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I used to believe that after a person had surgery the surgeon would run them under a giant sewing machine to stich them together again
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I used to try to talk in a really deep voice when I was little because that's how my dad talked. My Papa told me if I kept it up my voice box would get stuck in low... I didn't talk deep again until I was in high school
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After your teeth fall out when you're a kid, your gums fall out. Then you get new gums and teeth.
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My dad used to have this mole on the middle of his back. He told us that if we pushed it, his butt would fall off.
I was in the nursing home with my great grandma one time and I saw her teeth in a jar. They were just floating there, so I come up to my grandma ( My great grandma's kid) and said, " Grandma can you help me pull my teeth out they won't move when I yank on them!!" I was about 4-5 years old.
When i was about 4 I used to believe that boys testicles were actually 2 marbles covered in skin. I beleived this because a male friend had told me that this was what they were.
It was a belief that was instilled in me shortly after I started losing my baby teeth. My grandfather was visiting us and took out his false teeth to sleep and cleaned them in the morning. This was the first time I had seen false teeth and I made the connection that if I were more careful, I would be able to pull all of my teeth out of my mouth at the same time and be able to put them back into my mouth after cleaning or sleep. I was trying to pull out my teeth for like a week before my mom told me otherwise.
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I used to believe that if I couldn't suck in my gut anymore, my belly would bulge out twice as much.
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When I was you younger, I used to believe men had their menstruation.
If you pull a funny face, the wind will blow and it will get stuck.
I used to believe the “spleen” was a joke. It had a funny name and I guess it was mentioned in cartoons for it, and I never read about it in my kids’ biology books so I assumed it wasn’t even real.
When I was small, my brother would bug me and say that if my hand was bigger than my head, I had a tumor.
i had a really sweet tooth and i asked my mum when it would fall out...
My parents made me believe that if I touched wood with chemicals on it, the next day the body part would be gone. Oh the horrible things my brother and sister use to do with me because of that..
My mom told me that if you didn't eat enough carrots, your eyesite would suffer.
when we were little my mother would tell us when we were mad and stuck out our lower lip that she would trip over it then she would walk by and pretend to trip
I used to think that areola was a type of flower that my mom had in the backyard. Like, "Mom, I hope your areolas survived the harsh winter".
A classmate said that if you didn't have a birthmark it meant you were an alien. That day I went home and stripped to find no birthmark. My dad found me crying and explained that if you didn't have a belly-button, you were an alien. I was so relieved because I knew I had one of those!
When I was about 4, my Mum was telling my brother how the heart was just like a pump. I was convinced that I would blow up like a balloon, and cried my eyes out.
When I was about 4 I asked my mum what my tongue was made of and she said "blood vessels." For the next 14 years I thought that my tongue was made of arteries and if I cut it badly I would bleed to death.
At age 18 I went to medical school and was really annoyed with my mum after a couple of weeks there when I found out my tongue is mostly muscle. Her excuse is that she didn't know so she just made up an answer. Years of worry for nothing!
I was little and really wanted my teeth to come out because all of my friends' teeth already had. I asked my dad one day if not brushing my teeth would help them fall out..he led me to believe the more I brushed my teeth, that is, the cleaner I kept them, the quicker they would fall out. Later I learned that teeth fall out when they are decaying.