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[Elder Legend]

At some point in our lifetime we were all children. We all grew up with different backgrounds, beliefs, families and so on.. and as a child sometimes you think of a lot of silly thing and assume that they were true.

So as a child what things did you think were true or real but when you got older you realized how dumb and silly you were for thinking so? This is a bit of embarrassing thread, but honestly it's just for silly good fun.

I'll kick it off!

I used to think that only guys go to the bathroom to poo and the girls don't and that girls are always clean and are never dirty.

What about you?

 

[Blade2.0]

That the rich were the smartest and most deserving of us. Definitely had to walk that back when I got older. Also, I was Catholic.

 

[Catphish]

If you swallow gum, it ends up in your foot.

If you chew pencil lead, you get lockjaw.

If a penny is dropped from the Sears Tower and hits your head, edge down, it will travel straight through you and exit your taint.

Railroad security has legal permission to shoot you if they catch you trespassing on the tracks.

An aphrodisiac will make any female want to have immediate sex with you.

 

[Mr Hyde]

I grew up in a large neighborhood which, when I was a wee child, thought was the entire world. We had a grocery store where my mom would take me to shop, a kiosk for candy and so on so the neighborhood was pretty self sufficient. My school was only a couple of blocks away and I went there to and from my home everyday. I thought that was it. That was my world. When I started growing up, I heard whispers about the big city, the "other world" outside, and I was like "what the hell, there is a world outside our neighborhood?" When I was finally old enough to explore this forbidden realm it blew my mind. It kinda reflects Midgar in Final Fantasy 7, where you spend a good portion in town before you are let loose out in the open world.

 

[Doom85]

I grew up in a large neighborhood which, when I was a wee child, thought was the entire world. We had a grocery store where my mom would take me to shop, a kiosk for candy and so on so the neighborhood was pretty self sufficient. My school was only a couple of blocks away and I went there to and from my home everyday. I thought that was it. That was my world. When I started growing up, I heard whispers about the big city, the "other world" outside, and I was like "what the hell, there is a world outside our neighborhood?" When I was finally old enough to explore this forbidden realm it blew my mind. It kinda reflects Midgar in Final Fantasy 7, where you spend a good portion in town before you are let loose out in the open world.

Never knew The Truman Show was based off a true story…

 

[Pejo]

I thought these were what Ultraman hung his suit up on to recharge it.

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

I thought that russia had a strong capable military..

 

[AJUMP23]

Most politicians were honest.

 

[01011001]

I mean the obvious one is the bible...

but other than that,
I thought world war 1 and 2 were literally wars where THE ENTIRE EARTH just had a big deathmatch, and only the winners still exist.
because to my 6yo mind, world war meant WORLD war

 

[Lasha]

I thought boys and girls both had penises and only differed in the number of testes. I was wrong for awhile but eventually I turned out to be right overall

 

[Darkmakaimura]

When I was a very little kid I thought there was a hundred minutes in an hour.

I used to think the past was actually in black and white in real life.

I thought that the clouds above were the continents that you see on the Earth from space and we were on the inside.

I believed in a lot of stupid shit when I was a little kid.

 

[FunkMiller]

God.

 

[Power Pro]

That true love existed. That there was "the one" out there for every one.

 

[nush]

Follow the rules, work hard, have good behavior and you'll get the rewards.

 

[kanjobazooie]

Adults never lie because lying is bad.

 

[Elder Legend]

Adults never lie because lying is bad.

I see you took that personally and admitted your love for mice balls to the entire world since previously you lied to people about your mice fetishes in the past. You sir are an inspiration!

 

[SegaManAU]

That the police would pull you over if you drove with the interior light on in the car lol

 

[anthony2690]

Women don't fart

 

[Coconutt]

That all democrats are good and virtuous and all republicans are evil, now I realize that both sides have their good and bad, as I grow older leaning more towards the right.

 

[IDKFA]

That men only had a limited supply of seamen.

When I first started flicking one off the wrist, I was always worried I'd run out and then not be able to have children.

 

[jufonuk]

Maths science and English were the subjects to get ahead. all other lessons did not hold as much value. At least that's what my parents taught me.


Oh the national record of achievement would be needed your whole life. Never had use. (UK specific thing Around the early nineties maybe onwards?)

University is the way to go. It will help your job prospects

I get it. My parents wanted the best for us. They didn't have free uni education or the opportunity to go. But unless you want to be a doctor or something that needs those academic qualifications. Sometimes uni isn't needed and well when you end up at work. Oh uni degree. Great. Bit you don't know the job or local knowledge. You still need to train up.

 

[fran.fernandez]

There is a drink called “cola de mono”, or “monkey tail” and someone told me Is made with monkey placenta. I was sure about that for many years

 

[Rayderism]

When I was like 5 years old, I used to think fat people were filled with too much air and needed someone to poke them with a pin and let all the air out so they wouldn't be fat anymore.

 

[German Hops]

I thought "busting a nut" would be painful.

 

[Umbasaborne]

I thought men and women had penises until i was about i was about 4 (no this is not political commentary, please spare me your snide remarks)

 

[MidGenRefresh]

I thought that world used to be black and white.

