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my mom broke her toe when i was three.
"where did you break it?"
"in the bedroom"
"don't worry, i'll look under the bed"
after much searching i finally had to admit that i failed in finding her pinky toe.

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Up until the age of 4 or so, I would wave bye to everyone with my hand waving bye to myself because that's how I saw everyone else's hands. So, my family started waving bye to me, showing the back of their hands and waving to themselves. I would stare at the back of my hand and wave correctly to them, because that's what I saw.

Sara

I believed that if you had a frown on your face, it would stay like that forever. That taught me to never frown again!

Blaine.

I used to believe that if you brain was dead, then you couldnt stay alive no matter what. Well that is technically true, but my mother recently told me of certain machines that can keep the rest of your body working while your brain is dead! Isn't technology great?

Anonymous

I used to believe that I'm the prettiest girl in the world, people will always tell me that when I was young....

Goddess

I used to believe that breaking an arm or a leg meant that the limb actually broke off of the body. I was horrified of this happening to me an always had the deepest respect and sympathy for friends who had broken bones.

Andy

When I was little, I had tiny toes and beleived that ducks mistook them for kernels of corn and eat them.

Seguin

i used to beleive you had to wear socks or your shoes would eat your feet.

Anon

When i was around 5 or 6, whenever i heard my bones crack, i used to think that my bones are actaully cracking and breaking inside my body and i would have hysterical fits about this and think that i might die and all my mom would do is laugh. One day that really pissed me off i said to her"You b*tch i'm dying and your laughin!"

kristina

I used to think that my body was just a huge skin-bag that contained my blood, which was the only thing inside of me. I thought this because i bled no matter where i got cut. I didn't know anything about capillaries

fink

When I was about 5 or so, my mom had taken me shopping with her. As we were walking down the sidewalk, and people would be passing us, I suddenly took notice that everyone who was walking -- even my own mom -- moved their arms in perfect sync with their legs. As their left leg stepped forward, their left arm also moved forward, in perfect sync -- and then the same with their right arm and right leg.

I was facinated, then began looking around to see if there was anyone who wasn't doing it. The only exceptions were when people were holding something -- but if their arm was free, it always moved in sync with their corresponding leg.

Finally, I looked up at my mom and asked, "Mommy, is it a law that people have to swing their arms next to their legs when they walk?"

Completely clueless to what I was talking about, she just answered, "Yes."

And so, for years afterwards, I truly thought it was a law!

How funny that when I grew up and learned about science, I discovered that it really WAS a law -- the physical LAW of nature!

SciFiGuy

I thought that the "guts" were an actual organ. I imagined them as a mass of orange and yellow stringy stuff.

JJ

When I was 8 or so, I was convinced that "prosthesis" meant the same thing as "prophecy." Needless to say, I was teriffically confused when the school counselor read us a book about a little boy who had no hands....XD

TMOH

I used to belive that ballet dancers had flat toes, so when they put on their shoes they would fit right.

Jazzy

My aunt Toodie told us a variety of scary tales when we were kids. Among them was that one's anus was held together by something she called a "pucker string".

Aunt Toodie went on to warn us that an especially large, hard stool might break the pucker string, at which point an emergency operation would be necessary to prevent our "guts" from falling out through the de-puckered anus.

As a child the idea thought that my pucker string might break terrified me. It was only until about the fourth grade, and after a few embarrassed furtive question and answer sessions with trusted playmates, that I finally figured out that a "pucker string" was just one of the many products of aunt Toodies' spectacularly inventive imagination.

Dean

when I was younger I was chubby and my sister had told me that my rolls on my side were love handles and everyone could tell who I had a crush on

Anon

When I was a little girl I used to belive that I had 3 tubes in my throat; one for eating, one for breathing and one for drinking...

Hanne - Norway

My history teacher is extreamly laid-back and we never do much work on Fridays. One day the whole class was sitting around talking when my teacher opens his phone to read a text message and then says "Wow! My boy is 23 inches long!" I went the whole day very upset that my teacher would say such a vulgar thing to his students.

I then realized that he was talking about his son who was born about 2 months earlier. I couldn't believe myself.

amanda

when i was little i thought that if you eat many sweeties, one day you can take your teeth out... just like false teeth.
as a matter of fact i used to believe that dentures were not false at all but that once you get old your gums get loose to the point that you can take them out.
i didn't like to brush my teeth and thought it would be easier that way.

anna asisa

I told my little sister that to get her breasts to grow she would have to spray them with water. I caught her trying it and realized she believed me!!

Einwad