general

i once told my little sister that if you attach a cotton bud to a drill machine...you could clean your ears better...she actually beleived it

rajesh

When I first heard that it was possible to break a limb, I thought you could break an arm or a leg right off. I thought you'd grow a new one; it would start growing back really small, and get bigger and bigger until it was normal sized.

I also remember the first time my Dad said 'your eyes were bigger than your stomach', and I thought my eyes did get, momentarily, really huge...

Pam

when i was little i went to the dentist for a tooth out. when i got out i had all this red stuff in my mouth that tasted funny and my mum told me it was strawberry ribena. i never drank it again and it wasn't until a few years ago mum told me it was actully blood. i am now 23.

Sad Delinquent

When I was a kid, my grandfather always used to ask me where I got my nasty brown eyes from... So I thought that having brown eyes was something ugly and bad... I think I must have been in my teens when I realized that my grandfather had brown eyes himself, and was actually proud of the fact that I had brown eyes...

Brita

I once believed that if you made a funny face a trick wind will blow and your face stayed that way.

Adam

My mom told me that if you didn't eat enough carrots, your eyesite would suffer.

Julie Bulie

I used to believe your shin was the same body part as your chin. I could not figure out how people got kiked in the chin so often.

Anon

My great aunt was born with a leg deformity and had to have her foot amputated as a child. When I was about 4 years old, we were all at a big family cookout and everyone was swimming in my aunt's pool. I had no idea that she didn't have a foot and wore a fake one. As I was about to get into the pool, I saw her in the water at the edge of the pool...and I saw no foot! Which made me think that something happened to it in the water (like it got eaten ) and I FREEEEAKED out and started screaming and crying. She had to come over and explain everything to me, because I wouldn't get in the pool!

J.A.F.

When I was a kid my dad told me that if I lost a tooth I should put it in a glass of water, because it would transform into a coin when it was night. I was depressed when I found out that this wasn't true...

Fool from Norway

When I was a young child, my mother told me Jesus Christ lived inside my heart. So I always took great care with my body. When I fell down, or was pushed, or hit, I always worried if Jesus who lived in my heart was ok too. I felt I had to look after Him carefully, since He lived in my heart,and I tried not to do any risky stunts, like jumping off swings, because I might hurt Jesus in the process.

Cathy F.

I used to belive that people relly were bugs, or dolls. And that someone one day could step on me, or rip off my arm.

mona

I used to believe that if you leaned on your elbow and rested your head in your hand that you veins would pop out of your wrist! I think I saw it in a horror movie and believed it. I still have trouble doing it to this day.

Jen, Boston

When my grandparents would stay overnight at our home, I'd watch them both take out their teeth and put them in a glass for the evening. I assumed that EVERYONE'S teeth eventually came out "whole" as a part of growing up!

So . . . every day, I'd grab my gums, wiggle a bit, and think to myself, "No, not quite yet . . .!"

peg k

When i was little there was a kid in my older rother's secondary school who was into body bulding. Also, the soles of his shoes were more worn on the outer edge than the inner edge! i thought it was because his arms were too heavy!

John

when i was a kid, my sister and i both believed that our calves stored milk, much like a camel stores water in its hump. after all, they were called "calves."

Laura B.

My babysitters once told me that if I used Avon's Silicone Glove hand lotion, it would make my chest grow bigger. I used to cry and beg them not to make me put it on my dry chapped hands.

Katie S.

At school I was walking with past someone with a headphone in one ear, one of my friends decided to go up and shout in this guy's ear. My friend must have done something to his hearing as the guy shoutd out "ow! My tampon" The whole school practically stopped and stared at him. Meanwhile I was rolling around on the floor with laughter as were my friends. The guy was convinced that tampon was another name for eardrum.

Still Laughing

when the "toothfairy" came to my elmentary school she told the class that you needed to brush your teeth to remove germs. some how i got the notion that germs were gross little bugs & worms that ate holes into your teeth making cavities...i brushed A LOT!

jaime w.

I used to believe that if I scratched one side of my body I had to
scratch the other to be "even".

Greg