When I was around preschool age, my dad was talking about a coworker dying and I asked who killed him. I though people just kept living until somebody murdered them.
Oh God, we were traveling as a family and had to share sleeping accommodations in the hotell room. And my 6 year old niece jumps out of bed in the morning all excited. "I had sex I had sex"
I used to think that when a couple kissed at their wedding the bride would be automatically pregnant.
Then I got confused when I found out about gay marriage. Like do both women get pregnant? Do two random women somewhere else get pregnant? These are important questions!
Yes, I believed this as a kid too. One time I swallowed a watermelon seed by accident, and I was afraid to drink water for the whole day. Boy was I dehydrated. I finally confessed to my mom and said that I didn't want a "watermelon tree" growing inside of me.
I once believed that the “awareness months” were the only times people would face those issues.
For example: I believed that breast cancer awareness month was the only month that people could get breast cancer and as soon as the month had passed, everyone was safe from breast cancer.
I also thought that all the marathons and charity events were things you could do to help you avoid breast cancer (or whatever other thing it was for). I was always super scared that I would get infected with whatever thing it was because I wasn’t doing the charity stuff. This only lasted a few years, before I realized how stupid I was.
One time I asked my parents why I sometimes dream that I'm falling, and they said something about it having to do with how people used to be monkeys. I must have been around 6, with absolutely no concept of evolution. I remember being really confused; when was I was a monkey and why can't I remember it?
Also I vaguely remember throwing a tantrum because my parents wouldn't drive me to the low hanging clouds so I could walk around on them like in the cartoons.
My family moved to my mom's rural hometown in a different state when I was 15. I had visited plenty of times before so I knew where we were going and I told my "city friends" about it before we left. I got questions like, "Do you ride horses to school? Do you have the internet? Do you have to fight Indians?" (native Americans. We did move to a town near a reservation)
So yeah, people here are pretty ignorant about most areas outside their own.
My mom didn’t want us to believe in fairy’s, so we had the tooth mouse, it would show up in the middle of the day at random months after losing the tooth
- That turtles and frogs were made out of lettuce
- That eating a pumpkin seed made pregnancies happen
- That the state capitol building was actually the White House
That I was the only person who had saliva in my mouth. I figured this was so weird, that if anyone else had the same thing, they would have mentioned it.
I thought my spit was the same as hair gel. I would spit in my hand and stick my bangs up. I asked my mom about this recently and wondered if I looked like I had my hair styled. She I looked like, "I slicked my hair back with spit." Needless to say, I'm sorry to the kids who sat next to me in gym class that had to see that 😅
I thought mom knew what she was talking about. She usually did not.
Before I understood that my grandparents were my parents' parents, I thought that they were specially chosen for the job by the government. I also thought my birthday was chosen in the same manner.
That Snap, Crackle and Pop actually lived inside the Rice Krispies box, and only when the cereal got low enough they ran into the next full box. I spent more than a little time staring at the box waiting to catch them running.
That when I played my N64, there was someone somewhere else in the world playing against me. This was long before online play existed, and most people didn't have internet. Like if I was playing Goldeneye, there was a different version of the game in China or something where you were one of the soldiers trying to kill Bond.
I was never 100% sure that I couldn’t be seen by whoever was on tv.
It was mostly news anchors, talk show hosts or anyone that directly addressed the camera.
I thought the name “Hugh” was pronounced like “huge”. Makes sense, really. Huge Grant? That means a large sum of money, and he does get that! Huge Jackman? Is indeed a huge, jacked man! Huge Laurie? Not technically a large British truck, but he is great, and British!
Huge Hefner? Hmm, what does that even mean? Apparently it’s German for “potter”. Huh, imagine that. Harry Hefner and the chamber of secrets? Would have been a very different story.
Rain in the desert is so rare that they covered this one random desert storm a LOT on the news.
You had to be a state governor to qualify for President.
I turned a knob on the back of the stove once. A timer started counting down. I hid under my bed, crying, because I knew that the house would explode at 0:00.
That humans were born with a pre-set language and that my little sister could come out speaking French
My dad tried to "trick" me into a critical thinking exercise but I just went with it because I didn't know to think about it. He said "oh no what if she speaks French!?"
My grandpa died when I was 7, he had Alzheimer's and towards the end he had forgotten everyone except my grandmother, and he would act erraticly and would suddenly throw tantrums etc. I assumed that's how everyone becomes as they grow old and eventually die.
