body parts: general

i used to believe that boys had three balls and everyone had the same birthmark as me on their wrist.

Okay. For a while, up until last summer, I somehow thought I could get a deadly disease through my own blood or something, or maybe thought I could somehow pass a horrible disease to my guardians if they touched me and I was wearing an even-slightly-bloodied article of clothing. So I was afraid of my own blood, and the Time Of Month was even worse because of that. I was afraid to touch my own blood. Finally my guardian told me how futile it was to fear my own blood...I already know what's in MY blood.

I still do not like getting blood on things, even my own blood, but at least now I know a disease isn't gonna magically appear out of thin air if I get my blood on something.

I used to think that if you poked yourself with a needle you
Would get an infection.

When I was young my cousins told me that when you had an ear ache, it was because there was an earwig inside of your ear. I had always had problems with my ears, and still do, so that scared me. Especially when one of my youngers brothers friends actually HAD had one in their ear as a baby.

I'm still scared of earwigs to this day, although I know they are not in my ears!

My parents used to tell me that if I repeatedly kept pulling faces, Id stick like it when the wind blew....yeah right!

My mom told me one day the girls had candy in them becuase she said "some are sweet and some that are sour"

I used to believe that women who wore high heeled shoes did so because that was the actual shape of their foot, heel, wedge and all.

I used to think the word 'belly' was a swear word, and would get upset if I heard someone say it.

this belief isn't mine but my older sisters, i don't think she would mind it if i shared as long as she's anonymous,
until she was about 16 she believed that my best friend has a cow's heart because of a joke her mother made when we were little kids.

I used to believe that "spare ribs" were extra bones that weren't medically necessary, and could be removed like an appendix or spleen. This belief was bolstered by an urban legend about Marilyn Manson having some lower ribs removed, that I heard later in life.

This belief was debunked, last month, by my fiancee. I'm 29.

I use to believe that you always had to swallow your saliva in your mouth every 8 seconds or so. I found out when I was 7 that you didn't when I watched an interesting show on TV. I was so engrossed that I forgot to swallow and actually thought I would die.

i used to think i had 2 noses!

When I was a child, I used to believe that if I cut my nails at nighttime the mice could eat my nails and then change of mine. So I never cut my nails at nighttime.

I USED TO THINK MY FOOT WAS ACTUALLY DEAD WHEN IT WENT ALL TINGLY. I THOUGHT IT WAS SO SERIOUS WHEN THAT HAPPENED. AND I USED TO SQUINT AT THE CEILING AND IMAGINE THAT IT RESEMBLED PICTURES, OR MOVED A LITTLE BIT AND LOOKED LIKE MOVIE SCENES, BUT LATER MOM TOLD ME IT WAS BECAUSE I HAD A BAD FEVER WHEN I WAS TWO YEARS OLD. magik and the O.T.O betwixt.

my sister used to believe that it's the pair of shoes that reduce in terms of size not our feet which become bigger than the shoes

i used to believe that i was normal until this year when i figured out my elbows, fingers, sholder, and knuckles were all double jointed