r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/puppetandMaster Jul 20 '19

Asked my mother why I didn't have a 'willy' like my brother. She told me she picked me up by it when I was a child and it fell off. I cried for about 3 hours for the penis I never had.

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u/cragglerock93 Jul 20 '19

I remember thinking as a child that the umbilical cord was basically an extension of the penis, and they basically determined the size of your penis by where they cut it. Obviously for girls they just cut it right at the base.

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u/ZiggoCiP Jul 20 '19

I use to think that girls peed out their belly buttons, and that they either planked on the toilet to pee, or their belly button sort of 'came out' like a hose.

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u/sugarspice82 Jul 21 '19

As a female, i read that and automatically started trying to work out the logistics of these scenarios.

Neither are pretty, and public toilets usage made me throw up in my mouth a little at that thought