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when i was young my sister used to do that thing with her thumb and tell me that she was taking my nose then she would run over to the toilet so id run over there and look in the toilet and every time there was something that looked like my nose so shed flush the toilet and id cry for three days and when id go out with someone id always ask some random person if my nose was in there toilet as i got older i found out that she never took my nose and the thing in the toilet was half of a circus peanut

Tif'

A friend of the family was very very short (possibly a dwarf) and when i was about 5 I asked her why.
She said it was because her legs got cut in half and i believed her.
Right up until i was about 8 or 9 i pondered how she managed to get her legs in a pair of shoes as i imagined that she had little stumps like tree trunks.

Becci

i used to think that i had two noses and i remember not understanding why i was congested when ever i got sick because doesn't it make sense that if you cant breathe out of one nose then you should be able to breathe out of the other?

Nat

i used to think that if i frowned my face would stick like that and would always be like that. so i only frowned like once when i was little

Anon

My children are 4 and they have a bit of a speach problem , well me and my hubby have tryed to teach them there body parts and they have about got it all. But one day they (twins) came up to me and asked me what were my boobs called and why they didnt have them!! Well i told them mommys have them not boys that the are boys they have nipples!! Now they tell everyone they have pickels and mommy has cucumbers!!!

mommy of twins

I used to belive...
You know the game where your parents grab your nose and put their thumb in betweewn their pointer and middle finger and say" I got Your nose!" well i thought my mom really took my nose and i cried

Anon

i used to think that black people have black skellitons

tim

i used to believe girls had penises.

Anon

I used to believe that if you leaned on your elbow and rested your head in your hand that you veins would pop out of your wrist! I think I saw it in a horror movie and believed it. I still have trouble doing it to this day.

Jen, Boston

I used to believe back shoulder blades were indeed back breasts.So I used to wonder how you could wear a bra for both your front and back.

Brittany

I used to be very thin when I was a little kid, I was so thin you could see my ribs. I remember once, I first noticed my ribs when I was getting out of the bath tub, I looked in the mirror, and saw what I thought were little wings, that were inside of me, pressing against my skin, ready to POP out, that thought scared me so bad. (Scene changes to Vacation Bible School) Shortly after the incident in the bathroom, I would be careful not to have pressure on my stomach, for fear those "wings" would pop out. In Bible School that day, the girls were supposed to sing some song, and were supposed to play as Angels. The boys got to play with animal puppet things, I was afraid, that if I was to sing with the other "Angels" it would cause my "wings" to pop out, and besides that, I wanted to play with the puppets, so when the song came on, I refused to sing, I sat there, with my arms crossed, when the teacher noticed, and came up to me, to ask me to sing, I felt a strange pressure in my stomach (At the time, I thought it was from hearing the music. I later realized that was because I didn't get anything to eat that morning) I was thinking "Oh no, this is it!" and I almost cried, then the teacher said she was going to replay the song until I sang with the rest of the girls, that's when I exploded (not literally) I was so mad, I started screaming and when they told me to calm down, so I can sing with the rest of the "Angels" I screamed "I don't want to be an Angel!" I ran to the puppets and grabbed them, and tried to crawl under a desk and play with them, I saw the teacher leave, and I sat there thinking "Thank the Lord, that B**** is gone." I was sure I was going to be left alone, until the teacher came back in, and started settling down the other kids, not 30 minutes after, my mom comes in the room, and makes me get out from under the table, the teacher never said anything to me, just talked to my mom, who came to get me early, because of what I did. Then mom grabbed my arm and started pulling me from the class room, I turned towards the teacher and said "I want to finger-paint here tomorrow!" and when mom and I were outside, she looked at me and said "You are going to Hell, I know it...." By the way, I never got to finger-paint the next day, I haven't been to Bible school since. All because of my stupid wings, I mean ribs....Oh well, I can't see them anymore! ; )

Bethany

when i was young i used to think that balls(testes) used to store urine. but now i know its for a higher purpose. to make babies unless...

young.

I didn't know I had a third hole until I was 17...I thought that the vaginal hole and the urethra were the same thing...

Anon

I used to think that if I ate too much junk food in one day, I'd get so fat that my belly would fill the whole sofa!

Anon

i used to believe that little men lived inside you and would fix you when you got ill or cut yourself and that you ate when the little people got hungry, so i would eat all my food so that the little people would be happy and make me strong and stuff....

luke

When I was child I used to believe If I didn't brush
my teeth before going to bed, they would fall, because my father said me. Sometimes I brushed two times to be sure that they didn't fall.

Anon

i used to think that when you crossed your legs you would switch bodies with sum1 else...i dunno how i came to this conclusion...........

m.n.

my mom told me that when i sniffed the boogers back up my nose i was sniffing them into my brain. this was her way to get me to lbow my nose. i still sniff a lot anyways.

Anon

you know sometimes you have another tooth behind the one that hasnt fallen out yet, i used to believe that these little green frog thingamajigs would be putting another tooth behind the one that just fell out...lol i found that there were no such things when another tooth fell out and there was nothing behind it...].[

freakadora

My dad used to say that if I sat with my back to the fire for too long I would get "floating kidneys".

Mary Appleyard, Scotland