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When I was a little girl I firmly believed that the true sign of childhood wealth was wearing braces. I had stubbornly staright teeth AND a poor family. No hope for braces for me. After hearing a child at school murmer about me being traler trash, I vowed that i would make everyone think I was rich. I arrived at school the next day- and everyday for several weeks wearing tin foil on my teeth.

Becka

My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.

Ebod

I used to think that when you popped your knuckles you would get arthritis or hurt your wrist and fingers, but being a physician now I know this to not be true

Surgeon

I'm left-handed, and since my mom and sister were right-handed, I figured that all guys were lefties and all girls were righties. When I figured out that my dad is also a righty, it threw me off, and then I realized that I'm just an oddball.

Josh

I used to think that people in the ARMY had green blood. This is b/c I grew up on a farm sometimes army worms would cover the field and when like all kids you'd squish 'em and they would goo green . I thought this until I was like 6 and saw my uncle who was in the ARMY get cut and it was RED!

Ashley

when i was around 5 years old, I asked my mom what a "booty" was. She told me (i still don't know why she said this) that a booty was a foot. I suspected she was lying to me, and for the longest time, I wasn't sure if booty was a foot or butt.

luv

My fingers got squashed a couple times when i was very little, and so I knew that it made you cry. I would bite my baby dolls' fingers, because that's how I got them to cry, and then I would shush them.

When my parents brought my little brother home, he looked like a baby doll to me ... and yes, he certainly did cry like my dolls did. But he wouldn't shush like I wanted him to, and I got in DEEP TROUBLE for biting him!

Anon

I used to believe that showing my bare arms meant that I was naked, so I never wore short sleeves as a kid.

Anon

I used to believe breasts were pronounced "breests", vagina was pronounced "Vageena", uterus was pronounced "Ooterus", and pubic hair was "public hair".

Molly

My Dad used to look closely into my ear and say he could see through to the other side ... and I believed him!!

Kathy

I played the "I got your nose" game w/ my little brother when he was around 4. He really thought I had his nose, and begged that I give it back, so I put my thumb/"his nose" into my mouth, and pretended to eat and swallow it. He started crying and i had to get a mirror to show him his nose was still there.

MVH aka The King

I used to think that if you cracked your knuckles they would get big and you would have arthritis when you got old because of it.

Kristen

As a child my parents told me that if I kissed the boys my teeth would all fall out. Needless to say, I used to kiss my little boyfriende anyway, and I thought I was getting away with it, too, until my teeth started dropping out!

Kaz

I used to think that all your teeth fell out at once and spent many a moment worrying myself how i would eat when it happened.

Silly Lilly

When I was a child my mother reliably informed me that if I didn't wash behind my ears I would grow mushrooms. I held this belief so long I can't tell you! And now of course....I tell my children the same.

Steven C.

One time when I was 4 years old my parents played on a soft-ball team. I remember that this guy was injured and people helped him into our van and my dad drove him to the hospital.
When dad came back to take us home I was very afraid to get in the back of the van. There was a red blob in the back bigger than my fist. When my mom asked what was scaring me. I said "guts". I didn't know what "guts" looked like but for sure I believed that the blob in the back of the van was the injured player's "guts".
They were just a pair of socks rolled into a ball... but I believed they were "guts".

Tiffany

I used to believe that the size of a person's nostril was in direct ratio to the size of their fingers for ease of picking. I also thought that if you had small nostrils and big fingers, that the nostril actually stretched out to accomodate the finger, so the person would get bigger nostrils.

Becky

when i was a baby,when my brother stuck his thumb between his fingers and said
"i got your nose" i used to think he really had it and i would say"mom gage wont give me my nose back!"

jared salzano age 10

My father told me that when you lost a tooth if you didn't put your tongue in the hole, you would grow a gold tooth, of course it's almost impossible not too. I believed this until about fifth grade. Thanks Dad. Ha Ha

Monica

In secound grade, everyone in my class had to make finger prints on a sheet of paper because we were studying differant kinds of fingerprints.(arch, whirl, loop) When my prints showed up on the paper, they weren't all the same. A boy sitting next to me yelled this out to the class and said I was going to become a criminal. I belived him and started to cry.

Lacey