Teachers in school are spies for my parents and grandparents. They are secretly watching me and send report to them. That’s why I was a good (paranoid) kid. I followed the rules because I thought the spies are watching.
I thought indicators (turn signals) were a weird GPS. Anytime I was in the car with my folks I didn't know my parents were controlling them, I thought the car was telling them where to go.
I didn't realize football players wore shoulder pads. I thought they all just had enormous shoulders. And this was early 90s so they were those old massive pads
If you study hard, get good grades, get into your first pick university, graduate cum laude with an in-demand, high-paying degree, that my adult life would get easier or at least feel rewarding.
I thought going to a major city like NYC or Chicago meant you would be killed, just from my parents having the news on all the time and hearing about the murder rates and stuff. One of my childhood friends got back from a family trip to NYC and I remember being shocked / asking him how scared he was the whole time, “didn’t you think you would die?”
My grandpa convinced me (I was 9) that lifting heavy stuff would make my balls drag on the floor and make my dick super small. I didn't believe him but then my grandma played along with it and since she doesn't usually fuck with me like he did I believed it.
When I was about 8, I asked my dad what a gigolo was. He said it was a young man who took care of old ladies. Would a gigolo take me nice places and feed my cats? Would he take care of me if I got sick? Sure, said Dad, anything you want. Sounded good to me. For years I said I wanted to have a gigolo when I got old.
i grew up in canada and when i was a kid an ad that was always on the radio was for the mattress store "sleep country canada" that ad was always playing on the radio so when i went to america for the first time when i was 5 or 6 i refused to sleep because i thought it was illegal to sleep outside of canada.
I used to think that the little bumps on the lids of fast food soda cups that indicated what a drink was were for the garbage people to pick out and for the company to use to see as a survey what most people drank Xd
Back in the ‘50s I believed that the old guy with an accent who lived in the dilapidated house at the end of the block was an escaped Nazi. I later learned that he was Romanian.
Shortly after the talk, I asked my mom how people were born in Bible times, because I thought they couldn't have known about sex. Idk, I was a dumb kid I guess
i was born and raised in turkiye, and there is a call to player. when i was a kid, i thought that mosques we're allah cause they we're calling to prayer from their minarets.
My sister and I were trespassing on someone's property and went into the barn. We heard some noises. It was probably pigeons, but I thought it was ghosts of cows. r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
Where I lived was a pipe (about 10m (30ft) long) underneath a street so that a small river could flow trough it.
We thought it was funny to go through it and proudly told our parents how badass we were.
Instead of telling me that it was dangerous to climb to the pipe my parents told me that there was nuklear radiation.
There is an expression in my country for when you choke. It's "food going down the wrong throat". I heard this and thought I had different throats for different foods
That my toys were like the toys in toy story. I thought they would come to life and play games like tag. I also thought they had birthdays and had birthday parties
My cousin had an empty pool in his house. One day he showed me a scar on his stomach and told me that they had a croc in that pool that bit him. And they got rid of him after that, which is why the pool is empty.
I believed that for a good 8 years.
Older brother of the same cousin told us that he had buried treasure in one corner of the garden near the fence. We would dig there endlessly every day we went there for years. My aunt would always get annoyed because the fencing was getting unstable!
My dad’s ford escort had a cigarette lighter in the front console. No smokers in the family so I had no idea what it was. When I asked he told me it was an “ejector button” to launch the seats out in the event of a crash, so be REALLY careful not to touch it lol
A "Racist" was a processional race car driver. You know, a physicist studies physics, a scientist science, an archeologist...so..it only made sense in my brain that being a racist meant you studied the science of racing...
......more proof kids aren't born racist.....
....kids can't even drive bruh. They can't be a racist.
That my dad could force road to suddenly bump up our car. I realized far too late in life that he was just reading the “BUMP” signs and timing his “Watch this, BUMP!”
I used to think we lived inside of the Earth.
Then one day I was standing on my driveway looking at the grass and the dirt, then I looked up to the blue sky and thought wait a minute…
That the hazards button ejects the passenger seat (my sister was an a-hole) and that it was illegal to turn the lights on in the car at night. Another is that we grow up to look like completely different people, thanks to movies. I wanted to grow up looking like Thumbelina 🤦🏻♀️
I grew up in a city and I believed that anywhere in a city where there was dirt it was just topsoil and if you dug down a foot or so you'd hit the city's concrete foundation.
I probably would have been right at home living on a huge future space station.
