general

When I was little I had my little brother and sister thuroughly convinced that their bones were plastic and their skin was fabric! They were so gullible and I was so evil! Hahah!

Tammy

when i was 6-7,my mom told me that if we tense our muscle where it is to be injected, the needle breaks and enters into bloodstream and reaches our heart and can cause death. now i m in nursing course, only to find out the truth that tensed muscle can hardly let the needle to go in the muscle.

shampoo

As most parents do, mine told me I was dropped on my head as a baby. Throughout my life I had often told people in conversation that the doctor had dropped me on my head unaware of the fact that my parents had told me that as a joke. I didn't relize this until I was in eighth grade.

Brian

I used to think that a shin was the pelvic bones that stick out. I thought it was strange that people and books always said that someone banged ther shin because I never did and it was a strange place to bang. I found out when I was in High School and everyone had a good laugh!

elizabeth e

When I was a kid, I believed that when you got older your teeth fell out. I knew so many older people had false teeth that the assumption I made was that they must just fall out as you get older, like when you lose your baby teeth when you're a kid. Let me tell you I was VERY relieved to learn that regular brushing, flossing and trips to the dentist would keep my teeth in place.

Syllavus

when i was about 5, i was a real goofy kid and id always make goofy faces. my brothers got so sick and tired of it so they said that if i made a goofy face and held it for over a minute, my face would remain that way forever. i believed this so much that i didnt even think of making a goofy face at anyone for the longest time.

dan

When i was little, i believed that if you slept with socks on, your feet would fall off.

Anon

When I was about 7 my older sister (13) had one of those little tiny flies go in her ear and she couldn't get it out. My Mom took her to the hospital and when they came back they told me that the doctor took a hose and sprayed water in her ear and the fly came out the other ear.

I not only believed this but I told people this ACTUALLY HAPPENED until I was 12 or so. I didn't get that it was a joke until even later.

Jenn

I used to believe that it was possible to make yourself not ticklish! I am EXTREMLY ticklish - any contact on my tummy or soles can feel like almost agony.

But stupidly when I was about 12 I let all my friends pin me down on my back with my arms up and tickle me non stop for 5 mins straight, no breaks
I was practicly in tears and TOTALY hysterical and frantic the whole time!

And I am still just as ticklish

Natalie6282

i seriously used to believe that a person's soul was a big opal-colored oval in their hips. i have no idea how i came to this conclusion, but i still kind of think that. ...and i'm 15 now.

Melissa

when i was little my dad used to tell me to cut my fingernails or tonails well i hated it and i said that it hurts. so to make me cut my nails my dad would telll me i would turn green if i didnt cut them and i would get a disease i bellivedd this until i was 12 im 23 now.

the man

I used to think when I was little that you had three *tubes* in your mouth... one for solid food, one for liquid and one for breathing!

Kaitie

I used to think that because people always referred to losing teeth as the roots coming out, there were tiny trees in my mouth. So one day I lost my tooth and I screamed "NO, MY TREE WILL DIE NOW!!!"

Anon

we used to believe that when we sneezed a tiny bit of our brain fell out! and we got dumber. so we used to try not to sneeze and put our fingers up our nose to prevent sneezing! those were the days!!

Anon

When I was little, I used to nibble on all sorts of things: toys, biscuits, the dinner table. My parents said I had "mouse teeth" and I thought they meant that my teeth were yellow and pointy and ugly. Just about all photos of me have me smiling with just my lips; no teeth showing. I'm now 49......oh dear.

Edith from Melbourne

My parents used to tell me I had "mouse ears". I thought my ears must have been deformed so I used to keep my hair long to cover my ears (until my mid-20's) What they really meant was that my ears were small and that I have extremely good hearing! ! !

Edith from Melbourne

After watching the Magic School Bus Human Body, I began to think that there were little kids floating around inside of me, too!

Crane

My brother and I would frequently travel across a neighbor's cow pasture to get to our friends' house. One time I wasn't paying attention and I stepped in a very fresh cow pie and it soaked through my shoe. When I got home and told my dad, he told me it would make my foot grow bigger. It made sense because people use manure to make their plants grow bigger, right? Well my foot DID grow slightly larger than my other foot and I believed the manure was the reason for the longest time!

ganko

I was told in Sunday school that males had one rib less than females and the reason was that Eve was made from Adam's rib.

Before ultrasound was able to determine sex of a fetus, I suggested to my parents that an x-ray could be taken of the fetus and count the ribs. Naturally they thought that was funny and so I never forgot the humiliation.

Ron Harris

I use to believe that if you got a sliver you didn't remove pronto, that it would make it's way deeper and deeper into the body until it pierced something important....that's if you weren't lucky enough to have that area amputated first!

A. Smith