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For a while, and only for a while mind, I was convinced that there was a small button hidden somewhere under the skin at the very top of my buttocks - just where the 'crack' starts. Finding this button and depressing it would allow the removal of the aforementioned cheeks - though for what purpose, I can only now wonder!

Doc

When I was little I had my little brother and sister thuroughly convinced that their bones were plastic and their skin was fabric! They were so gullible and I was so evil! Hahah!

Tammy

I knew pretty early on that the human body was two-thirds water, and I thought that if you got cut in the right place, water would come out. Never did find the right spot.

Joe L.

My parents used to tell me that if I repeatedly kept pulling faces, Id stick like it when the wind blew....yeah right!

Floss

When I was little, I used to believe that if you cut off your arms or legs or various other appendages that it would look like a sliced grape fruit inside.

Anon

when i was little and i was having a bath my dad would always get the flannel and scrub behind my ears. i would say what are you doing and he told me that if i didn't wash behind my ears potatoes would grow behind there. every night i would wash behind my ears and if later i realised i hadnt washed behind my ears i would rush back to the bathroom to clean behind there.

Anon

I used to believe there was nothing inside of us--were balloon-like, and that if poked with a needle we would pop and disappear.

Andrew

I used to belive that if you forgot to clean your teeth all your teeth would fall out.

Anon

When I was young my cousins told me that when you had an ear ache, it was because there was an earwig inside of your ear. I had always had problems with my ears, and still do, so that scared me. Especially when one of my youngers brothers friends actually HAD had one in their ear as a baby.

I'm still scared of earwigs to this day, although I know they are not in my ears!

Anon

I thought "body" meant "butt". My friend and I would giggle every time they said "body" on the news. Now that I think of it, I'm sure that was quite disturbing to our parents since the word "body" is usually used on the news to speak of a dead body.

Bonnie

i would tell all my nephews and god sons.... that if they didn't leave their private parts alone that they would fall off. and that is how little girls were made. and i would ask them do you want to be like mommy and me? they would start crying.... but they stopped playing with them selves.

Charlie Ann Renee

I have a birthmark right at the middle of the sole of my left foot. For some reason, I used to believe that everyone had one there.

When I was something like 10 years old I happened to see the sole of my friend's foot and was quite flabbergasted because she didn't have one.

Minna Pöntinen

Mom and Dad liked to play this little game with me where she would be on one side of my head, and he would be on the other side. Then they would look through my ears like a keyhole to see each other on the other side. "Oh, yes, I can see you," they'd say. "Ah, there you are!"

Neither of them would let me look through THEIR ears.

I was blown away. But I could never seem to see light on the other side of someone else's ear.

Alberto

My mother would get us girls to cross our legs together when we were sitting down (she didn't like us having our legs splayed apart - cuz our undies showed!) by telling us "rats will be attracted to you and crawl up" if you didn't keep your legs closed!

Misty

I used to believe back shoulder blades were indeed back breasts.So I used to wonder how you could wear a bra for both your front and back.

Brittany

I told my little sister that to get her breasts to grow she would have to spray them with water. I caught her trying it and realized she believed me!!

Einwad

My husband and I have one son together. My son had a terrible habit of talking about his "balls". My husband taught him that they are not "balls", but testicles. Now wasn't that wonderful of him???????? He talks about them all of time and corrects anyone that says balls.

mom of 3 boys

i used to think that if you were underwater or couldn't breathe through your mouth or nose you could breathe through your bottom!

k

As a young boy I was told that if you make a fist with your hand, your heart will also assume the shape of a fist.

And to boot, the thought of it really disturbed me, so I tried to avoid making fists or clenching my fingers whenever possible.

Jason