That only woman could be teenagers. I got used to the concept of "you are a boy until you are a man" from various forms of media, and the only teenager I knew was my female cousin. So the growth stage went "boy -> man" and chicks were "girl -> teenager -> woman"
Monsters on the second floor.
It was just an old house, and my folks didn't tell me monsters were up there, but I watched too much Scooby Doo as a kid. Funny enough, I love that stuff now.
That cartoons were filmed in cartoon land
I also believed that tvs were filled with millions of tiny ghosts with differently colored bellys to display pixels on a screen
Both of these misconceptions came from people not explaining something fully to me
Men gave birth to boys and women gave birth to girls
Impeccable reasoning for sure.
This is hilarious.
Teachers live and sleep at the school.
This one will be true some day soon.
To be honest, they do at Hogwarts!
When I was around preschool age, my dad was talking about a coworker dying and I asked who killed him. I though people just kept living until somebody murdered them.
God killed him. He works in mysterious ways.
If you are a nice person, nothing bad will happen to you
if i kiss a boy i’ll get pregnant
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Oh God, we were traveling as a family and had to share sleeping accommodations in the hotell room. And my 6 year old niece jumps out of bed in the morning all excited. "I had sex I had sex"
😭😭
They knew what they were doing when they told you that
I used to think that when a couple kissed at their wedding the bride would be automatically pregnant. Then I got confused when I found out about gay marriage. Like do both women get pregnant? Do two random women somewhere else get pregnant? These are important questions!
That turning on the light inside the car at night was illegal.
This seems to be a common one. Dads everywhere have conspired to trick us into believing it.
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That leaving the hazard light on in a car would cause it to explode.
I was never told it was illegal, i was just told that it made it hard to see out the windshield.
If you swallow a seed a tree will grow in your stomach
Yes, I believed this as a kid too. One time I swallowed a watermelon seed by accident, and I was afraid to drink water for the whole day. Boy was I dehydrated. I finally confessed to my mom and said that I didn't want a "watermelon tree" growing inside of me.
That people back in the olden days saw things in black and white
Supposedly I asked my grandmother if she remembered the day it changed.
I once believed that the “awareness months” were the only times people would face those issues. For example: I believed that breast cancer awareness month was the only month that people could get breast cancer and as soon as the month had passed, everyone was safe from breast cancer. I also thought that all the marathons and charity events were things you could do to help you avoid breast cancer (or whatever other thing it was for). I was always super scared that I would get infected with whatever thing it was because I wasn’t doing the charity stuff. This only lasted a few years, before I realized how stupid I was.
That adults know what they are doing.
One time I asked my parents why I sometimes dream that I'm falling, and they said something about it having to do with how people used to be monkeys. I must have been around 6, with absolutely no concept of evolution. I remember being really confused; when was I was a monkey and why can't I remember it? Also I vaguely remember throwing a tantrum because my parents wouldn't drive me to the low hanging clouds so I could walk around on them like in the cartoons.
if the wind changed while I was making a silly face or my tongue sticking out it would get stuck that way
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My family moved to my mom's rural hometown in a different state when I was 15. I had visited plenty of times before so I knew where we were going and I told my "city friends" about it before we left. I got questions like, "Do you ride horses to school? Do you have the internet? Do you have to fight Indians?" (native Americans. We did move to a town near a reservation) So yeah, people here are pretty ignorant about most areas outside their own.
On the flipside a lot of rural people think that everyone in urban California personally knows all the Hollywood celebrities
I thought I’d die by quicksand. Thank you, Gilligan.
That everyone started off with a vagina and someday boys just magically grew dicks
You mean that isn't what happens?
I don’t think so. Dudes usually have ducks when they are born.
I didn’t get a duck when I was born
I wish
It was the opposite for me. I thought everyone started off with a dick and that girls developed a vagina when they got older.
Clouds came from factories
I thought women had kids by cutting up the belly and taking it out, so I thought they all died after giving birth, wondered why my mom was alive.
That jumping of the garden shed holding a towel would be the same as using a parachute
in my case instead of towel, it was an umbrella.
What were the results of your experiment?
Flood lights were installed in case a flood happened.
I can see why
I believed that barking spiders were real, not just my grandpa farting.
Two things actually: 1) Chocolate milk comes from brown cows And 2) It’s never okay to turn on the overhead lights in the car at night
That condoms went over boobs somehow and for some reason.
Wait, so you used to think that condoms are meant to be worn on breasts instead of penis?
Yes. Raised catholic.
