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Mum would tell us that if we made a silly face and the wind changed then our faces would stay like that forever

Anon

I used to believe all Kings were incredibly slow and all Queens were incredibly fast.

Bijan

My sister (Who is 18 now) told my mother that she had a "Chocolate Girl" In her classroom. She also said she tasted sweet. (She licked her arm)

Bijan

I used to believe that when I was changing my clothes I had to keep my back covered somehow or get clothed really quickly or else the devil would come from behind me and kill me by stabbing me with a knife.

D.C.

I used to believe that when you put on a shoe, it didn't matter about if it was left or right, it just had to it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

egaDDe

I had a really little pair of short shorts when i was 7, and i thought that if someone else wore them then they'd become me !

Libbeh

After going to a lot of Indian restaurants and being a huge fan of Indian food, I thought that everyone of Indian descent was born with a dot in the middle of their forehead.

Anon

Ok when I was in Kidnergarten my mom wanted to get me to get my ears pierced and I was really excited about it! But a couple days before I was supposed to get my ears pierced a kid at school told me that when you got your ears pierced that blood squirted everywhere and that it hurt REALLY REALLY bad!! I was terrified!!! When I got home I told my mom I didn't want my ears pierced and why. She told me it didn't hurt but I told her, YEAH IT DOES!! I was convinced that if I got my ears pierced I would bleed to death!! I didn't stop believing that till I finally got my ears pierced when I was 11 years old!!

Jessica

my mum says don't lie other wise my nose will grow bigger!

Anon

i was always told if i pulled a face and the wind changed id always stay that way! it scared the life out of me i didnt pull any faces again!

Anon

I have a reddish birthmark on my left arm right at the crease of my elbow, about an inch in diameter. My mom told me when I was young that it was a scar, from when my uncle was holding me as a baby and smoking at the same time, and ashes from his cigarette fell on my arm and burned me. After a few years, my father was finally able to convince me that it was really just a birthmark, and that my mom was being silly.

Except she really -does- believe it is a burn mark, despite the fact that a burn that bad as a baby I would have had to have gone to the hospital for...

Not burned

One day when i was about 6, i was watching the news on tv, and something came on about a high school, and i thought to myself ''why is everyone all different heights if they are the same age?'' becoz i always used to think that what ever age you are, everyone that age is the same height. so u can imagine how this all confused me

brie

When I was about six years old, and played in this kind of attick in our farm-builing, I believed that my father couldn't see me because I was actually turning into the little dwarf I was pretending to be..maybe not a uniqe story, but funny when you come to think about it:-)

Anon

I used to think all foreigners had to look different from English people.

Anon

(i was told)(by my mum)if you didn't let your mum squeeze your blackheads they would grow big and drag you down to the river - i knew an old man ( a saw doctor) who had enormous ones so i knew they did get big

eric irwin, aged 50 and a half

there was a guy at my church whose eyebrows were pointy so it looked like he was angry all the time. My sister and i believed that he was in fact angry all the time and we named him "the angry man".

Emily

i used to think for some strange reason that people had really long noses like a sweeping brush handel and they were called nib nabs

me

I used to think that if you wore underwear made for the opposite gender, you would become the opposite gender. My brother wanted to be a girl, so i gave him a pair of my underwear and he wore it but didn't turn into a girl. He was so disappointed...

Anon

I used to believe that every kid with a loop of hair at the back of his head was named Luke. Who knows why...

Gabrielle

my brother always used to say to me if i pulled a stupid face that the wind would change and my face would stay like that forever.

mar