 

[German Hops]

I thought men and women had penises until i was about i was about 4 (no this is not political commentary, please spare me your snide remarks)

 

[DeepEnigma]

That California had hoverboards like Back to the Future and they will eventually come to the US.

That everything cool started in California first.

 

[German Hops]

That everything cool started in California first.

I still believe the best stuff comes from Cali. I guess I'm that naïve, though.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I still believe the best stuff comes from Cali. I guess I'm that naïve, though.

 

[Aesius]

I thought AIDS was caused by getting someone else's blood on you. Nothing about the HIV virus or the person needing to have it in the first person. Just mixing blood in general meant AIDS.

I also thought an immigration visa was the same thing as a Visa credit/debit card, and that having a Visa credit/debit card was all you needed to live in America.

Oh, and when my family got our first computer in the early 90s, the startup video was some dude explaining how to use the computer. I thought he could see me and my family because I guess I had recently seen something on TV showing early videoconferencing.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Drugs are all the same.
You can revive a character in FFVII

 

[Winter John]

I thought Starsky & Hutch were real cops. One of my uncles was a desk sergeant so I‘d always ask him what they were up to cos i just figured with him being a cop he knew them.

 

[Blade2.0]

That California had hoverboards like Back to the Future and they will eventually come to the US.

That everything cool started in California first.

Now you know it's California and Atlanta.

 

[DetectiveBananas]

1. Mountain Dew makes you sterile…Still waiting for the data on that one.
2. The D.A.R.E. Program actually kept kids off drugs
3. Girls could potentially be Witches and place curses on boys they hate! Trying times in 1st grade!

 

[TheGreatMusashi]

I believed for way longer than I should have that moles on your body are a separate, living entity. Like they somehow attached themselves or grew on you and just hung out, along for the ride.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

My uncle would do that coin from the ear trick where he puts it in his mouth, and then pulls it from his ear.

I used to think how a coin would go up the side of his head.

 

[StylishMGTOW]

As a rule, I thought all white people picked their noses and ate what they found.

I was 5.

 

[JC 1080P CRT]

- I thought everybody who had the same last name was related to each other.
- I use to think "Aunt"/"Uncle" referred to female/male friends of my parents.

 

[LarsQMorient]

When I was a very little kid I thought there was a hundred minutes in an hour.

I used to think the past was actually in black and white in real life.

I thought that the clouds above were the continents that you see on the Earth from space and we were on the inside.

I believed in a lot of stupid shit when I was a little kid.

I thought that world used to be black and white.

I think you guys would like this:

 

[LarsQMorient]

- I thought everybody who had the same last name was related to each other.
- I use to think "Aunt"/"Uncle" referred to female/male friends of my parents.

Some people use "aunt"/"uncle" like that.

Oxford Dictionary also has these definitions besides the usual ones:
Uncle: an unrelated older male friend, especially of a child.
Aunt: an unrelated adult female friend, especially of a child.

 

[Ecotic]

I thought hardcore criminals became police officers because they had experience running in with police and knew the business of being a criminal. There was a Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman episode where the town criminal was running for sheriff and everyone wanted to vote for him as opposed to Dr. Quinn's adopted son, so I thought that's how it worked.

 

[Fuz]

I thought that everyone in church was aware that those were only stories with a moral, not real history.


Still, unironically, have lots of trouble processing that some people really believe that shit.

 

[German Hops]

I thought that everyone in church was aware that those were only stories with a moral, not real history.


Still, unironically, have lots of trouble processing that some people really believe that shit.

Are you serious, lol.
I'm not a theologian, but of course those "stories" happened in history.

 

[Fuz]

I'm not a theologian, but of course those "stories" happened in history.

Spoiler

 

[JC 1080P CRT]

Some people use "aunt"/"uncle" like that.

Oxford Dictionary also has these definitions besides the usual ones:
Uncle: an unrelated older male friend, especially of a child.
Aunt: an unrelated adult female friend, especially of a child.

Oh, interesting! I was aware of that sort of usage in a lot of East Asian/SEA cultures, I didn't know it extended more widely to Western cultures and contexts.

Mildly amusing anecdote along that line: Back when I was around 7-8 years old, my mom's best friend at the time was a black woman. I can't remember if she or my mom encouraged it, but we used to call her "Aunt (Name)." At least one time when I mentioned her to kids at my school, I remember a few of them being confused at the dissimilarity between her and me (our family is a bunch of mutt white people, for reference).

Maybe the concept of "aunt/uncle" also referring to non-relatives is closer to home than I originally thought!

 

[Ce'Nedra]

As I kid, being 5-6 years old (97-98) by some bizarre reason I thought that everytime we reached 2000, the year just reset once again to 1996.

And the most typical: that I was a mage waiting for his letter (said by older brother) to hogwarts. He apologized some years ago for the trauma.

 

[Ownage]

Gum takes 7 years to digest in your stomach.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

There was a commercial for a contest on Nickelodeon that promised to turn you and your friends into "party animals". The kids on the commercial transformed into gorillas.

I remember my babysitter asking why I was crying and then laughing when I said, "But what if they can't change you back "

 

[I_D]

"Cooties."

"Snitches get stitches."

"Never tell anybody your real name on the internet."

"What are they gonna do? Fire me?"