body parts: general

When I was little my dad said that your ribs protect your heart. I thought this meant that if you touched your heart you would die instantly. So I found out my freshman year of highschool thats not true. I always wondered how they did open heart surgery

I grew up with baggy pants and low fitting pants, so for most of my life I thought my waist was where my hips are. It was my mom who finally explained to me that I am supposed to wear my pants higher. I never got out of the habit of wearing pants on my hip line.

Thanks a lot, dumb fads.
P.S. I am only 13 now.

Soul looked exactly like heart (anatomically correct heart, not "heart shape"), only it was on the right side of your body and it was transparent (not invisible).
That's how I imagined souls in Heaven/hell/purgatory too - hundreds of transparent heart muscles.

i used to believe that the people weren't alive when i wasn't with them, i thought that i was the only person who had life and everyone couldn't do anything when I didn't meet with them.

Someone in my family told me that old peoples wrinkles on their hands were due to getting them caught in the hand rails on early escalators. I still almost believe it now.

My mum always told me not to put my toenail clippings in the bin as a Witch Doctor could use them to make spells over me. To this day I flush the clippings down the loo!

When I was about 4 years old, my best friend and I got into a fight. He punched me, I punched him. In the shocked silence that followed, he touched his chest and said "Look what you've done, my hart is beating! My sister says if your hart starts beating you're going to DIE!!" he exclaimed with the fear of god in his eye. I told him to stop talking nonsense, but I was scared shitless.

When people told me the Royal Family had blue blood, I actually thought that they had blue blood. I also thought that 'air guitar' was actually a type of guitar

when the "toothfairy" came to my elmentary school she told the class that you needed to brush your teeth to remove germs. some how i got the notion that germs were gross little bugs & worms that ate holes into your teeth making cavities...i brushed A LOT!

A friend of the family had a gold tooth. I asked her how she got it. She said that when your tooth falls out, if you don't stick your tongue in the hole, your new tooth will be gold. Shortly after that, I lost my first tooth. I was very vigilant about not sticking my tongue in the hole where my tooth had been. But one day, without thinking, I stuck my tongue in the tooth hole. I was so disappointed knowing that now, I would never have a gold tooth.

When I was little my uncle had a huge adams apple. He told me he'd swallowed a marble.

When I was a little girl my Mum always told us she had spare arms and legs under the bed - so that if we ever got broken she could fix us!! I believed that until I was about 10 years old!!! She doesn't change either - my son wholeheartedly believes in fairies and elves and that they live in the wood - and that Haybales wrapped in coloured plastic in the fields are dinosaur eggs!!!! She is a wonderfully imaginative Mum.

I used to believe that there were tiny men inside me jumping on my heart to make it beat. I always wondered how come they didn't get tired...I was afraid because I got tired after jumping rope for a long time.

When I was a child, I believe that one of my tooth fell out, I put it under the pillow and a mouse called "perez" would come and exchange my tooth for some money.

When I was a child,I believed that if I buried my top baby teeth under the ground,and threw my bottom baby teeth onto the roof,new teeth would grow in my mouth.

When I was little, I used to believe that if you cut off your arms or legs or various other appendages that it would look like a sliced grape fruit inside.