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My aunt told me my fingernails would quit growing if I didn't stop chewing on them. I was in my late teens/early twenties before I figured out this wasn't true.
I thought that a woman's private parts were called "China" - imagine my confusion when I learned that fancy dishware and a country were also called China.

Elizabeth

I used to believe in Perez mause when my teeth fall, I put them under the pillow to see what happened

AyrtonZ01

When I was little, my grandfather used to amuse us kids by pushing his dentures out and then sucking them back in. Somehow, this just seemed like a normal thing and I couldn't figure why my mom couldn't do it when I asked her to.

Viebs

I don't remember this, but my mother likes to tell people: When I was little, my mom told me that if I didn't brush my teeth, they would fall out. One day I arrived at preschool and started crying. My mother asked what was wrong, and I said "I FORGOT TO BRUSH MY TEETH AND NOW THEY'RE GONNA FALL OUT". She told me it wasn't true, but I believed it for a long time anyway.

Suz

I used to have a ton of Cabbage Patch dolls when I was little. They always had that signature on their butt. One day, when I was about 3 or 4, I was up in my room, looking in a mirror, trying to find the signature on my butt. I didn't find it and I was really disappointed. I found out years later that my mom saw me doing it, and she still won't stop telling people about it.

Megh

When i was little i saw one of my grandma's take our her dentures which i had never seen anyone do before so i was totally scared of her for like a week because i thought she would get to close to me my teeth would fall out to, but mom explained to me that old people have dentures, so the next week i was sittin on my other grandmas lap and she smiled at me and i grabbed on to the front of her teeth and just pulled on, thinking i could just pull them out, but my other grandma didnt have dentures and also didn't appreciate me shoving my hand in her mouth!

Lacey C.

My Grandad used to tell me on the 31st of December every year to look for the man with as many noses as there are days left in the year, 'you have to be quick he only comes out today'. For years I used to wait looking to see a man walk past with 365 noses.

I never did see him!

Emilié

my little cousin thought that when people hurt your feelings, it was an actual body part!i remember when her sister hit their dog, she said" mariah hit aspen right in the feelings"!! it was soo cute though! she was only 4 years old!

jackie

i used to believe that if you sharpened your finger with a sharpener you would get a piece if pencil led on the tip of your finger you could write with(i got this idea from cartoons) one day i actually tried it, and soon found out that it didnt work that way...

Anon

When I was eight, my papa got a pair of dentures. Only, I didn't know they were false teeth. After popping them out at me I excitedly asked him how he did that. He told me it took lots of practice.
When I became a teenager a man from church popped his teeth out at us and I immediately exclaimed, "How did you do that?!?! I have been practicing for years!"

Becka

A Tv commercial when I was a kid featured a western actor talking about his job and jumping off a rooftop onto his horse. When the director called cut the actor said "Oh my hemorroids" (sp?) and went on to sell whatever product the ad was for. So because of that commercial I used to believe that the technical name for everyones back side was "hemorroids" and I called my own ass my "hemorroids" several times between the ages of 4 and 5 before being told not to.

Kristine

thanks to my older cousin, i used to believe that the dentist had to drill little holes in every tooth to put braces on you.

Anon

I believed I had a tail. It was forked, prehestile, and normally invisible, but I could see it as a see-through green.

Anon

I was told by older kids if I bent my wrist back my veins would burst and I would bleed to death.....til I was 19 I believed that.. To this day I still hate bending them back!

Christina

I used to believe that when a guy turned old he would grow boobs so my grandfather had surgery on his upper chest and his breasts were sagging and we all went swimming and he took his shirt off and i screamed " look dady he got his boobies!" and everybody started laughing i had no clue what happedned. i was like 4

me

After my Grandpa got cancer I accidentally slammed my elbow on a counter. It hurt so bad that I was sure I had cancer too. So, when no one was around I would stick my arm in the microwave to treat it.

teyie

When I first heard of the adrenaline gland I thought it they were saying "a gremlin gland" and I thought it was called that because it makes you feel weird like a mischevious little gremlin!

Catte

When I was little, my cousin told me my moles on my skin would eventually turn into actual moles that would claw out of my skin. I was afraid of my own moles for the longest time!

Anon

my mother always told my brother his brain was in his big toe. after he accidently stubbed his toe (badly) when he was 5, he came running in to mum telling her he had brain damage.

Anon

I used to believe that everyone had a different colored brain and (of course) I was the only one who could assign them a color. It usually coressponded to their favorite color though. :)

Shonzy