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I used to think that my right hand wasn't my right hand anymore if I turned around.

Mike

I THOUGHT THAT OUR SOUL WAS A BIG SHINY CRYSTAL IN OUR CHEST, BUT I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW OUR HEART,OUR STOMACH AND OUR SOUL COULD FIT IN SUCH A SMALL PLACE. I THOUGHT THAT IF THE PERSON WAS BAD THE CRYSTAL WAS SMALLER. I BELIEVED IT WAS A PINK CRYSTAL.

CHERRYbomb

I used to believe that the body would replace any severed limb eventually. This was (most likely) because when I visited the 1976 Paralympics in Toronto with my parents, I noticed that the arms and legs of a few of the athletes (the Thalidomide victims, I realized much later) were quite obviously in a state of growing back. I also remember thinking that the athletes were really cool, keeping up their sport while they were still recovering from such a horrible accident.

Bo

I used to wonder why the heart and lungs didn't rattle around all over the place inside you. I had seen the picture of the body showing the skeleton and the heart and lungs on a poster at school as a five year old and thought the rest of your insides were just empty space. Didn't work that one out for years!

Fi Dann

when i was little i used to think there were little men inside every person's body, and they would poke u with pitchforks to make you itch, and when u swallowed something they would pull it down, and when u...ahem...pooped, the little men would be jumping on it to make it leave u faster...i was a weird little child

Nicole

Once, I stuck a crayon up my nose and it got stuck. Until I was about 11, I still believed it was there because that's what my parents had told me...

Anon

I used to believe that my brain was in my stomach! And that when my stomach grumbled it was the sound of my brain working.

Roisin

my pateint refused to allow me to extract his badly affected upper tooth, he actually believed his upper teeth were screws that fixed his upper jaw to his skull

dentist

Growing up, I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth, my teeth would grow in like a Walrus's. Needless to say, my unexplained childhood paranoia led to exceptionally good oral hygiene and have only had 1 cavity to date...and I'm now 27! Parents: Don't get any crazy ideas about instilling this fear into your children to get them to brush. At the time I was horrified and scared senseless! Very traumatizing.

Randy

When I was in kindergarted, there was an older girl at my school who had no arms due to a birth defect. For some reason, I thought that she used to have arms, but that she had lost them. I thought that if I was wasn't careful, I could lose my arms too. I was terrified, and I held my arms as close to my body as I could at all times. Finally my mother noticed I was acting strange, and she set me straight.

Sarah

I used to believe that I could take any zipper(my grandmother kept some at her house), put it around my arm(or other body part), and zip it off. All I got from this was a lot of bruises on my arms, my legs, and parts I'd rather not mention.

Kirk

I thought my brain would explode if it was in the sun too long

Heather

As a child into teenager years, I thought that those unsightly bulging veins on legs were called "very close veins" aka vericose.

Leslie

I used to believe that my legs weren't responsible for holding up my body, that my body was just floating in the air and my legs were simply below. As you might imagine, I had a few failed attempts at trying to pull my legs off the ground with my arms, to hover.

Zulban

I used to bite my nails a lot when I was young. Well, I still do.
:P
But my aunt once scared the shit out of me by telling me that one day a huge tree will grow out of my mouth which would have nails dangling to it instead of fruits.
:|
I used to cry day and night.
But I still couldn't stop biting my nails.
It's addictive, you know.

Diksha

as a child i would always see my mother put on chapstick.one day i asked why she did that. she said it was to fix her lips when they were chapped, hence the name. so i then asumed that chapstick was someone else's lips liquified and put into those little tubes. she never quite understood why i refused to use it after that day.

Anon

I used to believe that when you lost your teeth, all of them fell out at the same time.

Anon

Whenever I got pins and needles in my legs, I thought that woodlice where crawling around inside them!

squee

weh i was little at night when i was trying to fall asleep i could hear my heartbeat and i thought it was a tiny train going through my head from one ear to the other

Anon

I used to think that when my arm would fall asleep that it was raining inside my arm

Anon