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When ever I had to put on a Turtle neck shirt as a kid, maybe 6 or 7 years old, I would believe it was chocking me because it was too tight. I really believed that it was strangling me when i was wearing it. So one day my mom , desperate to get me dresed in a hurry, told me that it wasnt a turtle neck, that in fact, it was a lion neck. I thought that lions were brave and strong ( I also really like the movie 'The Lion King' at that time) so I thought it should be alright. I believed that until i stoped wearing them cause the look goofy.

Jordan Salisbury

People at the counter don't wear pants. (The counter covers the pants...)

mantelope

I was told when i was little that when you lie a blue spot appereared on your forehead until you admitted you'd lied.

Anon

One time, I was at my dad's apartment about at age 4. I believed my sister Sara cut all the big celebrity's hair, like Jewel(dad's roommate played her music all the time). My sister,Sara, and I decided to play barbershop. Well, she was the barber. I ended up having a pretty wacked out 'do, like a really short version of Cydni Lauper lol...

Allison

When I was 7 or 8 I was too lazy to change my clothes everyday and so one day my mom told me that if I wore the same clothes for more than one day they would get stuck on me and the only way I could get them off was with surgery. I still cant wear the same outfit for over a day

mary-ann

when i was around 8, like every other little kid, it was quite fun making faces just for laughs. it was until my mom told me, 'gaby if you keep on making those faces, the wind is going to blow and you will stay with that face for the rest of your life!' i was dead scared after that and believed all along for some time.

gaby r

I used to believe that people with hydrocephalus were called "waterheads" and the adults lived in the woods at Grant Park (Atlanta, GA) and if you drove out there after midnight and honked your car horn they'd all come running out of the woods and bite the tires off your car.

.... That was the story a neighbor kid told me and a group of other neighborhood kids. None of us believed her so she offered to prove it. She said a "waterhead" lived a couple of houses down from her so we all followed her to her house. We hid behind her mother's station wagon and waited. Soon a car pulled up and 2 people got out - a woman and a man with an enormous head. Why the fact that such a human condition as Hydrocephalus existed also confirmed her biazrre story of tire biting in our young little minds, I'll never know, but we believed it after that.

Linda Smith

When I was about 10 my family brought me to a big family party in the country. During the party I met a distant cousing whose left hand and fingers were deformed and crooked. For some reason I was convinced that if I let him touch me my hand would painfully transform in the same shape. I spent the rest of that day warning people not to approach him and running away when he got near. I was terrified, but I also enjoyed the excitement. I never saw him again. I'm sorry JP.

OJ

i used to believe that if you suked your cheeks in you would get dimples

Lindsay

when I was a kid, I found a scale in my leg. I thought I am turning into a mermaid, thought about it for a while then I scratched it off. After that i regretted what I did and always thought, "I would've been a mermaid right now If i didn't scratch off that scale" turns out it was just dry skin.

ryanne

I thought that when I closed my eyes no one would see me.

Invisible little fart

Whenever I would finish taking a bath, I would put on baby powder (a lot). Oh how I loved that feeling that I would get - I was just like my mother, primping and getting ready, feeling so grown-up.
My older sister told me that if I used any more powder, I would turn really white, ghost/sheet/snow white. After putting a lot on and seeing that it wasn't disappearing, I believed her.

I still don't use baby powder, even though I now know that it won't turn your skin a ghostly white.

Not the Brightest Blonde

when i was 5 someone told me thatif i made a ugly
face if the wind changed i would keepthat face for ever

b

I used to think my uncle Richard was Desi Arnaz. Don't ask me why, because I have no freaking idea. But a couple of days ago I looked at him and thought, "Hey, he actually sort of looks like Desi Arnaz..."

Lucy watcher

I used to believe that it was only acceptable to wear a bathrobe and slippers if you were a girl. My parents made me wear slippers all the time, and bathrobe with my pajamas, so while I obeyed the rules, I always felt a little weird. I remember asking my mom why I had to wear them, I'm not a girl. She just brushed it off and said that all good boys wear robes and slippers. Eventually I stopped caring and noticed that guys do wear them, just not as much as girls do

Anon

I had a strange idea of beauty when I was little. I believed people with curly hair were gorgeous and people with straight hair were ugly My friend and I had straight hair when we were very young, but as we got older my hair curled and her's didn't change. Therefore, one day I declared I was going to be a model and she couldn't because she was too ugly. Needless to say, we're not friends anymore.

Anon

I used to believe that hanging off of monkeybars would make me tall!

A. Rizvi

I used to believe that my apperence was picked by my dad making a plastic mould of a face and putting it in a zapping machine to create my appearence!

Quako

My sister used to tell me that if you wore "boxing shoes" that you would be able to run faster. Of course later in life I became aware that they were just regular sneakers.

Amanda

I've always ha d a little pop belly (I still do), all my friends had them too, so when I went off to school and us girls were playing house and we all pretended we were pregnant, it came as a shock when one girl lifted her shirt and she had a huge belly, and another was as flat as a board. After that I was stumped, "Why did these girls look different?" I came to a conclusion, they were other animals, not humans because humans all have pop bellies.

Karen