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When i was little i believed that a little man with a pick ax lived in my ears and made them ring when he swung his ax at my ear wax.

Marlene

when i was little (about 5) i thought that my finger nails atached to my bones so id walk around with my arms straight thinking that if i bent my arms that my bomes would break i believed that till i went to kindergarden. stupid me!س

long fingernail deeds

When I was little I used to think I was the only person in the whole world with a nose.

Meg

when i was 4 or 5 i REALLY wanted to be a lion. so around my house i would go up to sum1 and roar then go up and down the stairs with my hands in front of me. My maid kept saying that i didnt look like a lion so i borrowed my friends lion costume one day and messed my hair up so it would look like a mane and i go up to my maid and roar and say "do i look like a lion now??" and i stretched out my tongue and she says " ur tongue isnt long enough" so evryday i would stretch out my tongue till i was i finished second grade. I think thats why i have a really long tongue now.

hersheykisses083

When I was little my father would tell my brothers and me that he would cut off out balls in our sleep if we did not behave. I layed awake those night because I thought it was true.

CRC

i USED to think that nails fell out like teeth and i would get an 'adult' set when i got older because adult nails looked really different

h

I used to have a ton of Cabbage Patch dolls when I was little. They always had that signature on their butt. One day, when I was about 3 or 4, I was up in my room, looking in a mirror, trying to find the signature on my butt. I didn't find it and I was really disappointed. I found out years later that my mom saw me doing it, and she still won't stop telling people about it.

Megh

After we learned about the human anatomy in like 3rd grade, I thought that it was your lungs that made your heart pump. So I figured, when you stopped breathing, your lungs stopped pumping your heart, and that's how you died.

Megh

I used to think there were little men in white coats that controled my body. Like they were these little guys running around in my brain and my eyes were these huge windows so they could look out of, and my arms and legs and other functions were controled by levers and buttons. I finally learned the truth in like 2nd grade when we learned about the human body.

Megh

I used to have this strange belief that your heart, while beating, also swung freely on a rope in your chest cavity, like a pendulum in a grandfather clock. I thought that if you were ever stabbed in the chest, the knife would stop the swinging, and you would die...I didn't ever stop to think about the blood-loss.

Sarah P.

when i was about 5, i was a real goofy kid and id always make goofy faces. my brothers got so sick and tired of it so they said that if i made a goofy face and held it for over a minute, my face would remain that way forever. i believed this so much that i didnt even think of making a goofy face at anyone for the longest time.

dan

When I was a child, I believed that there were little tiny people, so small that I couldn't see them, who lived on my body. When I took a bath, they all had to move onto the islands of my body so as not to drown. I would hold out my hand and let them "board" and move them to the rim of the tub for safety.

Susan

When we were younger my sister and I used to think that our shoulder blades were really sprouting wings.

Raven

I used to believe that my brain was in my stomach! And that when my stomach grumbled it was the sound of my brain working.

Roisin

I used to think that the word "bowels" meant the two body parts that I've since learned are variously called "buns" or "buttcheeks". It seemed only natural when I learned that poop comes out of my "bowels". Since "bowels" is a plural noun, the only thing plural I could think of around where my poop comes out is those two lobes, which I then assumed for some time were called "bowels". The confusion finally ended after I had watched the movie "Lassiter" starring Jane Seymour. There's a scene where she's lying on a bed with her bare butt in clear view. My mother overheard me describing it to a friend. I said that Jane Seymour was lying there naked on the bed with her bowels showing. My mother seeemed shocked, and I was afraid she would be all after me for having seen a movie with nudity in it. But when I explained she seemed relieved, perhaps that a bare butt was all I'd been talking about. Maybe she feared I'd seen a movie with "disembowelments" and perhaps other such violence in it.
To this day, my boyfriend and I joking refer to "buttcheeks" as "bowels"

Veronica

I used to believe that the sou; us an actual part of your body, situated in your neck, and that's why people often die when they break their neck.

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