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I used to believe that a soul was a cone-shaped pearly object located somehwere in the chest cavity between the rib cage and lungs. I have no idea from where this image stems.

LC

When I was little I couldn't figure out how people had earrings on their ears. I vaguely thought people had holes punched in their ears, but discarded that idea almost immediately. "Why would people punch holes in their ears?" I thought. I do not know when I learned the truth. Surprisingly enough, I now have my ears pierced!

Emigabbly

When i was in second grade, a lot of kids in my class liked to say this one stupid joke.

One kid would ask another kid where someone or something was, and they would respond, "Up your butt and around the corner."

I actually believed that there was a corner up your butt. I thought that there was a bunch of corners, turns, stairs, doors, hallways... like a maze.

Lecia

I used to think that my body was actually a mechanized vehicle, which was controlled by tiny people in my head and throughout my body. A man in a suit controls my body movements. Also, I thought that different parts of my body were housing different things. I thought my stomach was the cafeteria for the crew (LOL.) I also believed that whenever i got cut, the skin would be repaired by little engineers inside my skin. Finally learned the truth when we studied the human body in 8th grade.

Stevensonbak

I used to believe that your brain was a red rubber ball inside your head.

Greg

I used to believe that if u went out in the sun for too long your brain would melt and come out of your nose as snot.

girish

When I was a kid I was amused that you could move your knee cap so I would do it constantly. So one dad my dad decided to tell me that if I kept doing it that my knee cap would fall off. So I wouldn't even touch my knee cap after that until my dad finally told me it wasn't true when I was 11.

Miranda

I thought my brain would explode if it was in the sun too long

Heather

I used to believe that cuticles (that white part under your fingernails) were an indication of how big a liar you were. The bigger the cuticles, the more lies you told.

Patrick

In order to put braces on they drilled holes throgh your teeth and stuck brackets in the holes My brother told me that right before i got my braces on and found out that they cement them on!!!!

Anon

i used to believe that my knucles where aliens trying to escape my body because i had a bad habit of rubbing my knuckles

mimi

When I was in the 1st grade...I think, we were learning how the body works and what it is made of. So I asked my aunt and she said "mostly bones and tissues" so I went back to school and told my teachers and all my classmates people were made out of toilet tissue. I was instantly corrected. I cried.

squirt

When I was little I found out that if I sucked on my arm I would get this big red mark.(hickey) So then I showed my mom and she told me if you ever get one of those they have to remove that body part because it was harmful... It scared the crap out of me for years!

Anon

Whe I was little I thought that being left handed meant that you didn't have a right hand. Found out the truth the first day of first grade when I told the teacher and the class that I could not do the Pledge of Allegiance since I did not have a right hand.I

Patti

I used to think there was an ant inside of my brain that controlled everything I did. Whenever I at Cheerios, I thought they were going to the ant.

I also thought that my heart pounding in my ears meant that there was a lion prowling around, trying to eat the ant in my brain.

Stupid

One day my friend's tooth fell and he swallowed it , and his father said it would grow a teeth tree inside him, and after this I never swallowed a tooth.

souto and raul

I used to be very thin when I was a little kid, I was so thin you could see my ribs. I remember once, I first noticed my ribs when I was getting out of the bath tub, I looked in the mirror, and saw what I thought were little wings, that were inside of me, pressing against my skin, ready to POP out, that thought scared me so bad. (Scene changes to Vacation Bible School) Shortly after the incident in the bathroom, I would be careful not to have pressure on my stomach, for fear those "wings" would pop out. In Bible School that day, the girls were supposed to sing some song, and were supposed to play as Angels. The boys got to play with animal puppet things, I was afraid, that if I was to sing with the other "Angels" it would cause my "wings" to pop out, and besides that, I wanted to play with the puppets, so when the song came on, I refused to sing, I sat there, with my arms crossed, when the teacher noticed, and came up to me, to ask me to sing, I felt a strange pressure in my stomach (At the time, I thought it was from hearing the music. I later realized that was because I didn't get anything to eat that morning) I was thinking "Oh no, this is it!" and I almost cried, then the teacher said she was going to replay the song until I sang with the rest of the girls, that's when I exploded (not literally) I was so mad, I started screaming and when they told me to calm down, so I can sing with the rest of the "Angels" I screamed "I don't want to be an Angel!" I ran to the puppets and grabbed them, and tried to crawl under a desk and play with them, I saw the teacher leave, and I sat there thinking "Thank the Lord, that B**** is gone." I was sure I was going to be left alone, until the teacher came back in, and started settling down the other kids, not 30 minutes after, my mom comes in the room, and makes me get out from under the table, the teacher never said anything to me, just talked to my mom, who came to get me early, because of what I did. Then mom grabbed my arm and started pulling me from the class room, I turned towards the teacher and said "I want to finger-paint here tomorrow!" and when mom and I were outside, she looked at me and said "You are going to Hell, I know it...." By the way, I never got to finger-paint the next day, I haven't been to Bible school since. All because of my stupid wings, I mean ribs....Oh well, I can't see them anymore! ; )

Bethany