general

When i was 2 or 3,i believed that one day,when i got older,my toenails would split open and ther would be peanut butter inside.

me

I used to believe that when the school nurse checked us all for head lice, I thought they were saying they wanted to check us for "Head-Lights" After that, I really wanted to stick around and see if they found the freak kid with a couple of built-in fog lamps stowed away or something.

Shane

I was at my friends house the other day and her little brother (5 years old I think) came into her room and she was like "DAD TELL HIM TO GET OUT OF MY ROOM!" and her dad was like "Come on Sean, you can go in there untill you grow boobies."

Gina

I used to beleive that when women were breast feeding their babies, the babies were in fact blowing air into their mother s breasts, I was kind of disgusted how can a woman use her baby to make her breast bigger.

Anon

I thought that big people are necessarily smarter because there brains would be bigger

Quatsch

In honor of my late uncle I'd like to post this belief.

When I was around 5 my uncle slammed his thumb in the car door and it cracked so he had to go to the emergency room to get it removed. He was gone for hours and when I asked him what took so long he said that your fingernails and toenails are connected so the had to pull his toenail out too. I really thought they pulled his toenail out through his finger, and believed that toenails and fingernails were connected until I was 20.

Stacy's niece

Whenever I woke up from a nightmare I thought someone was coming up the stairs to see if I was alright. The steps would be slower and quieter, then fade away. It took me years to realize that the sound was my heart pounding.

Louise

When I was very little, my mom took me to the grocery store. We saw a man with a hump on his back. My mom had recently had my sister so I knew what pregnat was. I, being usualy quiet, blurted out," Look, Mommy, he's going to have a baby!" She was embarrased but she told me that the man understood.

:)

My mom would always tell me and my brother that we need to drink our milk because it made our bones and teeth smile...this somewhat freaked me out because I thought if they could smile they must have minds of their own... maybe that's why i became a vegan...

Anon

Ok when i was like 3-4 my sis told me that when your born you have no butt crack so the docters take a butter knife and chop a line so theres a butt crack!

Savanna R.

When I was little, my brother used to pretend to steal my nose, and then he would pretend to flush it down the toilet, I believed he had acctualy taken it and I cried for days thinking I would never smell anything again.

Starkeesha

My Nan used to tell me Germans would destroy my teeth if I didn't brush them at night. For years I'd go to bed with visions of Nazi's bashing my teeth with their guns. Finally, aged around 8 I realised she was talking about germs.

At the same time I believed I had fleas living in my hair as my dad used to sit me down and break their backs with his nails. The sound of the nails cracking was pretty effective and I used to sit dead still while he spent several minutes saying: "Here's one, snap!' "Hold one! And another one!" Etc.

Finally, I was very confused as to why our neighbours, the Meek family, (three boys around my age who tortured earth worms) would inherit the earth. I used to glance at Robert during school assembly racking my brains trying to work out why they were the chosen ones.

Michele

I formed a belief that the older you were, logically the bigger your feet. I could never figure out why on earth my dad had bigger feet than my grandfather-it made absolutely no sense!-and my mom couldnt even begin to try to explain it to me...

Carrie

I must have been 6 or 7 When I was told that we need oxygen to live. I thought we had boxes of oxygen inside of our bodies. I prayed that I had enough for a long, long life.

Anon

I used to believe that our insides were made completely out of tuna

molly n

When I was younger, I used to believe that Kidneys were really in your knees. I think up until about the fifth grade, i was under that impression. it was baddddd.

Britt

My sister told me that if I could kiss my elbow I would change into a boy. I never disproved her on this.

Aussie

As a child I was convinced that tooth fillings would turn your teeth black. I was 36 years old before I got the courage to ask my dentist if this was true, and she looked at me like I was insane.

one embarrassed patient

I used to believe that people's brains differed in colours. I always wanted purple brains for some reason.

Katrina

I used to think that the roof of your mouth was made of teeth, laid like tile. It sure felt that way, until I asked when those teeth would fall out, and was shown the roof of my mouth in a mirror.

Nelson