general

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

I was told as a child that I could have as many sets of milk teeth as I needed and only when I reached 18 would I have adult teeth which would last forever

dave w

My aunt had a 3/4 gold crown on one of her front teeth, I thought it was the coolest thing ever, and i asked my dad how i could get a gold tooth.
he said when i lost a tooth, if i didn't put my tongue in the socket it would grow in gold. It is impossible to keep a tongue out of a socket, but I once managed to do so nearly all day.
alas, I always blew it, and only years later did I find out about crowns.

rebecca

I used to think that my tonsils were in my wrist because that's where they gave me the injection before starting my tonsilectomy

Franco Lutky

When my mom was little she believed she could swallow her tongue. She would stay up all night sticking her tongue out. She thought she would swallow it in her sleep and die!

Anon

When I was little, I thought that if I slept with socks on, my toes would grow together.

Laura

My birth certificate has my feet print on either side of my mother's right thumb print. Before I could read, my mother told me that I had been born with an extra toe and that the "thumb" print was really that of my extra toe which had been removed shortly after birth.

Boo

One day i HAD to go to the dentist. My dentist said to me "if i turn ur nose upside down when it rains youll drown!" So until 1rst grade when ever that dentist put a tool near my face i thought she was going to use it to turn my nose upside down!

Chelsea #11

I was a bit of a cheeky monkey apparently (don't believe it for a minute) and I was often told I had more front than Selfridge's. (Has anyone else heard this, or was my Irish mother just strange?!) I wondered for ages where a person's Selfridge's were on their body, and whether it was normal for mine to be smaller than the front half of my body.

Golden Girl

I used to believe that if u went out in the sun for too long your brain would melt and come out of your nose as snot.

girish

i used to believe that testacles were tentacles (what is it with little kids and hearing things wrong. they should be given dictionaries - seriously)

i thought that guys must have a lot of trouble fitting their tentacles into their undies.

it would definitely have explained the bulge that most guys seem to have.

ew.

testy tot:)

I used to wonder why people didn't have outlines like they did in cartoons.

Anna

when I was young I was always the tallest person in my class and i was upset by it, so i thought that if i slep with my legs bent that i would not grow anymore, I did that for a while, then later found out that it would mot stop me from growing

Anon

I used to believe everyone was born with a set number of kisses (all stored in their stomachs) to dispense to loved ones throughout their lives. I had exactly 105.

Wendelin

I discovered that me knees creak a bit sometimes. I told my dad about it and he told me about how when I was born I had no knees and so they had to give me steel knees. I believed it for 6 years. I was very angry when I discovered this was false.

The Klepto

My best friend across the road thought my dad was a vampire because he had his four front teeth missing, she would run screaming from our house because he never put his fake ones in unless he had to, he would hiss at her very, very often.

Child of the Damned

When I was younger my mum told me that cavities in your teeth are caused by small worms burrowing and living in the tooth! I believed this till I was about 12!

Sam

I used to think if you hung upsidedown too long your head would fall off because of all the blood.I was afaid to hang upsidedown 'til i was 10

Emma

My parents told me when I was little that the little bumps you get on your tongue that sorta hurt were called "lie bumps" so if I got one, it meant that I told a lie. I believed this up until I was in high school....kinda not really thinking about what I was actually believing. I still call them lie bumps when I get them.

rachel

I used to believe that your stomach was just one big tub of liquid where your heart and all your organs float, and when you eat something it falls into the pool where all your organs are too.

Anon