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I used to think that breasts were long, trunk-like things attached to a woman's chest, and they had to wear bras to keep from tripping over them.

Anon

I used to believe that a penis was called a bobby because my mum told me... I believed this until I was 15.

Patricia

when i was a kid my mom told me that when i cut my finger, the food i eat would come out of the wound. one day i pricked my pinky and was actually afraid that my fried chicken would come out of it whole. i believed that till i was six.

Sheena

When I was little my parents told me that old ladis had no lips because they ate food off the floor and if I ate food off the floor I would lose my lips too...it worked but its silly that I believed that.

Anon

When I was very young, one of my mum's very good friends would come round to see us. Me and my sister liked him coming over as he liked to laugh and joke with us and we found him entertaining.

Sometimes he'd be sat on the sofa and we'd run up to him and grab his right leg nad he'd say to us "Careful now, that's my driving leg".

I was convinced that his leg was somehow special or fragile and we should be careful of it because he need it for this mysterious "driving".

It was only when I finally bought my first car 2 years ago (when I was 23) that I remembered and thought about this again and realised how much he'd been having me and my sister on.

Duped!

when i was young and one of my teeth where lose i was horrified by the idea that i could swallow my tooth while i slept at night, and i was positive that i would unless i hung my head downward over the side of the bed so it would fall on the floor. but between the boogeyman under my bed and swallowing my tooth i slept very uncomfortable night between hiding under my blankets and hanging my head downwards as best i could.

Anon

I used to believe that an Adams apple was a piece of apple that was stuck in someone's throat.

Ron Aaron

I used to think that maybe people had miscounted, and we actually had 11 fingers. I used to lie in bed and carefully count my fingers over and over, to make sure there were actually 10.

Gary

When my sister was 4, my mother told us that my grandfather had to have surgery to have scar tissue removed. She went around to everyone in our neighborhood and told them that our grandfather had to have Kleenex removed from his nose.

Sarah

I thought your teeth started out in your feet when you were born and they took a while to slowly travel up to your mouth before they popped through.

Kelly

I thought your loins were kidneys, and nobody corrected me until I was a teenager

Anon

I used to believe that when you broke an arm or leg, the limb was amputated for repair and returned weeks and weeks later. When I was in kindergarten, a girl broke her arm and I never saw it because it was in a sling hidden under a sweater. Imagine my panic when, a year later in the first grade, I was being taken to the hospital for treatment of a broken leg.

TobyZ

When I went to get my ears pierced I cried because I thought the lady was going to stand across the room and point the piercing gun at me from there. If she missed, it could land anywhere-- my nose, my eye. I was eight.

Anon

I thought braces were made out of precious metals and that's why they were so expensive!

Sp' Iyulgar

My grandmother told me that if I didn't get my cuticles pushed back that they would grow over my nails. Our neighbor at the time lost his thumb nail and she told me that was what had happened to him. I had great cuticles as a kid.

Stephanie

My dad had wart-like skin nipples on his neck/shoulder area. When I was very small, I used to point them out and ask what it was. He told me that there were diamonds inside!
I really asked him frequently, if I could have them, if he would cut them out.
It took me to my teens (16?) to realize that it had been mean deception.
My mum and dad probably laughed a lot when I was greedily staring at the warts in the past.
Doh!

Santi

I used to think that my soul was my throat.. either located there, or that it actually was my throat... i'm not sure. But i thought you could rip it out, like on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I think I tried this on my little brother, but i'm not sure.

Cooter

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

I used to believe that if you wore cowboy boots your toes were actually as pointy as the boots. All scrunched at the very top.

Kissy

Growing up in a kosher household, I somehow got the idea that if you touched blood your hand would shrivel up and fall off, following an incident in year 7 science involving half a kidney and a pair of tweezers I realised it didn't go quite that far.

Anon