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When I was little, I used to believe that muscles and snot were made of the same substance. This was because of a book I read where it said that earwax was a thick, gooey substance like mucus--only I misread "mucus" as "muscle," creating a very strange mental image for me...

Freezair

When i was younger i believed that if you broke both your legs the muscles wouldnt be able to hold you up any more and you would be stuck in a wheel chair....for life! I was always so scared i would break both of them.

Ty Brown

"Chassis" is slang for a woman's body, especially her genitalia.

Siddharth Mehrotra

Having been to a school with a very religious headmaster who had once used some kind of Christian metaphor when explaining the digestive system, I believed that inside us was a furnace, and all the food we ate was consumed by fire.

Jimbo

I used to believe your shin was the same body part as your chin. I could not figure out how people got kiked in the chin so often.

Anon

I wasn't allowed to cut my nails on a sunday , don't ask me why.

martin

I used to think my feet were made of cheese!!: )

chatterbox

I used to believe that peoples ears grew so that when the world blew up we would be able to fly away.

Ears

my dad has fat rolls in the back of his neck. me and my lil bro, years ago asked him where they came from and he told us that one nite while he was at a frat party, someone played a joke on him and put a snake in his beer can and then he drank it and it went to the back of his neck.

taneshia

I was always very confused about the circulatory system. When i was a little kid, i thought the body was blood, bones, and skin. The blood just floated and sloshed around. So when people stood up fast and said the blood rushed to their head, it was just sloshing up again. When you burped, the bubbles from the sloshing blood were rising up.

In later years, we learned about blood vessels and arteries, i thought the body was just full of tubes of blood. So i took a pair of safety scissors and slashed up on of my hands. The rest of the year i thought my teacher was an idoit and that I was the only one that realized that it couldnt all be tubes or else how could my hand have bled?

britishbroccoli

When i was little i believed that a little man with a pick ax lived in my ears and made them ring when he swung his ax at my ear wax.

Marlene

I was driving down a dirt road that had a lot of washboard. The bumpy road was really making my arms jiggle. My daughter asked me why my bones were jumping around in my arms.

mom

When I was little, my Mom used to tell me that girl's feet didn't stink, but instead smelled like flowers. I think I believed this until a few years ago.

Josh

My dad always told my brother and me that we had batteries in our backs. The reason was he wanted us to be careful when playing in or crossing the street. He said if we messed around and got hit by a car, out batteries would fall out and we'd "turn off"

Gabe Rodriguez

I used to think if you got your leg cut off there would only be a layer of skin, a layer of meat, and a layer of bone...like a cartoon.

kja

I used to think that if you want to measure something in feet (unit) you have to take your foot out and count how many you've measured. grrr haha.

Trang N.

I used to believe we each had little flames inside and under our arms (so what if I couldn't see them), and that was why it was so warm there.

R.B.

After questioning my grandfather on why he had a gold tooth, he claimed he never licked the hole in his mouth after he lost a baby tooth and it grew in that way. For the rest of my childhood I tried to abstain from licking so I would have a full mouth of golden teeth. However, I always gave in and hid in the bathroom because i thought that if noone saw it, it might still work.

Anon

Way before I learned left and right, I always worried because I thought your left and right would always be changing depending on what direction you faced. I thought it would be so confusing to remember which was your left and which was your right.

Left and Right

When I was really young and I heard someone "That hurts my feelings" or something like that I used to think they were talking about the fillings in their teeth.

Josh