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I used to think you were born with more than 2 sets of teeth because the roof of your mouth is bumpy...I thought those bumps were sets of teeth. Basically I thought you just kept losing and gaining new teeth all the time.

Noreen

I used to believe that when people with big ears got angry, their ears would go a rather nice shade of red and flap, thus enabling them to fly (obviously).
I swear I once saw Tony Blair ranting and raving in MY airspace!

Blair-Spotter

I used to believe that the inside of us was totally empty. There was a stomach and some bones and blood, but basically we were just inflatable people. Also, I thought that when you swallowed something it could go anywhere, and land on a bone, and then you would die. And I knew that bones made blood, but I always wondered how the blood got out of there, so I figured the bones broke in half, dumped the blood out, then went back together.

Brianne

My cousin kevin used to tell me my head had fallen off, I would then go looking for it under the table.....

Amy Mulhern (age 27)

i used to believe that when you had fitted braces people called them train track and i thought that little trains would go round your mouth so i always looked after my teeth and when i was in yr 3 my friend had braces and i asked what trains they were and now every1 laughd at me because of my belief!

beth92

i used to believe that little men lived inside you and would fix you when you got ill or cut yourself and that you ate when the little people got hungry, so i would eat all my food so that the little people would be happy and make me strong and stuff....

luke

When I was in elementary school, I always wondered how boys got Adams’s apples. So one day I asked my sister what it was and how it got there and she told me that when boys are born, they have six fingers on one hand. They would bite one finger off and it would always get stuck in their throats no matter how many times they would swallow.

KeyKey

i used to believe that the more i sucked my thumb the longer it would grow sooo much i would have to get it cut off

stupid thumb

My mother has a long scar running down the small of her back along her tailbone, and my older sister always told me that that was the remnant of a tail-removal surgery and that the offending body part was stowed away in a drawer in my mother's bureau. I believed from around the ages of 4 til 10 or 11 that if I was naughty my mother would get her tail out and beat me with it.

Dana K.

I was ambidextrous (meaning I could write with both hands). The day before I got my flu shot in kindergarten, my older sister told me that, since they give you the shot in the arm you don't write with, I'd have to get two! I promptly decided that I was left handed, and haven't been able to use my right hand since.

Jamie

I used to believe that "pierced ears" were called "purest ears." Having holes in earlobes for earrings was something a lady was naturally born with, and somewhat rare, like having naturally curly hair. Grandma often got earrings on her birthday for her "purest ears" and back in the early sixties (greater Seattle area) most earrings were clip-on. Back then pierced ears not as common as they are today. And whoever heard of multiple piercings plus pierced this and that?

granddaughter not born with purest ears

When I was little, for some reason I used to think that your feet were "private parts", and that wearing sandals was really rude! I never liked showing anyone my feet or looking at anybody elses.

Nay

My aunt was born without a middle finger and when I was little I asked my dad where it went. He said that she takes it off and puts it in the freezer when she makes meatballs. i told all of my firneds and we ran to her house to see her finger in the freezer. She laughed and told me it wasnt true, but i still believed it for a while.

Joe

I used to think that your teeth fell out because of little men inside your gums. The little men held on to the end of your ooth and when they got old they died and let go, allowing your tooth to fall out. A new tooth coming through ment that a new man had been placed there.

Anon

I used to think that if you want to measure something in feet (unit) you have to take your foot out and count how many you've measured. grrr haha.

Trang N.

Once when I was young, I pointed out to my little sister that some of my teeth were called K9s, because I was 9 and my name was Katrina. I explained that she had N7s as she was only 7 and called Natasha. Apparently she believed this for years!

Katrina

I used to think if you got your leg cut off there would only be a layer of skin, a layer of meat, and a layer of bone...like a cartoon.

kja

My brother said that is you feel an earthquick-ish feeling in your foot it will turn blue.

Sammy