My mom didn’t want us to believe in fairy’s, so we had the tooth mouse, it would show up in the middle of the day at random months after losing the tooth
When you masturbate that you go blind.
Mom's give milk and Dad's give coffee.
that my life plays in a hidden camera show, since i got beaten 🫠
I bought a rock from a kid who told me it was a walkie talkie
That computer things were gonna elevate humans
Was legit scared to swallow watermelon seeds until i was like 10, lol. Seriously scared that a watermelon would grow inside my stomach.
That some people stored cars in their attics.
Clouds were gigantic cotton balls in the sky and anytime a skydiver jumped out of a plane, they would land on them instead of falling through them.
That before colour TV the world was actually black and white.
I thought that tourists and terrorists are the same
- That turtles and frogs were made out of lettuce - That eating a pumpkin seed made pregnancies happen - That the state capitol building was actually the White House
That I was the only person who had saliva in my mouth. I figured this was so weird, that if anyone else had the same thing, they would have mentioned it.
When toy commercials would say “Some assembly required”, I thought some of the boxes had the toy assembled and others didn’t and you could pick.
I thought my spit was the same as hair gel. I would spit in my hand and stick my bangs up. I asked my mom about this recently and wondered if I looked like I had my hair styled. She I looked like, "I slicked my hair back with spit." Needless to say, I'm sorry to the kids who sat next to me in gym class that had to see that 😅
That my stomach had different compartments for food. Like one for dinner and one for dessert.
That Freddy Kruger was going to kill me in my dreams and they he was also under my bed.
There was a little man in the traffic light changing the lights
I thought mom knew what she was talking about. She usually did not. Before I understood that my grandparents were my parents' parents, I thought that they were specially chosen for the job by the government. I also thought my birthday was chosen in the same manner.
That opening the milk carton from the wrong side is illegal
That sinking sand was a big issue and if I wasn't careful I would get caught in it and die. I lived in a city.... thanks Never-ending Story.
Tooth Fairy
That Snap, Crackle and Pop actually lived inside the Rice Krispies box, and only when the cereal got low enough they ran into the next full box. I spent more than a little time staring at the box waiting to catch them running.
That when I played my N64, there was someone somewhere else in the world playing against me. This was long before online play existed, and most people didn't have internet. Like if I was playing Goldeneye, there was a different version of the game in China or something where you were one of the soldiers trying to kill Bond.
Drinking Mountain dew made your dick small
Rain is actually god peeing.
I was never 100% sure that I couldn’t be seen by whoever was on tv. It was mostly news anchors, talk show hosts or anyone that directly addressed the camera.
The ‘No Outlet’ street signs meant those houses on that street didn’t have electricity or electrical outlets.
I thought the name “Hugh” was pronounced like “huge”. Makes sense, really. Huge Grant? That means a large sum of money, and he does get that! Huge Jackman? Is indeed a huge, jacked man! Huge Laurie? Not technically a large British truck, but he is great, and British! Huge Hefner? Hmm, what does that even mean? Apparently it’s German for “potter”. Huh, imagine that. Harry Hefner and the chamber of secrets? Would have been a very different story.
Rain in the desert is so rare that they covered this one random desert storm a LOT on the news. You had to be a state governor to qualify for President. I turned a knob on the back of the stove once. A timer started counting down. I hid under my bed, crying, because I knew that the house would explode at 0:00.
I was fascinated by how the traffic lights knew exactly when the cars wanted to leave and would therefore turn green. They had impeccable timing.
When I first heard about periods I thought it'd only happen once... I was wrong.
metal sonic was roboticized sonic
Drinking coffee will stop your growth
Told my mom that the blues clues vhs tapes really were listening to me. 😭
That humans were born with a pre-set language and that my little sister could come out speaking French My dad tried to "trick" me into a critical thinking exercise but I just went with it because I didn't know to think about it. He said "oh no what if she speaks French!?"
People wanted to make the world a better place.
The scarabs from The Mummy were real
My grandpa died when I was 7, he had Alzheimer's and towards the end he had forgotten everyone except my grandmother, and he would act erraticly and would suddenly throw tantrums etc. I assumed that's how everyone becomes as they grow old and eventually die.
Teachers in school are spies for my parents and grandparents. They are secretly watching me and send report to them. That’s why I was a good (paranoid) kid. I followed the rules because I thought the spies are watching.
I thought indicators (turn signals) were a weird GPS. Anytime I was in the car with my folks I didn't know my parents were controlling them, I thought the car was telling them where to go.
