body parts: general

When I was first learning to brush my own teeth, my mum would always remind me "don't forget to brush your back teeth". No one had ever explained to me what "back teeth" meant, so for years I used to gag myself trying to find the teeth at the back of my mouth.

Of course, i never found any teeth in my throat, but was too scared to ask mum about it because I thought I'd be told off for not having brushed them in years. I was about 8 when a dentist visited my school and I plucked up the courage to ask her about it. I felt a bit stupid, but at least it stopped me pushing toothbrushes down my throat...

WHen I was really young, about 3 or 4, my grandfather told me that how people get their buttcracks was the doctor had to sit a baby on an ax right after it was born. I told people that up until I was about 8 years old!

I used to think the human brain was the shape of a typical dog bone. I realized how far off I was when my fifth grade teacher brought in a real brain. I was mad at her for a long time for showing us the ugly truth, but at least I could see where we get our convoluted logic from.

My parents told me I had a tail when I was born. They insisted for years. When I was in high school I learned about a medical condition where a baby is born with part of their spine sticking out, so that is what I thought I had. I asked my parents and they just laughed. Jerks! I still am not sure if I was born with a damn tail or not.

When I was little I used to hear the expression "Did you use your marbles?" n order to secure that I would never lose my marbles I decide that plugging my ears with ear plugs would eliminate the possibility. I walked around with ear plugs as often as I could until I was seven and my parents told me the truth. They were laughing at first but then I guess decided it was sad.

When i was in second grade, a lot of kids in my class liked to say this one stupid joke.

One kid would ask another kid where someone or something was, and they would respond, "Up your butt and around the corner."

I actually believed that there was a corner up your butt. I thought that there was a bunch of corners, turns, stairs, doors, hallways... like a maze.

When I was very young, the nuns at school told us that it was a sin to touch yourself except when you were bathing. I had no idea what they meant, and for a time I tried to keep my hands away from the rest of me.

When I was feeling confident about counting up to 20 I began to count how many fingers people had - I always thought that the number of fingers depended on how old these people were but when I counted them I always ended up with 5. I was dissappointed UNTIL I made my mind up to give it another try; I tried to count my father's fingers and I had 6! I was so happy and loved my father for having 6 fingers!

This is embarrassing.

When I was very small I used to think that I had two sets of lungs: one set for breathing with your mouth, one set for your nose. I was convinced that the ridges on the roof of your mouth was the ribcage that protected your mini nose lungs from your food.

I had an uncle who has lost his arm in a farm accident. Also, I noticed when things were broken, they were thrown away.Sooo, when i fell and broke my arm (age 8), I was sure they were going to cut it off and throw it away. I was scared to death until I left the hospital with my arm in a cast and still attached to the rest of me!

when I was about 8-9 yrs old and was always at war with boys my age, I used to believe that men don't know what the female body is like and I would get angry with bra ads to let out such a secret!

I used to think that your knee cap was called your knee ball.

When I was a little kid and fell down and skin my knee, I used to think I was skinning my kidney.

When I was a child. I used to believe that there were little elves (like the Keebler elves) that operated my body. And when I was sick, it was because the elves were fighting.

I thought that you were allocated a certain number of heartbeats in your lifetime and that the quicker your heartbeat, the shorter your lifespan would be... Hence I avoided exercise until about the age of 14. I still find keeping fit very difficult.

I thought my stomach had different "compartments" for different foods. I would explain to my parents that my "spaghetti compartment" was full... but a few minutes later, when dessert came around, I'd have room because my "dessert compartment" was empty.