to throw them anywhere else no matter how tired I was. I believed this until I was 14

Ammaila

Having seen my tonsils I used to believe my throat was divided into two holes. One for food and one for drink. I never mixed food and water in my mouth in case they went down the wrong hole

johnboy

When I was young, I got in an accident and ended up with a CT scan. My dad told me that if I wasn't careful, he'd have to get my more brain fluid at the local drug store.

For years, I believed that brain fluid was available in a glass jar at the Walgreens down the street. We baffle other children all the time with that one now.

Anon

I once asked my dad why boys grew an adams apple and girls didn't. He said that when my brother gets to be a certain age he'll make him swallow an apple, it'll eventually shrink and get stuck there forever. I went and told my brother I was glad I was a girl!

Adams Apple

Every woman I looked at when I was little had their ears covered with their hear. I used to beleive all woman had no ears at all. That's why they covered them with their hair as they were embarrassed at not having ears.
I was quite surprised when I first saw a woman with ears!!!!!!!!!!

Beef.

When I was born, a friend of the family made me a blanket and gave me a teddy bear. I carried these with me every moment of my life until I went to kindergarten. The bear often required minor stitching from Mom "to keep his beans in," as she said. Well, I thought humans were filled with beans (that is, polystyrene pellets) too, and if you broke your leg, beans would come out too. (Blame my fear of breaking a leg on my ballerina sister.) Consequently, I developed a fear of walking down our spiral staircase, lest I slip through the stairs and fall to break my leg and spill my beans all over the floor.

Ashleigh

I used to think that if you didn't blow your nose and just sniffed the snot up, you head would blow up.

Anon

When I was about 5 years old I had this book called "The Human Body" its was almost as tall as me and said how your body worked ... all different parts .. it was really cool , but in it , it would show for example the muscles in your arm and they were represented by little strings/ropes and they were being pulled by little men in what looked like train conductor overalls , and in the brain there were some really stressed out people answering telephone calls from allover your body .... I beleived for acouple of years that this was true and that your body was controlled by little people ... some of whom were wearing little train conductor overalls << I felt VERY bad for the ones who I saw in the "waste removal" section who sorted your poop and pee into sections according to colour and contents with big metal spoons ....

Alanna

I used to believe that there were little blue men in my brain that would keep track of everything I learned. When I couldn't remember things, it made me nervous; I thought they'd snuck out during the night through my ears.

Anon

I used to believe that a woman's breasts were filled with Picante hot sauce. There was no rationalization to this theory of mine, as far as I know.

Loretta

I used to think a clitoris was some sort of dinosaur.

Anon

I "sprouted" early, I also swallowed a nickle, so when I started to grow I panicked thinking that my nickle grew inside of me and was stuck in my chest.

W/O 2 cents

When my friend was little, she believed that her forehead was called a forehead because she was four years old. She thought that when she turned five, it would become a fivehead, then a sixhead, a sevenhead, and so on.

Anon

I thought that we each had 3 souls, and they were pink spotty organs in our bodies. Someone in my class convinced me of this, they even had pictures. I put it in a school project once. I wonder what my teacher thought...

Aaron

I was always afraid to get my ears pierced when I was young. I thought that the "gun" they used was a real gun. I was afraid they would miss and shoot the earring into my eye!

Terri

when i was 4 or 5 my mother and grandmother used to tell me that when i told a lie my tounge would turn black. so i would tell a lie and then run to a mirror. i would then go ask one of them if i just told a lie why wasn't my tounge black? they said that only parents and grand parents can see it. i believed this untill i was 10

melissa

At school I was walking with past someone with a headphone in one ear, one of my friends decided to go up and shout in this guy's ear. My friend must have done something to his hearing as the guy shoutd out "ow! My tampon" The whole school practically stopped and stared at him. Meanwhile I was rolling around on the floor with laughter as were my friends. The guy was convinced that tampon was another name for eardrum.

Still Laughing

When I was off to my first day off school,I remember my mum saying to me.."Give me a BIG Smile so I can see your dimples"
So from then on I thought dimples were actually the gaps in my TEETH!
I was a LOOONG time until i found out they were on your cheeks.

Bec T

My brother and I used to sit around pulling on our front teeth trying to get them to come out like Grandpa and Grandma's. When we'd get frustrated we'd go and ask them for another lesson and they'd show us how easy it was. We kept trying but never could get the hang of it.

JB