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My birth certificate has my feet print on either side of my mother's right thumb print. Before I could read, my mother told me that I had been born with an extra toe and that the "thumb" print was really that of my extra toe which had been removed shortly after birth.

Boo

I used to think the human brain was the shape of a typical dog bone. I realized how far off I was when my fifth grade teacher brought in a real brain. I was mad at her for a long time for showing us the ugly truth, but at least I could see where we get our convoluted logic from.

Whiz Kid

When I was a small child. (about 4 or 5), I used to believe that your soul was a vital organ. I thought it was near the stomach.

Mrs.Naraku

I used to believe that if I didn't clean my ears that carrots would grow inside.

Gilian

When I was little, my Mom used to tell me that girl's feet didn't stink, but instead smelled like flowers. I think I believed this until a few years ago.

Josh

I used to believe that if I didnt wash behind my ears, they'd fall off...

Karina

For some reason...unbeknownst to us all, my grandmother told us that if we ever kissed our elbow we would turn into the opposite sex. I had no idea what that was about since we had never tried such a thing! I don't even know if it can be done. I am ashamed to say, I have always been afraid to try on the off chance I make contact! :-)

Anon

When i was a kid i thought that my head was filled with flies. i thought that if i hit my head really hard it would break open and all the flies would fly out. i figured that all the little brains they had is what made up a persons one big brain.

Lets fly

When I was little, my uncle used to tell me that if I kept biting the center porttion of my upper lip, it would eventually grow to be the size of an apple or even a watermelon. Can you imagine... an apple size growth in the middle of your face!! :-)

Kista

i use to coach a little girl who was convinced that she didn't have any blood ... she was about 4 ... one day she cut herself and started freaking out because "there is blood coming out of me"

mekare

i used to believe that people were made of hotdogs. like if you got a finger or a limb cut off, there wouldn't be bones or veins or anything. just "meat".
but if you got your head cut off there would be a tube in the middle of the hotdog, like those cheese filled ones...

rhea

I used to think that wisdom teeth came when you had too much knowledge to fit in your brain so it was put in extra teeth...until I got some of my own hehe

Anon

I used to believe that tonsils were popsicle sticks. Not sure why, maybe because I ate so many when I had mine out.

Anne

We had the Childcraft series of kiddie encyclopedias - volume 5, I believe, was all about the human body. There was a picture of a boy & girl showing their intestines, stomach, etc - but for some reason, the boy figure, turned slightly, only had a few loops of intestine drawn, I guess just to represent the space normally taken up by all the intestines. The girl, shown head-on, had the typical full set of intestines drawn. I believed that girls had more "guts" than boys and that's why most women had bigger stomachs and hips than men.

Tiff-tiff the terrible

When I was small, I remember watching my elderly grandmother take off her dentures to wash them. Then she would put them back in.
I was always confused as to why my teeth weren't able to come off but hers were!

myukiori

I used to believe that if you wore socks to bed, your toes would fall off because they would get too hot and not be able to breathe. My friend's older sister told me this at a sleepover when I was 8 years old.

Amy