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I didn't like brushing my teeth when I was around 6. Whenever my mom told me to brush my teeth, I'd start the daily argument of "If you put together ALL the times I brushed my teeth and add up all the time, I'm sure i've brushed my teeth enough for tonight."
After saying that enough I actually DID believe it and couldn't figure out why she kept telling me to brush my teeth.

Now I have clean teeth

when we were little my mother would tell us when we were mad and stuck out our lower lip that she would trip over it then she would walk by and pretend to trip

L

When I was very small. by older brother told me that if I "Kissed my own elbow, I would turn into a boy."

Anon

My father convinced me that there was an actual tooth that was your "sweet tooth". So, I grew up thinking that because he was literally missing a tooth, his "sweet tooth", he didn't like desserts.

Andrea

When I was little cut off shorts were the thing! So when someone said,"cut-off shorts" I thought they meant you actually had to cut off your legs!

Miranda

Whenever misbehaving, my parents would tell me the Gypsies would come and take me away to make soap out of my stomach.
For a while there I believed that soap was made out of bad little boys' stomachs.

Anon

When I was little I thought that everyone had little wings inside their shoulderblades and when they died the wings grew so then they would be angels
and could fly.

Susan

I used to beleive that everyone in my family had a different color blood. My blood was red, my sister's was yellow, my mom's was green, and my dad's was blue.

Rebecca

I was told that if you didn't wash behind your ears good, potatoes would start to grow!

Lisa G

I seriously believed that the old adage about not making a face, or it will stick that way was true. I constantly changed expressions, so this wouldn't happen.

Jeff

I was convinced for a long time that my elbow was my armpit. There WAS logic behind it: I wasn't thinking of the word "pit" as a hole or a hollow, but like the pit in a cherry or a peach. The bone in the elbow was round and hard like a peach pit, so I figured that that had to be the arm pit.

Laura W.

I use to think that everyone in the world could pull their teeth out and then put them back but me, my grandma could, my great grandma could and so could my uncle. I tried and tried to get mine out too, but (thank God) neveer succeeded. I was so relieved when I finally learned about dentures.

Lisa M.

i used to believe that when you pull out your own tooth you can wish on it. you can either throw it up on the roof or flush it on the toilet. if you don't do either, your tooth will haunt you forever. just in case if you you wish for something bigger or higher, pick the roof.

samantha

my kindergarten teacher was born without a full arm (I don't remember if it was the left or right one). She had all of her upper arm and the elbow area, but her arm didn't grow past the elbow. She was able to move her elbow, which was really freaky.

I believed that if I touched the end of her stump my arm would shrivel up like hers. I was so scared of it that I would make sure to never stand or sit on her stump side. On my birthday she tried to give me a big hug and I freaked out. I wouldn't go to sleep that night because I was sure I would wake up with just a stump.

Janine

I had a bruise on my leg when I was about four, and I thought my leg was going to get black, rot, and fall off...just like bananas do

Juli Humes

when i was little i used to think that tall people were always feeling dizzy because they would look down and saw the ground too far away from their heads.

Anon