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My mom has this weird crease, which look like stitches, going from left to right on her nose. So, I ask her what that line was about. She told me that she was born without the lower portion of the nose and the line I saw were the stitches of her plastic surgery. It was not only her but even the rest of my family used to said that to me. So, I thought it was the truth till last year when my mom decided that 15 years of fooling me was enough and told me the truth FINALLY!!!!

Aparana

I used to think the ringing in your ears was an alarm telling me someone was trying to contact me...mainly the ghostbusters and the ninja tutrles!!

Jo

When I was 3, my older brother told me that if I made a face then someone slapped me in the back I would be stuck with that face for the rest of my life. Of course, it didn't work if someone tripped you right after you were slapped in the back.

Anon

When I was about 4 or 5, I used to believe that instead of bones, we had metal pipes.

TL

when I was a little kid, I was told that if I bleed any part of my body, like my hands or knees, the food that I ate will get out with the bleeding. This belief succeeded in making me stop crying n paying more attention to the scar instead.

steve

When I was a child I always thought that bar codes were made of fingernails and that the government collected everyone's fingernails to make them. I was always afraid that if my hand fell under a laser at the grocery store that the government would track me down and force me to tell them how I knew the barcodes were made of fingernails.

Jocelyn

When I was 6,my best guy friend told me if I leaned forward my heart would fall out of my chest.I was horrified,I've never had straighter posture since

Fudge

Until I was about 4, I believed that those biceps grown-ups talked about where placed on the elbow, and that that was the only measurment of how strong a person was. I dreamt of having huge, long elbows when I grew up.

Eliot

My grandma had a tooth which was half gold. She told us that we could get a tooth like hers if we didn't stick our tongue in the space our tooth fell out of. I was never successful at that.

Rae

I was early to "develop" and also a tomboy. I started getting a chest in the fourth grade and was devastated. I don't know why, but I was convinced that boobs grew at night, so I always wore my bra to bed to try and curb the process. My mom set the record straight after doing laundry and confronting me on why I always needed new bras.

Katie

i used to think that my stomach was like a movie theater, and if i ate only one of anything it would be lonely. like going to the movies without a date. odd numbers were bad because there would always be one poor thing left over. to this day i still (if it's convenient, i'm not crazy-obsessive about it) tend to eat in multiples of two or four!

Kelly

I used to believe that if I scratched one side of my body I had to
scratch the other to be "even".

Greg

When I was 4, I was trying to impress my mother by knowing which was my left handed and which was my right hand. For reassurance, I would ask my mother, as I raised my right hand I would ask, "Is this my right hand?" she replied ,"Right" and I would raise my left hand and I would ask, "Is this my right hand?" and she would reply, "Wrong", consequently, I thought I had a right hand and a wrong hand.

Zach Arnold

I used to eat alot at meal time and people would say "He's got a hollow leg." It wasn't until I was 11 that I figured out I really didn't have a hollow leg.

James

when my the first of tooth about to fall, my elder brother made me beleive that if I showed it to open sky, a replacement tooth wont grow at all. Hurriedly I used to bury it in our garden.

karthik paithankar

I used to believe that when you cracked your knuckles or your bones creaked that you were snapping the stitches that held you together - when they all snapped you died.

Anon

when i was a kid my grandfather had false teeth and could pop them out of his mouth whenever he wanted to. then i had a great-uncle who would come to visit who had a wooden leg and would take it off and prop it against the wall while he was sitting. i believed we all had removeable parts and spent tons of time trying to pull out my teeth or pop off limbs and digits - all to no avail!

mindilou

I knew pretty early on that the human body was two-thirds water, and I thought that if you got cut in the right place, water would come out. Never did find the right spot.

Joe L.

I was about 5 when I heard my uncle was coming for a visit. They said he had a broken arm. I cried and said I didn't want to see my uncle because I imagined his arm was just hanging there all broken and mangled.

Film Girl

When i litte I used to think that if you had a birth mark,wherever it was situated on your body that was the part of your body that came out first during birth.?? I have one on my stomach so was really confused and thought how awkward that must of been what with my stomach coming out first and thinking how flexible babies must be ha ha

Nikola