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I used to believe…

When i was 4, the adults in my family told me that if i made funny faces, my face would remain as such. for years i feared mking funny faces and told my friends to be careful.

I used to believe…

when i was little and would lie my mom would tell me that my nouse was growing from lying. so when she would say that i would always look in the mirror becuz i thought it was

I used to believe…

My dad was in the Navy when I was small so I grew to love all things naval. We would watch all of the war films, especially the naval ones. There was one film which showed the men in the torpedo room wearing white masks on their faces whilst loading the torpedoes. "Why do they wear those masks, dad?" I asked. He replied, "That's only the men with false teeth - it's so they don't fall into the tube and jam the torpedoes." This is another one I truly believed and even relayed this knowledge to others!

I used to believe…

When I was a child my dad was in the Navy. He used to tell me stories when he was home about life at sea. He said he loved standing on the deck as the sun was going down at the end of the day. He told me that just as the last of the sun was disappearing beneath the horizon, at the very last second, there would be a BIG BLUE FLASH before the darkness of night. I hung on his every word and truly believed this. I related this wondrous "fact" to others throughout my life until one day, when I was about 22(!) he overheard me and laughed, and said, "You didn't believe me, did you?" This is one of many stories . . . .

I used to believe…

About four years ago my brother and I were talking and we somehow got onto the conversation of cross-dressing (he was around ten at the time). For some reason I told him that Ronan Keating (the singer) was cross-dresser. I never thought any more about it until one night about a month ago when he mentioned it and I reluctantly had to inform him that I had been joking! The poor boy had believed that for four years!

I used to believe…

My horrible cousin once told me that when girls turned 8 they changed into boys, and vice versa boys into girls. I totally believed him, and although I was a bit of a tomboy the thought of actually BEING a stupid mean boy with a stupid floppy willy horrified me so much I was in floods of tears for the rest of the day, it took my parents ages to convince me it wouldn't happen. It seemed so unfair, you know?

i alwaysed wondered what i would look like when i was 17. so when i turned 17 i was stunned that there wasnt a drastic change from 16 to 17. man was i dissapointed

I used to believe…

My little sister use to get into arguments with me becuase I was born in November and she was born in July and so she thought that meant that she was older. She was really 2 years younger, but she didn't understand the concept of years.

I used to believe…

When I was in seventh grade I believed there was a left handed screwdriver. My teacher told me to go home and look for one. Come to find out theres no such thing.

i used to think that if you had identical twins, you would give them the same first name.

of course, any identical twins i met were the exeption to that rule..

I used to believe…

me and my dad both thought that there were left and right socks and when i couldnt find a left and right socks i would ask my mum for a right sock i could borrow

I used to believe…

when i was little, my mom always bought me those cool colored socks. i was so excited to wear my new purple ones one day, so i put them on right away. that night, when i took the socks off my feet, i noticed that my feet were all purple. i was terrified that soon i would turn all purple too, like the girl in 'charlie and the chocolate factory'. it was SO scary

I once asked my mam how she chose my name and she said that God came down to her and told her what to call me (a bit like jesus!)she even told me to phone my godmother who was very religious at that time and for some reason she agreed with my mam!I was very confused at this and worried in case when i had kids god gave them a name i didnt like!!i believed this until i was about 7!!

I never could understand why my brother was older than me when my birthday came first. My birthday is in April and his is in May, I just never understood that it mattered what year you were born in :0)

I used to believe…

My older brother's name is Dan and mine is Sam, so when my father would address me, he would usually say, "Damn!, er Da, Sam whatever your name is!" It was pretty confusing, especially when he got mad when I said, "Damn!" I mean what was wrong with saying my own name?

i used to think the term "tom"-boy could be changed to any name you want. i still remember when i was 7, and my friend said she thinks she's a tom boy, i turned to her and said "oh..well, i'm a William-boy!"