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I used to think the human brain was the shape of a typical dog bone. I realized how far off I was when my fifth grade teacher brought in a real brain. I was mad at her for a long time for showing us the ugly truth, but at least I could see where we get our convoluted logic from.

Whiz Kid

My parents told me I had a tail when I was born. They insisted for years. When I was in high school I learned about a medical condition where a baby is born with part of their spine sticking out, so that is what I thought I had. I asked my parents and they just laughed. Jerks! I still am not sure if I was born with a damn tail or not.

Heather

When I was little I used to hear the expression "Did you use your marbles?" n order to secure that I would never lose my marbles I decide that plugging my ears with ear plugs would eliminate the possibility. I walked around with ear plugs as often as I could until I was seven and my parents told me the truth. They were laughing at first but then I guess decided it was sad.

Frank Frankerson

I didn't know whether nail files were supposed to make your nails sharper or duller.

Anon

When i was in second grade, a lot of kids in my class liked to say this one stupid joke.

One kid would ask another kid where someone or something was, and they would respond, "Up your butt and around the corner."

I actually believed that there was a corner up your butt. I thought that there was a bunch of corners, turns, stairs, doors, hallways... like a maze.

Lecia

When I was very young, the nuns at school told us that it was a sin to touch yourself except when you were bathing. I had no idea what they meant, and for a time I tried to keep my hands away from the rest of me.

Goldie

When I was feeling confident about counting up to 20 I began to count how many fingers people had - I always thought that the number of fingers depended on how old these people were but when I counted them I always ended up with 5. I was dissappointed UNTIL I made my mind up to give it another try; I tried to count my father's fingers and I had 6! I was so happy and loved my father for having 6 fingers!

This is embarrassing.

Eva

When I was very small I used to think that I had two sets of lungs: one set for breathing with your mouth, one set for your nose. I was convinced that the ridges on the roof of your mouth was the ribcage that protected your mini nose lungs from your food.

Jessica

I had an uncle who has lost his arm in a farm accident. Also, I noticed when things were broken, they were thrown away.Sooo, when i fell and broke my arm (age 8), I was sure they were going to cut it off and throw it away. I was scared to death until I left the hospital with my arm in a cast and still attached to the rest of me!

Mel

As a kid, I use to believe that candles were made out of ear wax.

CC

when I was about 8-9 yrs old and was always at war with boys my age, I used to believe that men don't know what the female body is like and I would get angry with bra ads to let out such a secret!

boo boo

I used to think that a "stage kiss" meant that the two peoples' lips didn't actually touch but it just looked like they did.

Anon

I used to think that your knee cap was called your knee ball.

Erika

When I was a little kid and fell down and skin my knee, I used to think I was skinning my kidney.

G. Dedrick

When I was a child. I used to believe that there were little elves (like the Keebler elves) that operated my body. And when I was sick, it was because the elves were fighting.

Anon

I thought that you were allocated a certain number of heartbeats in your lifetime and that the quicker your heartbeat, the shorter your lifespan would be... Hence I avoided exercise until about the age of 14. I still find keeping fit very difficult.

Jimbo

I thought my stomach had different "compartments" for different foods. I would explain to my parents that my "spaghetti compartment" was full... but a few minutes later, when dessert came around, I'd have room because my "dessert compartment" was empty.

Dial Zero

That if we poked out our tongue, someone would grab the tongue and stretch it right out (in our minds about a meter) then let it go and it would go 'PING' through the back of the head.

Anon

my mother would say to me when i was little, and either crying up a storm or making a face at my little brother, 'your face is going to stay like that; you're going to get hydra-false-face.' i always that that was a real disease, not something my inventive mother made up; and to support her, when i once got wise enough to question her, my older sister showed me a pamphlet with the comedy-tragedy masks on the front and said 'this is what you'll look like'

betti

I believed in a South African version of the toothfairy. The toothmouse. The mouse would come and get the tooth out of my shoe when I wasn't looking. Leave some money to pay. He used the tteth to build a tooth-castle. Anyway, one day I was looking for something in my mom's cupboard and found the stash of teeth. I fell down on the bed and started to cry. I cried until she came back from work. I was heart broken.

Toinette'