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For some reason I used to believe humans were made out of toothpaste

lu

For some reason, for the longest time I believed that my left leg was totally empty, except for the few things needed to survive. So if I ever got stranded, somehow my left leg would save me...I think it all started as a joke that my dad played on me, but I believed it for a very long time.

Cat.

I used to beleive that (like your teeth do) your lips would fall off so new ones could grow.

Queen Ohla Quads

When i was a kid i thought that my head was filled with flies. i thought that if i hit my head really hard it would break open and all the flies would fly out. i figured that all the little brains they had is what made up a persons one big brain.

Lets fly

When I was 4, my Dad told me that if I turned my head fast enough, I could see my ear. They had hours of fun watching me nearly misalign my neck and saying, "Did you see it yet?" To add to the deception, Dad or Mom would turn their head once and say, "Oh, I just saw my ear." It took a few years for me to figure it out.

E S in Ohio

When I was little and when I went to the doctors he used to check my ears (as usual) but he used to say that he could see onions and potatoes growing in them. After we'd leave i'd continuously ask my Mum if she could see anything growing. I actually still see my pediatrician (now 21 y/o) and he still try's to pull the same "funny" joke.

Anon

when I was like, 6, my mom always told me that the little scraps of food that came out of your teeth when you flossed, were sugar bugs. I thought they were actual bugs so I tried to make a collection.

Anon

When I was about 4-8 I belived that the shells with jagged edges inside (I think they are called precua shells) would bite my ear off if I held one up to my ear to hear the ocean.But I still hesataite even though I am 12 now!

jar_rheeses_penut_butter_cup

I used to think souls were actual organs. Kind of shaped like a big bean or kidney and located where the solar plexus would be. I think it was sort of a transparent blue neon color and just floated above your stomach.

Andy

When i was younger i used to believe that when i lost a tooth and touched the new one growing in that it would turn to gold.

phayd2dark

I used to believe that mice lived in our bodies. They controlled where you looked, if you had an itch, it was the mice poking a stick where you had to itch, etc. This lasted for years until I started learning about the body.

Mel

My grandmother has dentures and when I was little I saw her take them out once and thought that everyone could do that, so I tried to take my teeth out.

Anon

My mother once told me that if I screamed my fingernails would grow.
I don't think she knew I had figured out they could be cut yet, because I began screaming to test this theory. Needless to say, they didn't grow.

Nine Inch Nails

i thought that you had like a box or something inside you to hold your soul for the longest time

jill

When I was 6 I used to believe that my "exercises" lived in a door in my leg and before I did any sport I had to open the imaginary door and afterwards I had to put them all back.

Ali

When I was younger - 5 or 6 - and I would feel the back of my neck, I used to think M&Ms were in there (instead of my spinal column).

kel

When i was young, up to the age of about 8 or so, i misheard when people said taste buds and thought that they were actually called taste 'bugs'. I thought that we all had these black beetles crawling around inside our tongues, tasting the food we ate and sending messages to our body saying whether the food was yummy or gross.
I would sometimes squeeze my tongue and thought i could feel them in there.

Once when i was looking at my tongue in the mirror and i saw all these little red dots on top of it (REAL taste buds) i thought i had a disease!
i asked my older sister and she told me it wasn't a disease because she had the same thing. I was like,
"We've both got the tongue disease! we'll have to keep our mouths closed forever so no one else gets it."
I was hysterical until she explained to my poor, uninformed mind all about taste 'buds'.

a little buggy

From preschool to 1st grade I thought that every boy had a "henis."

I know what they're called now

i used to beleive taht when you turned 14 years old you wuld grow an extra toe

kirsty

I was convinced by a neighgbour that i have eleven fingers. I was so sure of it I even saw the six fingers on one hand

Viktor