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Up until I was about 9, I thought that if you were to chop off your arm or leg, you wouldnt see blood muscles etc...you would see wires and electric sparks poking out. I wouldn't hesitate to tell my younger relatives this, and my three year old cousin thinks it now!

Kelsopop

When i was little, i asked my older sister why we swish our arms when we walk, she told me it was so our armpits can breathe. I believed her up until i was in junior high.

nessa

I use to think that whatever your favorite color was, that was the color of your blood. My favorite color back then was green, but whenever I told someone they asked why mine was red then and I never had an explanation.

shelly

I used to believe that when evermy heart pounded too hard that you could see it push against your chest. This also led me to believe that it was trying to escape 'cause it worked too hard.

Anon

Until I was about 8 I believed that your back teeth keep growing in until you have a full circle of teeth.

Anon

I used to believe that my feelings were in my shoulders.

Jesyka

I used to believe that everyone has a vagina, and that vaginas are called penises. I didn't know the word 'vagina'.

Trisha Gaurav

I have a heart shaped birthmark on my elbow. When I was little my family would tell me that it was poop. I would sit in the bathroom scrubbing my birthmark trying to get it off. Sometimes, i would scrub so hard it would bleed.

-Charissa-

i used to believe that an 'in-growing' toenail would actually grow backwards into the toe and disappear into nothing.

matt

As a young boy I was told that if you make a fist with your hand, your heart will also assume the shape of a fist.

And to boot, the thought of it really disturbed me, so I tried to avoid making fists or clenching my fingers whenever possible.

Jason

My mother would get us girls to cross our legs together when we were sitting down (she didn't like us having our legs splayed apart - cuz our undies showed!) by telling us "rats will be attracted to you and crawl up" if you didn't keep your legs closed!

Misty

I used to believe there was nothing inside of us--were balloon-like, and that if poked with a needle we would pop and disappear.

Andrew

I used to belive that our body was functioned by little robots inside us, and we were like factories. That was, until I went to secondary school.

James

when i was younger i thought that there was a tiger in my stomache..and when my stomache growled i thought that if i didnt feed the tiger..he would come out and eat me

Anon

i used to believe that when i was a kid when i slept with the covers off my legs or arms (especially my feet) that if i fell asleep with them out that little gnomes with butcher knives would come and cut them off. then i thought that they would take my parts to other gnomes and sell them to eat parts of me. Yea i was a weird kid i know i admit it.

matt

When I was four, I had lost my first tooth, and I cried for an hour or so, thinking I would never grow it back.

Joe

When I was little, my dad would tell me that if I didn't clean out my ears, potatoes would grow in them. To this day, I clean my ears religiously.

Carrie

I used to think that wisdom teeth came when you had too much knowledge to fit in your brain so it was put in extra teeth...until I got some of my own hehe

Anon

I used to believe that all of the food a person ate went into their legs. As their legs filled up, they had to get them cut off and replaced with newer, longer legs: that's how people get taller!

If people got lazy and didn't change them, then the legs just got fat.

Some people couldn't afford 2 whole new legs, so they would get one new one and take off the other, full leg (amputees).

ThunderThighs

When I was little I used to believe that when you lost a tooth, if you didn't stick your tongue in the gap of where it was a gold tooth would grow in there. My Grandfather had told me that and no matter how hard I tried, I could never keep my tongue out of the gap. Needless to say I never grew in a gold tooth!!

Anon