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top belief!
When I was born, a friend of the family made me a blanket and gave me a teddy bear. I carried these with me every moment of my life until I went to kindergarten. The bear often required minor stitching from Mom "to keep his beans in," as she said. Well, I thought humans were filled with beans (that is, polystyrene pellets) too, and if you broke your leg, beans would come out too. (Blame my fear of breaking a leg on my ballerina sister.) Consequently, I developed a fear of walking down our spiral staircase, lest I slip through the stairs and fall to break my leg and spill my beans all over the floor.
Ashleigh
top belief!
I have 2 little moles, one on each ankle, and for years I believed that everybody had them because when god finished making you,(sewing you up) that was where he cast off.
claire
When I was little and I would eat or drink something that would make me choke my mom always said that it went down the wrong pipe. I figured that there were 2 pipes from my throat to my stomach. One was for food and the other was for drinks.
luv2laf
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My grandfather used to stick his thumb in his mouth, blow hard, and his biceps would bulge up and 'inflate' and he would say "see I have big muscles whenever I want". So I used to get caught with pins, knives etc, carving away at my thumb till it bled, trying to punch a hole right through to my bicep so I could have big muscles too. My other grandad had a finger missing and I was told that his muscle operation went wrong cause he tried to do it himself, so I stopped doing my own surgery after that...
Gutz
My Mum said that if you licked your lips, Mr North Wind would come and freeze them off... I still don't lick my lips...
Joe
When I was 5 my uncle took out his false teeth. I thought that everyone could take out their teeth. I spent the whole summer trying to find the switch in my mouth that would let me remove my teeth.
Denny
top belief!
When I was young, I used to drive around Canada's country-side with my grandfather. Both my brother and I would complain about the smell of cow manure and my grandfather told us "take a deep breath boys, it's good for your lungs". So everytime I smelled manure, i would take a deep breath to help my lungs get stronger.
Kyle
top belief!
Being a kid and knowing that everything had to be plugged in to work, i.e., TV, radio, etc., I went through a phase where all I did was try to find where I plugged in to the world and got my power. The best I could figure was that I had plugs on my feet that hooked into the ground, but every time I jumped they hid. I never could figure out why my plugs hid though.
Pat
When I was a kid I thought that your tonge went all the way down to your stomach and just spred out in a toung like plate in your torso. And that food just sat there for a awhile.
Danibal
top belief!
My mother used to say, when we did something physically dangerous, "Stop that, or you'll break your neck." Since breaking things (like a toy) usually meant a part was completely separated from the rest, I pictured someone with a broken neck as having his head broken off. (Which puzzled me even more when I overheard the grown-ups talking about someone who was recuperating from a broken neck, since I figured no one could live after having their head broken off.)
I assumed the same principle applied to broken arms and legs; I was much relieved when a boy in school broke his arm and I saw that he hadn't become a one-armed boy.
Lochcarren
When I was little, I used to believe that underneath our skins, we were all just swimming with blood, like a big sack. If you got a cut, you'd bleed because were leaking. I found out about blood vessels in school and was a bit confused at first. Then we got to the capillaries.
Benia
top belief!
for quite few years I believed my Dad had swapped feet with my Grandad. An uncle pursuaded me that this was true when I was about 3 years old, after I'd seen my Grandad wearing my dad's shoes.
Mike
Well you know the squiggly lines and things on the roof of your mouth? Well, I always thought they said something, so I always tried to move my tongue on them, trying to figure what the lines said. I did this for a few years and I even used a mirror sometimes to see, but I did this rarely because I knew that mirrors produce a reverse image. I'm fourteen now and sometimes I still try to see wat they say...or look like, at least.
Jack
top belief!
When I watched a horror movie on HBO as a kid (namely Alien or The Evil), my stomach was very knotted. I figured that it was because my stomach could view the movie as well, so I would stand behind a chair to shield my stomach from the horrible scenes.
Kuildeous
Just like one of the other beliefs I thought the pulse in my ear was caused by British soldiers marching in my ear.
Alucard
When I was in seventh grade I was made fun of constantly because my feet were so ugly. I had been a dancer so my toes were pretty mangled and they were always turning purple. After a while I got sick of all the questions, so I told everyone that when I was born, the umbilical cord got caught aroung my ankles and cut-off the circulation. Unfortunatly, they had to amputate both of my feet. Luckily though, they were able to replace them with baboon feet. It was the first transplant of it's kind. I had people coming up to me for years, asking me if I really had baboon feet!
Sal
i used to believe that one piece of ear wax was actually called a wach.
rachael
My son ran up to me when he was small,
very excited because he said he was getting his "wizards teeth". What he was talking about were his "wisdom teeth".
Jody
This happened on the first warm spring day a couple years back, after a long winter of always having at least socks on his feet. My 2 1/2-year-old son was running around bare foot and suddenly looked down at his feet and said, "Mom, I've got finger nails on my toes!"
Karyn from Wisconsin
My aunt had a 3/4 gold crown on one of her front teeth, I thought it was the coolest thing ever, and i asked my dad how i could get a gold tooth.
he said when i lost a tooth, if i didn't put my tongue in the socket it would grow in gold. It is impossible to keep a tongue out of a socket, but I once managed to do so nearly all day.
alas, I always blew it, and only years later did I find out about crowns.
rebecca
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