body parts: general

My aunt Toodie told us a variety of scary tales when we were kids. Among them was that one's anus was held together by something she called a "pucker string".

Aunt Toodie went on to warn us that an especially large, hard stool might break the pucker string, at which point an emergency operation would be necessary to prevent our "guts" from falling out through the de-puckered anus.

As a child the idea thought that my pucker string might break terrified me. It was only until about the fourth grade, and after a few embarrassed furtive question and answer sessions with trusted playmates, that I finally figured out that a "pucker string" was just one of the many products of aunt Toodies' spectacularly inventive imagination.

My history teacher is extreamly laid-back and we never do much work on Fridays. One day the whole class was sitting around talking when my teacher opens his phone to read a text message and then says "Wow! My boy is 23 inches long!" I went the whole day very upset that my teacher would say such a vulgar thing to his students.

I then realized that he was talking about his son who was born about 2 months earlier. I couldn't believe myself.

when i was little i thought that if you eat many sweeties, one day you can take your teeth out... just like false teeth.
as a matter of fact i used to believe that dentures were not false at all but that once you get old your gums get loose to the point that you can take them out.
i didn't like to brush my teeth and thought it would be easier that way.

When I was little I had my little brother and sister thuroughly convinced that their bones were plastic and their skin was fabric! They were so gullible and I was so evil! Hahah!

when i was 6-7,my mom told me that if we tense our muscle where it is to be injected, the needle breaks and enters into bloodstream and reaches our heart and can cause death. now i m in nursing course, only to find out the truth that tensed muscle can hardly let the needle to go in the muscle.

As most parents do, mine told me I was dropped on my head as a baby. Throughout my life I had often told people in conversation that the doctor had dropped me on my head unaware of the fact that my parents had told me that as a joke. I didn't relize this until I was in eighth grade.

I used to think that a shin was the pelvic bones that stick out. I thought it was strange that people and books always said that someone banged ther shin because I never did and it was a strange place to bang. I found out when I was in High School and everyone had a good laugh!

When I was a kid, I believed that when you got older your teeth fell out. I knew so many older people had false teeth that the assumption I made was that they must just fall out as you get older, like when you lose your baby teeth when you're a kid. Let me tell you I was VERY relieved to learn that regular brushing, flossing and trips to the dentist would keep my teeth in place.

when i was about 5, i was a real goofy kid and id always make goofy faces. my brothers got so sick and tired of it so they said that if i made a goofy face and held it for over a minute, my face would remain that way forever. i believed this so much that i didnt even think of making a goofy face at anyone for the longest time.

When I was about 7 my older sister (13) had one of those little tiny flies go in her ear and she couldn't get it out. My Mom took her to the hospital and when they came back they told me that the doctor took a hose and sprayed water in her ear and the fly came out the other ear.

I not only believed this but I told people this ACTUALLY HAPPENED until I was 12 or so. I didn't get that it was a joke until even later.

I used to believe that it was possible to make yourself not ticklish! I am EXTREMLY ticklish - any contact on my tummy or soles can feel like almost agony.

But stupidly when I was about 12 I let all my friends pin me down on my back with my arms up and tickle me non stop for 5 mins straight, no breaks
I was practicly in tears and TOTALY hysterical and frantic the whole time!

And I am still just as ticklish

i seriously used to believe that a person's soul was a big opal-colored oval in their hips. i have no idea how i came to this conclusion, but i still kind of think that. ...and i'm 15 now.

when i was little my dad used to tell me to cut my fingernails or tonails well i hated it and i said that it hurts. so to make me cut my nails my dad would telll me i would turn green if i didnt cut them and i would get a disease i bellivedd this until i was 12 im 23 now.

I used to think when I was little that you had three *tubes* in your mouth... one for solid food, one for liquid and one for breathing!

I used to think that because people always referred to losing teeth as the roots coming out, there were tiny trees in my mouth. So one day I lost my tooth and I screamed "NO, MY TREE WILL DIE NOW!!!"

we used to believe that when we sneezed a tiny bit of our brain fell out! and we got dumber. so we used to try not to sneeze and put our fingers up our nose to prevent sneezing! those were the days!!