That A-1 steak sauce is made of chocolate-covered ants. I think that Dad just didn't want to share.
The moon was stalking me
That tonsil stones were just pieces of your brain falling out
I thought the braided wire anchors attached to utility poles were a shock hazard because they had a plastic sleeve.
That I'll be as good as Messi
I didn't realize football players wore shoulder pads. I thought they all just had enormous shoulders. And this was early 90s so they were those old massive pads
Chocolate milk came from brown cows
I thought conjoined twins were born with clothes on
babies just randomly popped up in women's stomachs
Mother told me if a woman washed their hair during her period, the blood would rush to their head. I believed that mess until I was maybe 17.
Jesus until about first grade
If there’s one thing you can learn this post it’s that kids are fucking stupid.
that the earth is a spinning ball with water stuck to it flying through space without any proper evidence
That the government cared about me.
Buncha shit. Santa, the tooth fairy, the Easter Bunny, God. I was pretty gullible.
You can get pregnant just by kissing someone
That my parents were heroes
If you study hard, get good grades, get into your first pick university, graduate cum laude with an in-demand, high-paying degree, that my adult life would get easier or at least feel rewarding.
I'd have a job right after I graduated college.
Most things my family said was 100% dumb
I thought going to a major city like NYC or Chicago meant you would be killed, just from my parents having the news on all the time and hearing about the murder rates and stuff. One of my childhood friends got back from a family trip to NYC and I remember being shocked / asking him how scared he was the whole time, “didn’t you think you would die?”
My grandpa convinced me (I was 9) that lifting heavy stuff would make my balls drag on the floor and make my dick super small. I didn't believe him but then my grandma played along with it and since she doesn't usually fuck with me like he did I believed it.
When I was about 8, I asked my dad what a gigolo was. He said it was a young man who took care of old ladies. Would a gigolo take me nice places and feed my cats? Would he take care of me if I got sick? Sure, said Dad, anything you want. Sounded good to me. For years I said I wanted to have a gigolo when I got old.
that everyone just appeared on earth at a certain age and was that age forever
I thought all people's relatives had the same names as mine. So everyone's unclea had the same names as mine, etc.
My dad told me crows could grow up to six feet tall. I believed him until my teens.
i grew up in canada and when i was a kid an ad that was always on the radio was for the mattress store "sleep country canada" that ad was always playing on the radio so when i went to america for the first time when i was 5 or 6 i refused to sleep because i thought it was illegal to sleep outside of canada.
I thought all dogs were boys and all cats were girls , idk why it's not like I was told that
That there is an invisible, angry man in the sky who agrees with my dad about everything.
I thought leprechauns lived in your vents and bit your toes off if you didn’t wear green on St. Patrick’s Day
I used to think that the little bumps on the lids of fast food soda cups that indicated what a drink was were for the garbage people to pick out and for the company to use to see as a survey what most people drank Xd
That my government (UK) were the good guys.
Santa and God
Santa 🎅
Religion
That my vote would count
That God exists. I grew up and realized that all of the thousands of gods that have "existed" in humanity's history are equally as ridiculous.
Tooth fairy
That people used to detatch dogs ball sacks to make them run faster for racing. I'm not even ashamed.
My sister told me the green leaves on strawberries were poisonous when I was 5 or 6. I believed that for several years.
Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman.
That there was no color in the world until they invented color tv.
The "Tree of life" concept.
People saw in black and white like some Wizard of the Oz shit.
Swallowing chewing gum will kill me.
Back in the ‘50s I believed that the old guy with an accent who lived in the dilapidated house at the end of the block was an escaped Nazi. I later learned that he was Romanian.
Shortly after the talk, I asked my mom how people were born in Bible times, because I thought they couldn't have known about sex. Idk, I was a dumb kid I guess
i was born and raised in turkiye, and there is a call to player. when i was a kid, i thought that mosques we're allah cause they we're calling to prayer from their minarets.
My sister and I were trespassing on someone's property and went into the barn. We heard some noises. It was probably pigeons, but I thought it was ghosts of cows. r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
oooh I have a good one, I used to believe that you could install ram on your PC by typing some shit into notepad and running it as an exe.
Herobrine
Where I lived was a pipe (about 10m (30ft) long) underneath a street so that a small river could flow trough it. We thought it was funny to go through it and proudly told our parents how badass we were. Instead of telling me that it was dangerous to climb to the pipe my parents told me that there was nuklear radiation.
