general

my mother would say to me when i was little, and either crying up a storm or making a face at my little brother, 'your face is going to stay like that; you're going to get hydra-false-face.' i always that that was a real disease, not something my inventive mother made up; and to support her, when i once got wise enough to question her, my older sister showed me a pamphlet with the comedy-tragedy masks on the front and said 'this is what you'll look like'

betti

When my mother told me that she had broken her leg in a car accident when she was young, I thought that her leg was broken off completely and that it grew back over time.

Amélie

I used to beleive that blankets makes us warm by giving heat.When my brother, who is a doctor told me our body's heat makes us worm, I didn't beleive him until 10.

pınar

My brother once said to my mom, "I know the difference between boys and girls...boys heads are round and girls heads are funny shaped." He thought that because my moms hair was puffy and made her head look like a different shape if you were sitting in the backseat behind her and didnt know better.

cameron

I used to believe that the wax in your ears was bunny poo, and there were bunnys living in your ears.

Anon

When i was little I use to belive that when people lost there leg, (like a handicap) that it just fell off well they were walking down the street!

*rach*

when i was 6-7,my mom told me that if we tense our muscle where it is to be injected, the needle breaks and enters into bloodstream and reaches our heart and can cause death. now i m in nursing course, only to find out the truth that tensed muscle can hardly let the needle to go in the muscle.

shampoo

I used to believe the lighter colored half-circles at the base of each fingernail was the next nail, underneath the first, waiting to grow out and force the top nail off.

Mike

i'm a twin and when i was born (3weeks premature) my ears hadn't properly formed. i have proper ears but the skin at the top doesn't fold over like everyone elses and it looks slightly like bite marks! i look like a leprechaun. ( im 5ft1 and hav ginger hair i also play violin!) but wen i was younger my mum told me that my twin sister had bitten off that part of my ear when we were in the womb i believed that until i was 11 and im now 16!!!

the little leprechaun

My cousin told me that the reason he wore a retainer in his mouth was because he had a hole in the roof of his mouth and his brain would fall out if he didn't wear it. I so believed him!

Anon

My father told me that when you lost a tooth if you didn't put your tongue in the hole, you would grow a gold tooth, of course it's almost impossible not too. I believed this until about fifth grade. Thanks Dad. Ha Ha

Monica

For some reason I used to think you could get a hangnail anywhere on your body and can remember asking my mom if she would look and see if I had a hangnail on my back.

toon

So back in the day when i was a whee lil' me, i always believed that i was born with earrings becuz i had earrings way back when i can remember. wow...it didn't take me until i was 13 and was getting more holes in my ears was i finally told the truth...i wasn't born with earrings.

Joi

When i was little my mom told me that she could "plug" her ears and wouldn't be able to hear what i said. being little i believed her and would tell her to plug her ears so i could tell my dad all sorts of secrets (like what her birthday present was) in front of her. the really sad part is i believed this until i was about 14 or so. very gullible little child (and adult)!

Anon

When I was younger, my cousin told me about her friend who tried to do the splits and got split up her middle. Well naturally, I had visions of her friend literally tearing down her middle and all her insides falling out. Turns out, thats not quite what happened...

Anon

when i was a baby,when my brother stuck his thumb between his fingers and said
"i got your nose" i used to think he really had it and i would say"mom gage wont give me my nose back!"

jared salzano age 10

my grandfather had a gold molar tooth and he told me that when i pulled a baby tooth, if i was very careful not to put my tongue inside the hole i would grow a gold one just like his. i never could make it.

kelly b.