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When I was a little girl we had a pediatrician named Dr. Chua. My brother called her Dr. Chew-A-Bone. Because of this I pictured my doctor as a large St. Bernard in a lab coat! I believed she was dog!

Mal

My mum used to dry flowers at home by hanging them from string in the kitchen. One day when i was about 4 I found a box of tampons...I thought she had hung mice out to dry by thier tails! Poor mice.

Shannon, Australia

when my little sis and i were young, my dad told us that she was a monkey we got from the zoo and he and mom had to shave her every night. she hates that story

critty

I used to think that all lions were boys and tigers were girls.

Anon

When I was in the third-grade, my teacher told me that we were adopting a manatee. We had to donate a dollar so we could adopt her. I was so excited and waited every day for the tank to arrive. (I also imagined places in the classroom where we could put it.)At the end of the year I asked her why the tank still wasn't here, because she had told us that manatees need to live in water and swim around. Then she told me that we weren't actually getting a manatee and that we were just donating money to help her. I was very disappointed that day.

Anon

When i was younger i ised to belive that it was a bunny as in the cagberry egg bunny who laid the plastic easter egges it wasnt intil i was 11 i went to a easter egg hunt and i asked where the egg laying bunny was they said that the eggs came from a factory, ever since that day i have been so embarrassed when easter rolled around.

Im so stupid

To clean the goldfish you put washing up liquid into its bowl.

Sev

When I was 7 a big kid told me dragonflies shot arrows from their back. I was afraid of dragonflies for 7 years.

Dan

I used to believe that llamas had two heads. I was obviously convinced by the special effects in Dr Dolittle. When I first saw one with only one head I reasoned that it was a different breed. I won't admit to how old I was when I came to this conclusion.

helen

When I was a boy I flushed my fish down the toilet thinking that it would go to its mommy and daddy.

Jeremy Clark

When I was little I learned about micro-organisms, and how they were tiny invisible creatures that were all around us. So when my friend was sleeping over, she thought she heard a voice, and we became convinced the micro-organisms were talking to her! I had read a book that said you could fit a certain number of them on a head of a pin, just to demonstrate how small they are. But we took this to mean that they lived on pins, so we spent a long time staring at a head of a "pin" (it was actually a thumb-tack) and trying to contact the micro-organisms! We were strange kids.

Evilrabbit

i used to believe that horses were canibals and if you were alone with one it would eat you in under 15 seconds my sister said they did and she made me really scared. idiot

Frank

My sister is a college student and just this past easter she and her room-mate admitted to believing that rabits lay eggs since you always see eggs and rabits on easter. We still haven't let them live that down.

Kayla

when i was about 7 or 8 my mom told me not to give my dog choclate because it was bad for them. So i assumed that Cats couldnt have vannilla. I later found out otherwise

Phillip

My dad told me that polyester was made from the fur of a small animal. He said they kept them in pens and killed them by stabbing them in the eye with a needle. I thougt this until we got a set of encyclopedias and I was able to look up polyester and find out that it's a synthetic fabric.

Andrea

i used to believe that if you ate an animal its ghost would live in your tummy. that sparked some of my earliest (but unsuccessful) attempts at being a vegetarian.

Branlyan Smayth

We had a wooden crocodile from Africa and my brother told me it was just dried out, and if I poured water on it, it would come alive. I believed it, and even warned my friends not to do that or it would eat us!

Jon

Up to this day, (I'm 18), I believed that chickens self-reproduced. Never in my wildest dreams would I assume that roosters and hens did the wild nature dance. Or cows and almost every other animal for that matter. I got schooled by my roomates, who basically laughed in my face. It was like sex education all over again. I was in denial I thought that farmers just had to feed there chickens until they got fat and the chickens didn't have any room left in their tummies so an egg would come out. What has the world come too?

Caitlin

my friend actually thought that dinosaurs were not real.
she thought that they were made up like unicorns.
she is 15.

Anon

When I was little, looking at National Geographic magazines, I believed that if you touched the mouth of any of the creatures they could bite you. To this day I am still very careful when turning pages in one.

Emily