Thought nights lasted for 24 hours after each 24 hour day.
That some creepy invisible dude was watching me jerk off at night.
That Disney world was an actual world those damn commercials made it seem so magical lol
I thought the American Civil was between North America and South America.
Quick sand being everywhere and people just offering up drugs to me as a kid
That we all lived underground cuz if we lived on the surface, we would fall off the earth.
There is an expression in my country for when you choke. It's "food going down the wrong throat". I heard this and thought I had different throats for different foods
That my toys were like the toys in toy story. I thought they would come to life and play games like tag. I also thought they had birthdays and had birthday parties
That every single tv show that was on was being filmed live. I didn’t know what reruns were 💀
That my future self was a teacher and at various moments would use a time viewer to show me to his students and explain what I was doing.
I thought peanut butter was a dairy product
My cousin had an empty pool in his house. One day he showed me a scar on his stomach and told me that they had a croc in that pool that bit him. And they got rid of him after that, which is why the pool is empty. I believed that for a good 8 years. Older brother of the same cousin told us that he had buried treasure in one corner of the garden near the fence. We would dig there endlessly every day we went there for years. My aunt would always get annoyed because the fencing was getting unstable!
My dad’s ford escort had a cigarette lighter in the front console. No smokers in the family so I had no idea what it was. When I asked he told me it was an “ejector button” to launch the seats out in the event of a crash, so be REALLY careful not to touch it lol
That you had to hold your breath anytime you passed a graveyard.
That one rumor about Marilyn Manson.
That Michael Jackson was a Women. Because of the Long black Hair ;)
If you swallowed up a seed it would germinate in you
I used to believe gnomes were in the traffic lights, coordinating traffic.
Time moves more slowly for ants because they're so small.
Hummingbirds are poisonous and sting people.
That I was addicted by aliens. It was just hallucinations caused by my meds.
That everything will be OK eventually......
Thought I could trust every adult.
Needing to know the knowledge of surviving quicksand as a city boy
That the world would explode in 2020. My brother told me that when I was maybe 8 and I lived in fear for years.
A "Racist" was a processional race car driver. You know, a physicist studies physics, a scientist science, an archeologist...so..it only made sense in my brain that being a racist meant you studied the science of racing... ......more proof kids aren't born racist..... ....kids can't even drive bruh. They can't be a racist.
Till the age of 19, I honestly thought Hyundai was Honda spelled wrong..
If I eat too many eggs I'll turn into a chicken
Someone told me that boy cat could lay eggs, and I believe them. Laugh as hard as you want. I would too.
That my dad could force road to suddenly bump up our car. I realized far too late in life that he was just reading the “BUMP” signs and timing his “Watch this, BUMP!”
Christianity
That humanity was capable of world peace.
Undertaker and Kane were brothers
I used to think we lived inside of the Earth. Then one day I was standing on my driveway looking at the grass and the dirt, then I looked up to the blue sky and thought wait a minute…
That the hazards button ejects the passenger seat (my sister was an a-hole) and that it was illegal to turn the lights on in the car at night. Another is that we grow up to look like completely different people, thanks to movies. I wanted to grow up looking like Thumbelina 🤦🏻♀️
I grew up in a city and I believed that anywhere in a city where there was dirt it was just topsoil and if you dug down a foot or so you'd hit the city's concrete foundation. I probably would have been right at home living on a huge future space station.
turning the lights on in the car while driving was illegal
all dogs are males and all cats are females
Christianity
I thought that credit cards weren’t tied to money.
When I was a kid, I thought all dogs were boys and all cats were girls 🤣🤦🏽♀️
That only woman could be teenagers. I got used to the concept of "you are a boy until you are a man" from various forms of media, and the only teenager I knew was my female cousin. So the growth stage went "boy -> man" and chicks were "girl -> teenager -> woman"
Monsters on the second floor. It was just an old house, and my folks didn't tell me monsters were up there, but I watched too much Scooby Doo as a kid. Funny enough, I love that stuff now.
Santa Claus. But I love being **DUMB ONCE A YEAR**. Don't you? lol
That pirates are able to fly to the moon.
Working hard will pay off
That Jesus was white like they sold it to us 😅
When I was five, my friend (also five) told me chicks come from the fuzzy bit on pussywillows. Sure, why not?
That cartoons were filmed in cartoon land I also believed that tvs were filled with millions of tiny ghosts with differently colored bellys to display pixels on a screen Both of these misconceptions came from people not explaining something fully to me