body parts: general

I never knew that the tooth grew back after you lost it, so I always was so scared when I got my first loose tooth and I always tried to put them back in..until the age of maybe about 10.

When i was 5, i went to the dentist and they found 2 cavaties and i had to get caps...i was clueless what they were but i imagined those plastic soda bottle caps on my teeth and thought how uncomfortable that would be!

When I was little and my mum used to take me to see the Chinese New Year parades, I used to think that the people in the dragon costumes had no upper part to their body, as all you could see were their legs dancing. Therefore if you removed the costume you'd find a dozen pairs of legs with no bodies.

When I heard the term "broken heart", I thought the heart was literaly brocken or cracked. I thought if I fell out of a tree, I might break my heart. (like break my arm or leg). A conversation could go like this: "He fell out of a second-story window and broke his heart."

I thought you have to have pointy feet like a Barbie in order to wear high heels. So at night in bed I would try to keep my feet in this position, so that I can wear high heels when I'm older.

When I was 2 my younger brother was born. I remember waiting for his penis to fall off like his umbilical cord (after all mine did, RIGHT?). I even remember explaining to our babysitter that his umbilical cord fell off, so his penis needed to fall off too! How she managed to continue changing his diaper and not fall on the ground laughing, I'll never know.

My brothers told me that if you pinched your nose and closed your mouth, you could breath out your ears. They would show me, it looked so easy, but I could never do it!

when I was young I heard about people getting very bad concussions and how they needed to be woken up every so often or they could slip into a coma. So, I believed that no matter how minor a concussion, if you fell asleep, you'd go in a coma and die. I finally got a minor concussion at 16 and learned that I didn't have to keep myself awake.

When I would hear my pulse in my ear, I thought there was a little person playing a drum. I thought this was what an eardrum was.

I used to think that the human body was a big bag full of blood and that our skin was like a water balloon, holding it all in. When a person got a cut or scrape, it was as if the balloon had sprung a leak!

When I was little.My older sister Silvia told me,that if her and I both wished really hard we would grow a tail of the animal of our choice.My mom told her that.My sister and me both wanted the tail of a fox.:) When we got older we realized it would proably never happen.So we stoped and we got pretty bumed.

when i was about 5 or 6 i believed that all women had feet shaped like barbie
doll feet. if you have ever taken a look at them, they are permanently shaped
to fit into high heels.

I called every body part my elbow. For example if my leg hurt I would say my elbow hurt.

One day i had hurt my head really bad and ran in screaming to my mom. She asked me what was wrong, and I told her that i had hurt my 'Two-Head'. She asked me if I meant my four head, and I told her that i wasn't four yet. I still get teased about it to this day.

I was a very forgetful child and my parents would often say to me that I had a head like a sieve. I thought a sieve was some kind of weird insect that had an incredibly small brain and had no room to remember things and the things that it did remember leaked out of the antenae. The insects were red.

When I was very little my mom and I would sit on the floor with her behind me. Then she would start picking through my hair on the back of my head. She would get real excited and say "I found it! She found the hole in my head where she would then take out a pieces Chicklets gum! I used to go crazy trying to find the hole in my head where the gum lived!