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If you stood in front of the fire for too long your spine would melt!

Helen, Cumbria

When I was younger, my cousin told me about her friend who tried to do the splits and got split up her middle. Well naturally, I had visions of her friend literally tearing down her middle and all her insides falling out. Turns out, thats not quite what happened...

Anon

I had a book that explained the human body but I couldn't read then so I only looked at the pictures. The pictures has little people running your body.. like little people had on ear-thingies and lots of mini computers in the brain. Also the bloodstream was a highway with mini cars that ran through... so I thought they needed gas for the cars so when it was cold I'd try to eat my own breath 'cause you could see it and it looked like exaust from a car. Also I talked to the mini people in my head with ear-thingies and compters.

Cars need fuel too!

i used to believe that babies had no mouths because they couldnt talk

Anon

When I was little, I believed that your voice box was your adam's apple, and a literal box in your throat. I figured the bigger the box, the louder you could yell. I also thought that cats didn't have voice boxes, but they had purr boxes instead, because you could feel the purr in their throats.

Voice in your head

when i was little my grandfather had me convinced he had dropped his thumb(lost in a welding accident)and would have me looking all over the house for it. another popular story he told was that he had fought with a bear, and while turning it inside out, got his thumb bit off.

nikki(gullible)lightfoot

I used to think that if someone cut their leg or arm off, it would look like the cross section of an orange inside.

ilikecows13

I didn't learn which shoe goes on which foot very easily. I'd put the left on my right and the right on my left. My mom would see this and tell me and I'd look at her, cross my feet then spin. I really believed that by doing that my shoes switched feet!

Heazure

When I was about 5 I banged my jaw while playing outside. I truly believed (and told everyone) that my jaw would be replaced with a wooden one becuase I had damaged it. I was very suprised when my mum told me an operation would not be necassary

Oliver Worley

When I was in the 1st grade...I think, we were learning how the body works and what it is made of. So I asked my aunt and she said "mostly bones and tissues" so I went back to school and told my teachers and all my classmates people were made out of toilet tissue. I was instantly corrected. I cried.

squirt

When I was little, I believed that the septum (the part inside your nose that divides it into two parts) was just a very large booger, and I used a Q-tip to try to get it out! All that did was make my nose hurt so I gave up.

Kate

I didn't know adults had teeth. I thought adults teeth fell out, just like baby teeth, and then they had to get dentures. Both of my parents had dentures. I just thought some adults had really ugly dentures.

Anon

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

I used to believe that the whole of your insides were a hollow mass and if you cut yourself, everything inside you could come out of the whole. I remember refusing to eat my fish and chips after cutting my knee because i thought they'd come out of there.

Francesca

(Just so this makes sense I'm a girl)

When I was about five we had to small dogs that walked all over us. I had observed, many times, that my dogs would walk on my dad and he would say, "My Nuts!"...So one day our little terrier did the same thing to me in the same spot so I said "My Nuts!"

Needless to say I got a few weird looks from my sisters and mother explaining that I didn't have "nuts"

Oh so smart...

I tried to wrap my head around "where babies come from" at an early age...too young, I suppose to understand the legitimate process, so when I asked my mother about it, she said all babies are little angel gifts from God. I spent the first six years of my life convinced that my two shoulder blades were wing stubs...the portion of wing that remained when my wings rotted off.

Laurie Kendrick

When my sister was small, she saw my mother take out her dentures, and tried to take her own teeth out. When they wouldn't come out, she was upset because hers were"nailed on" - she believed she was the only one whose teeth didn't come out on command!

Mrs. E.

My younger brother used to believe that the only reason I had braces was to keep my teeth from falling out of my mouth.

no-braces-but-still-with-teeth

i used to believe that the inside of our bodies were made from metal and that our stomachs were small trash compactors and our hearts were batteries. my mother had to buy me an anatomy book to convince me otherwise.

lauren

I used to believe that everybody used to have a tail that grew out of your tailbone, but you got it cut off at birth. Same with shoulder blades-- or, as my mother called them, wing-buds.

Emily