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My Nan used to tell me Germans would destroy my teeth if I didn't brush them at night. For years I'd go to bed with visions of Nazi's bashing my teeth with their guns. Finally, aged around 8 I realised she was talking about germs.
At the same time I believed I had fleas living in my hair as my dad used to sit me down and break their backs with his nails. The sound of the nails cracking was pretty effective and I used to sit dead still while he spent several minutes saying: "Here's one, snap!' "Hold one! And another one!" Etc.
Finally, I was very confused as to why our neighbours, the Meek family, (three boys around my age who tortured earth worms) would inherit the earth. I used to glance at Robert during school assembly racking my brains trying to work out why they were the chosen ones.
Michele
When I got a wart on my finger I thought if it touched anywhere the wart would spread so I spent days bending my pinkie finger away from the others My mom noticed and told me I would bend the bone like that. For months I thought I had.
Danielle
When I was little and played with my Barbies, I noticed that if you pulled on their legs, the leg would just pop right out from the hip. From then on, I thought that if my leg was pulled on hard enough, it would pop out just like my Barbie. Scary for a little kid, but how ridiculous to think!
Danielle
When I was little, my dad would tell me that if I didn't clean out my ears, potatoes would grow in them. To this day, I clean my ears religiously.
Carrie
When I was a kid I thought if I bit my finger off and swallowed it it would pop back into place
Mike
In Kindergarten every1 thot that they could turn into the opposite sex if they kissed their elbow. One boy actually managed to do this and the next day he came to school with makeup and a ribbon in his hair!!! Good times, gooood times.
Save the Whales
My sister used to believe if you stuck a Q-Tip in one of her ears her brain would pop out the other ear.
Mr.McMelon
When I was a little girl, about 5 I guess, my parents told me that some day I'd grow adult teeth, permanent ones. I thought these teeth would grow in beside my baby teeth, and I'd have two sets in my mouth at the same time.
Jen
My grandad told me that ears were made of bacon rashers. I believed him, and wondered why his 'bacon rashers' had grown to such a huge size.
Lilly
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I used to belive I was the only person with a buttcrack because I ripped my butt open as a baby
FC
When I was little, I thought that if I slept with socks on, my toes would grow together.
Laura
I used to think a diaphragm was a disposable bone.
I knew you could breathe through it and one day I noticed that a TV character found one in her bag.
Emma, Brighton
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When I was ten days old, I had menengitis. SO, while running some tests I had a spinal tap and liquid was removed form the base of my spine right? So, I have a little scar there. When I was about 4 I discovered this scar, and I had no idea about the spinal tap. So one day I went into my mom's room, convinced that I had been born with a tail, and I was angry that they'd cut it off. I ran in and said "MOM! WHY DID YOU GET MY TAIL REMOVED?" Confused, she inquired why I thought I had a tail. Sheesh
I thought I had a tail!
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One day, I somehow got ahold of a price list from a medical lab. One item that I didn't recognize was "pap smear", so I made up my own definition. I decided that the doctor would use his hand to slap a pimple or blister on your body (making the "pap" sound), then smear the drainage on your skin.
I used to tease my little sister by slapping her, then "smearing" my hand along her skin, telling her that I was giving her "pap smears". One day, she got fed up with this, and ran to my mom, yelling, "Mom! Joey's giving me pap smears!". Needless to say, she was horrified.
Joe Martinez
I was born with my index and middle toes webbed together like my father's toes. People were always (and still are) fascinated by them and asked how they came to be. My dad always told me that when I was a toddler I'd eaten too much candy and they stuck together. That's what I always believed from then on and I could never understand why people would giggle when I'd repeat this.
None
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when i lost my first baby tooth, i was so excited. while i was laughing and celebrating my dad exclaimed "now we just have to wait for your baby fingers to fall off and you'll be grown up!" i believed that until i was about 7. then i asked my mom one day "why havent i lost any of my baby fingers like dad said?" then she told me the truth lol.
cara
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When I was sitting on the bed I was practicing my speech with my father and my older brother. I was only about 6 year olds. I forgot how this came up but someone said the word Anus...I have no idea why but I said, "Can you eat an Anus?" My brother and dad were laughing histerically. My dad hugged me and all he could say was,"I love you..." I'm 13 now and I know what an anus is. >.< I'll always remember that for my father died a few years ago. This just brings back the best of memorys.
Maggie
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When I was little, my brother used to pretend to steal my nose, and then he would pretend to flush it down the toilet, I believed he had acctualy taken it and I cried for days thinking I would never smell anything again.
Starkeesha
my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge.
when i was 6 my mom said some girls were sweat and some were sour so from then on I thought had candy in them so one day at school I kept folowing a girl and at the end of the day I bit her and i said really loud this taste like blood
Matt Brinkman
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