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i used to believe that my stomach was a huge theme park and therefore everything should be eaten in order to get into that theme park! i never put any food in the bin, and if i did i muttered some funny made up language which was the directions of how to get from the bin into my theme park stomach!!!! :)

abi

My brother and I used to sit around pulling on our front teeth trying to get them to come out like Grandpa and Grandma's. When we'd get frustrated we'd go and ask them for another lesson and they'd show us how easy it was. We kept trying but never could get the hang of it.

JB

That if we poked out our tongue, someone would grab the tongue and stretch it right out (in our minds about a meter) then let it go and it would go 'PING' through the back of the head.

Anon

If I pulled a face and the wind changed I would stay that way FOREVER!

Bear

When I was a little girl my Mum always told us she had spare arms and legs under the bed - so that if we ever got broken she could fix us!! I believed that until I was about 10 years old!!! She doesn't change either - my son wholeheartedly believes in fairies and elves and that they live in the wood - and that Haybales wrapped in coloured plastic in the fields are dinosaur eggs!!!! She is a wonderfully imaginative Mum.

Michele

When I was very young, my mother was yelling furiously at my older brother. He was sitting on the couch eating popcorn, ignoring her. She grew increasingly upset, and finally shouted, "You eat my heart out!" I thought the popcorn was my mother's heart.

Ronne

My Grandmother once told me she could unscrew her feet. I believed that for years.

Andy Bettison

My Dad always told me that when you lost a tooth, if you did'nt stick your tongue in the hole, a GOLD tooth would grow in instead of a regular one. Never could keep my tongue out of there though.

AZAZIL

I used to believe that the body would replace any severed limb eventually. This was (most likely) because when I visited the 1976 Paralympics in Toronto with my parents, I noticed that the arms and legs of a few of the athletes (the Thalidomide victims, I realized much later) were quite obviously in a state of growing back. I also remember thinking that the athletes were really cool, keeping up their sport while they were still recovering from such a horrible accident.

Bo

i used to think that nostrils were called estrils

Dave

I used to think that all shoes were hollow, and so ladies who wore highheeled shoes were forced to because of their funny, pointy-heeled feet.

A

i believed that the muscle in my mouth above my top teeth that goes to my top lip was a bit of bread crust that got stuck and grew over.

adrian

when i was young, my brother told me that everybody's little toes would fall off when they grew old. i never could understand why my mum still had hers, but i still believed my brother for a long time.

wylye

when i was little and had a stomache, i used to think a little man was in my stomach poking away with a pitchfork.

Kat

When I was off to my first day off school,I remember my mum saying to me.."Give me a BIG Smile so I can see your dimples"
So from then on I thought dimples were actually the gaps in my TEETH!
I was a LOOONG time until i found out they were on your cheeks.

Bec T

My parents used to tell that if I didn't clean my ears, potatoes would start to grow in them - a terrifying thought.

JIm - Scotland

I used to believe that there were no organs in your body except for your heart and that it was just one big empty cavity.

kyliena

when i was about 6 or 7 my family use to say to all the children that if they poked there tongue out a man would come along and chop it off. And they even used to curl there tongue up to make it look like half of it was missing. Its scared me i didn't want half a tongue:o(. Well safe to say i didn't poke my tongue out for years after that..tee hee

Shell