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When I was about 5 or 6, I assumed that since blood was red, it was strawberry flavored. My siblings and cousins must have thought I was crazy when I asked if I could lick their cuts.

Sami

I used to think that only girls had pink fingernails because they painted them. One night I was round a friend's house and I noticed my own nails, and was pretty freaked out, because they were pink. I think I went skittling to my mum about it.

Chris D.

I never knew what the purpose of an appendix was. Since the doctors are able to remove it I figured it wasn't that viable of a body part. My father told me that it was used for eating rocks, back in the caveman days. Since we don't eat rocks anymore doctors could remove it.

I never understood how we could get more blood either. My father explained that the body squeezes all of the organs it doesn't use anymore (like the appendix) and gets the blood from them.

I had both of these beliefs until high school.

Jeremy Bloss

I was little and really wanted my teeth to come out because all of my friends' teeth already had. I asked my dad one day if not brushing my teeth would help them fall out..he led me to believe the more I brushed my teeth, that is, the cleaner I kept them, the quicker they would fall out. Later I learned that teeth fall out when they are decaying.

sophie

i used to believe that you only had as much blood as was in your body and if you got a cut that bled you had to save that blood somehow or you would run out...the other kids thought it was pretty gross that i sucked my own cuts.

Anon

One day i HAD to go to the dentist. My dentist said to me "if i turn ur nose upside down when it rains youll drown!" So until 1rst grade when ever that dentist put a tool near my face i thought she was going to use it to turn my nose upside down!

Chelsea #11

I used to believe that my immune system were a bunch of little soldiers

Anon

When I was little my sister told me that my mom was taking me to the dentist and then I would never have any teeth again. Fortunatly that didn't happen.

Jacqueline W.

I challenged my little brother to bite his ear. After twisting his head and whirling around in circles for ceaseless hours, he still remained convinced that he would eventually nibble that ear.

Nibbles

My dad would wear one of his 20 year old college shirts to bed and I always thought the wholes in the armpits were from my dad sweating so much, because he was always stinky

Eliza

When I would stumble as a little kid, my grandfather would say, "Look out! You'll slip and rupture your gizzard!" I didn't realize until I was 14 years old that humans have teeth, don't swallow stones in order to grind raw grain, and therefore, don't NEED gizzards.

John

I used to think that there were little elf type creatures making my body functions work, such as slicing up my food better, tickeling my nose and beating up the germs.

Hannah Joy

I snuck downstairs early one morning to throw away my mom's donar card because I thought that they just came for you at any time when they needed your organs

zebra

I used to believe that you only had a belly when u were older, and when i was 10 and i went swimming and my grandmother said look at your little belly i got worried and thought i was too young

josie

My dad made me believe that he could tell wen I was lying or not. He'd tell me to stick out my tougne, if it was white I was telling the truth and if it was black I was lying.

Rachel.D

When we were little I told my little sister that her butt was black. This made her cry and she would tell me that she didn't believe me. I would "prove" it by asking her if it wasn't true that her poop was dark. Since she couldn't really get a good look at her little behind (of course *I* wouldn't have suggested a mirror!) I almost succeeded in making her believe it.

Georgia

When I was young and I first heard the term "box your ears" I always imagined someone taking a hole punch to someones earlobes and punching a hole through them. To this day, I still do not understand this term.

Amanda

When I was about 4 I asked my mum what my tongue was made of and she said "blood vessels." For the next 14 years I thought that my tongue was made of arteries and if I cut it badly I would bleed to death.

At age 18 I went to medical school and was really annoyed with my mum after a couple of weeks there when I found out my tongue is mostly muscle. Her excuse is that she didn't know so she just made up an answer. Years of worry for nothing!

Mhairi

i went with my mother when she went to get her ears pierced when i was younger and there was a sign of all the piercings they did.. and they did scrotom piercings and back then i didnt know what that was so when i asked my mother she told me it was the skin in between your toes so i went around telling people i was gettin my scrotom pierced

brianna