body parts: general

I used to believe the white marks on my fingernails represented recent lies I had told. My parents told me this and I believed it for years. I was too young to wear nail polish and couldn't wear gloves in warm weather and therefore became a very paranoid, yet truthful child.

When I was little, my father told me that our bones are replaced every seven years (meaning that old bone is broken down and new bone grows, all the time). I took it literally and spent two years very worried that on my seventh birthday I would have to go see the doctor and get my bones replaced.

i USED to think that nails fell out like teeth and i would get an 'adult' set when i got older because adult nails looked really different

I used to think people were made of dirt and mayonnaise. I kind of rememeber picking this up at church.

I believed until college (I guess I just didn't think about it) that women had one more rib than men. I thought that it explained the whole Adam and Eve thing.

My grampa was a boxer and had a very big nose from breaking it multiple times.
Well when I was little I asked why his nose was so big, he said, because he broke it so many times they had to make him a new one and ordered the wrong size.

When I was small, I remember watching my elderly grandmother take off her dentures to wash them. Then she would put them back in.
I was always confused as to why my teeth weren't able to come off but hers were!

I used to believe when I was little that when people said I would grow into my nose that when I grew up I would have a really big head.

When I was little I found out that if I sucked on my arm I would get this big red mark.(hickey) So then I showed my mom and she told me if you ever get one of those they have to remove that body part because it was harmful... It scared the crap out of me for years!

When I was 13 I was booked in to have my adenoids removed but I went to school and told everyone I was having my "androids" removed.

I used to believe that all children had sugar behind their ears because my great uncle would always say "Come give me some sugar!" and then he'd pretend to get the sugar from behind my ears. So I always wondered how the sugar got there and how come only us kids had it!

I don't remember this, but my parents told me. When I was 2 we had a dog and apparently I thought "tail" meant "butt". I fell down and informed them: "My tail is hurting."

I used to believe that the reason why you put your hand over your heart during the flag salute is to see if it's beating.

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...

My parents told me that when you got a ringing in your ears, it meant a satellite was overhead.

Into my early teens, I would look up into the sky whenever my ears rang to look for the satellite!

I used to believe…

oneday my dad caught these huge fish and cleaned them by the porch then a few days later when the space shuttle blew up and people were finding body parts of the astronouts (sp?) i was playing outside and when i saw the fish scale, i screamed and told my dad that i found one of the people's finger nails and he started freaking out until i showed him and he just laughed at me.....hehehe