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I used to believe that if someone hit my back while I was making a face, my face would stick that way forever! One time my Grandma hit my Grandpa when he was making faces at me during dinner. He pretended to be stuck. I am still traumatized!

I used to believe people's names changed as they got older. You know, I just couldn't picture a baby named Myrtle or George - I just thought as you got older, your name changed to suit your age. And I distinctly remember asking my mom one morning if my baby sister's name was still Christine. She must've thought I was nuts.

I used to believe that it was only acceptable to wear a bathrobe and slippers if you were a girl. My parents made me wear slippers all the time, and bathrobe with my pajamas, so while I obeyed the rules, I always felt a little weird. I remember asking my mom why I had to wear them, I'm not a girl. She just brushed it off and said that all good boys wear robes and slippers. Eventually I stopped caring and noticed that guys do wear them, just not as much as girls do

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When I was in first grade I told this one girl that it was my half birthday (birthday plus six months). She told me that if you pay attention to half birthdays you'll always be shorter. I was horrified, because she was so much taller than I was!

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When I was born, my parent's never gave me a middle name. When I asked my parents why, they'd tell me it was because we were poor and that it cost extra to have a middle name. Then when I was 15 and I met my (then) boyfriend's parents, they asked my what my middle name was. I explained to them that I didn't have one. They asked "why?" I told them it was because my parents couldn't afford one. They explained back to me that they thought that was very odd, because they didn't have much money when they had kids, and that they didn't have to pay extra for their kids' middle names. I had FINALLY figured out after all those years my parents had me fooled.

I was a very big "story teller" when I was about 4 or 5, so my mother told me that green smoke came out of my ears everytime I lied. Soon I started telling stories while covering my ears with my hands.

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My Step daughter kept annoying me about the tattos on my arms and so I finally broke down and told her that when I was her age my mom told me not to draw or write on myself and I didnt listen, a few days later she was crying hysterically and I asked her what was wrong and she told me that her little cousin was drawing on her back and she went on to explain that she cant reach to wash her own back so it will be there forever !!!!!! hahahaha

I used to think my uncle Richard was Desi Arnaz. Don't ask me why, because I have no freaking idea. But a couple of days ago I looked at him and thought, "Hey, he actually sort of looks like Desi Arnaz..."

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When I was a little kid, I thought R.I.P had something to do with parties. So when it came to my birthday and I was writing invitations to my party for my friends, I happily wrote on the bottom "R.I.P" instead of "R.S.V.P"

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This is probably common but I will tell my tale. When my brother said a classmate of his wore panty hose one day I imagined someone wearing a garden hose for pants. I don't think my brother bothered to correct me.

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my mom used to tell me if i made a silly face at my sister that it would stick and i'd look like that forever. so one day i was goofing off with my sister when my face 'stuck' and i went around the house with googlie eyes and my tougne sticking out and showed my mom. boy was she scared when i told her i was stuck like that.

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When I was little I was facinated by dimples because only some people had them and others didn't. For some reason I decided that people got dimples because when they were in their mother's bellies before they were born somebody had poked them in their cheeks too often and that's how they were created. Don't ask me how they did it but that's what I believed...

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When I was little, around 6 or 7, my older sister was afraid of spiders. Since I wasn't and she didn't like that I wasn't she made me scared of them by telling me that everytime you fell asleep with your mouth open or woke up with your mouth open it meant that you ate a spider. I would try to keep my mouth closed everytime I was ready to sleep and if I woke up with my mouth open I got freaked out that I had eaten a spider until I was around 10.

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When ever I had to put on a Turtle neck shirt as a kid, maybe 6 or 7 years old, I would believe it was chocking me because it was too tight. I really believed that it was strangling me when i was wearing it. So one day my mom , desperate to get me dresed in a hurry, told me that it wasnt a turtle neck, that in fact, it was a lion neck. I thought that lions were brave and strong ( I also really like the movie 'The Lion King' at that time) so I thought it should be alright. I believed that until i stoped wearing them cause the look goofy.

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When I was little, I thought very year you had a birthday, you went into someone else's body, but your eyes, and your brain were the same still. Haha. I don't know why. I guess I was odd.

I always wondered who "Anon" was, and wondered what he or she was like, and what exactly he did, because he said so many different things.