On behalf of every child with Autism, I would happily punch people who think/say this in the throat. I would have to start with my parent in-laws. Possibly my parents too. They didn't say it out loud, but I know they were 'thinking' it.

Tigers wearing their own whiskers didn’t get much protection.

If a boy picks up a doll, that doll magically transforms into an action figure!

If rich people were putting their money back into the economy, there wouldn't be any billionaires.

There is basis of truth in this one. People stay inside more during cold weather. Spending more time with other people in an enclosed space makes you more likely to be exposed to any viruses that might be around. Also, studies have found that airborne viruses are carried farther by the more denser cold air. Therefore, there is a greater chance of airborne viruses touching a person rather than ending up on the ground.

No! You should file it straight away to find them sooner

You can break your "freshness seal" by riding a bike....I never understood the obsession.

Thats why its called believing and Not knowing

We've been eating GMOs for 1000s of years. That's what selective breeding does. Some of the foods we eat would be poisonous in their original forms

But I still have this suspicion about some people I meet.

When you shave, the hair is cut in two. The lower part of the hair is now the top, where it used.tot be the middle of a hair. The original top of the hair had to move up to skin level and further on and was damaged doing so. And damaged means thinner. So the cut side is al the way up and as thick as possible. And this is what you experience when it grows further on. Massive and thick hair.

This was hilarious! Can those people please draw a pic on how they think your arms and the cord ia connected?

Can't we just agree that we all suck equally and move on?

I hope you have looked into these stomachs in a professional capacity?

It does lead to the people around you being annoyed though.

Is your cat really damned by god?

Who’s worried about this anyway? Is someone thinking they’ll have to take the corpse to a hair salon for a trim and manicure?

it can be looked as a good thing that this myth was made, keeps children (or anyone for that matter) from snatching them

I've always hears that this come from cats that end up sleeping on a baby and the baby can't breath. I have no idea if this is true or not.

Chopping off bits of a baby's body is a horrific thing to do.

Only if it is a hybrid created in a Chinese research lab and one of its parents was a snapping turtle.

funnily enough I had a major sweet tooth in both my girl pregnancies and was craving savoury foods with my boy. Didn't know about that belief though...

As Fleetwood Mac would say, “Lightning strikes maybe once, maybe twice.”

Not true. Incels are pretty easy to spot sometimes.

Bulls become angry when men in stupid Prince outfits taunt them while crowds cheer and then the poor bulls get speared. Absolutely disgusting.

It will cause you to lose your place on the page.

Or get squared eyes

It is a ridiculous belief, I have eaten 8 just this morning.

100% true. I heard the same c**p my whole life. Did the old 23&me test... ZERO native DNA. I'm literally more Neanderthal than Native American.

the myth of native american ancestry is also common amongst many african-americans...which, when you think of it, is a great coping mechanism...imagining your great-great-grandmother falling in love and having babies with a native american is a much nicer way of thinking about how your skin is lighter than say, a someone from africa, rather than acknowledging the more likely explanation that your great-great-grandmother was likely raped by her white oppressors...as if being enslaved were not enough.

My mother said this, and actually believed it and still does. She actually chastised me for not using that 'part Cherokee' to help get myself into college. Yeah, right. I'm unable to be in direct sunlight because the reflected light would strip the paint off cars. I'm not part Cherokee, I'm part bleach.

I watched an Elizabeth Warren interview where she was asked if she had any proof that her ancestors were Cherokee Indians. She responded "My grandfather had high cheek bones."

Everyone believed my great great grandmother was Blackfoot. We found a picture of her a few years ago. No way she was Blackfoot, white girl all the way.

I was just watching a Finding Your Roots where the guest's ancestor had claimed Native heritage but old census data indicated mulatto, the latter was true. She asked why the picture of her grandmother looked Native and the host said, your seeing all the European mixed in. Race is such a silly construct. Americans terrible history means we can't let it go

We even have a photograph of my grandfather's parents in which his mother looks uncannily like an old native american woman. But my mother's 23-and-me results came back 0% native.

Take a DNA test and solve this issue once and for all for your family history!

What's funny is that it's always Cherokee and never any other Nation. Never Choctaw or Sequoia or Natchez or Pomo. Just Cherokee..I guess it's more fun to say. What a bunch of dummies.

Could someone write a bit more about this myth please? I never heard about it (I'm not from the US) and it seems interesting.

I've read that many who think they are part native American, especially if it is a very small part in an otherwise Caucasian family often is part African American. It used to be that having a for example Cherokee great grandmother was way less embarrassing than an African American ancestor, but this native American relative could explain darker skin etc. Nowadays this lie is so many generations back and has been told and retold so much that the actual truth isn't known.

Except that I've actually seen some people with my great-grandma's maiden name on the Dawes Rolls for both Cherokees and Choctaws. And I don't think her maiden name was a very common name.

Oddly, my sisters *are* part Cherokee. Their either great-great or great-great-great grandma was Cherokee. The man who fathered them showed it in his looks, and with 1 of my sisters it's very obvious. I myself am so pale I pitied photographers trying to get good lighting in family pics to highlight them without making me glow lol

This happened to me too. My dad's mom told him all kinds of stories about it and my dad really identified with what he thought was his native American ancestry. I did a DNA ancestry thing and it came back showing me as 100% European (and yes, he was my real dad.) I decided not to tell him at the time and then he passed unexpectedly last October. I struggle with wondering if I made the right decision to not to him.

Soooooo many people I know were gobsmacked when they did their DNA tests and found zero Native American genes. I knew there was zero chance I was since my grandparents are from Poland and Italy but I thought SOMETHING unexpected would show up. Nope. Split right in half 50/50 lol. My husband has quite a lot of Chickasaw in his blood since his paternal grandmother was 1/2 Swedish and 1/2 Native, roughly.

Not Cherokee specifically, but I remember my Papa (paternal grandfather) telling me that we were part Native American. He was researching our genealogy, so I didn't think to doubt him, though that was back before Ancestry.com was a thing not to mention DNA testing. I remember saying something to my dad about it and he said my Papa just thinks that because we tan easily. Sure enough, I did the DNA testing and an almost certainly 100% white. In fact, there's a significant percentage Scandinavian, so I'm even more white than I thought.

Yup - that tale is passed down in my mom's southern family too. I guess an upside would be that it might help people be less racist toward Native Americans.

We also heard that family legend. Our family tree on FamilySearch.org does include a documented member of the Cherokee Nation back a couple hundred years, but I haven't checked all the sources of all the links to confirm if it's true. It's also on a different branch than the legend, so...

$5 Indian perhaps?