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Things you used to believe as a kid

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People actually died in movies. I remember asking my older brother where they put all the bodies from the movies.

Blowjobs actually entailed a girl blowing on your penis.

Black people had white poop.
 
Astery said:
When I was a kid, I believed:
1) Justice is there, bad guys will get nailed down sooner or later.
2) Every jobs are fair, nothing as a low tier job
3) All people that do their job decent get their fair amount share of reward, be that salary or recognizance or in some other form.
4) job skills > social skills.

I was wrong.
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You must be a hit at parties.
 
HiroProtagonist said:
When I was in 5th grade (5TH GRADE!) I was on the honor roll, but did not know the days of the week. Nobody had bothered to teach me the DAYS OF THE WEEK. I remember being angry at my parents, and very embarrassed. I can recall in detail the class room, the group desk I was sitting at, and my blank page that was meant to contain the days in order.
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Similar for me except it was months of the year. I specifically remember going to pre-school one day and them telling me I missed the day they taught this. Of course I know them now, but it was a long time before I knew the proper order.
 
That everything was stricter in the olden days- for example socks would be labelled left and right, and you'd have to abide by that.
 
My parents used to scare me by saying that if I kept sitting too close to the TV, I'd need glasses. So I started sitting as far away from it as possible.
 
I can think of many fairly common misconceptions that I believed as a kid (learning martial arts from TV, world used to be black and white, etc.), but one that will always stand out to me was my interpretation of road signs.

I was convinced that an arrow pointing upwards on a sign meant that the road I'm on is airplane compatible, and that they could takeoff/land from it. Also, I assumed that some cars could fly, and this is the appropriate place to takeoff from if yours could.
 
I used to think that the studio audience laughter during sitcoms was actually the laughter coming from other people watching the same show in their homes, and that the speaker was some kind of magical two-way microphone/speaker device. So every once in a while I would get close to the TV and laugh loud and hearty at the jokes so that other people would hear me laughing too.
 
Satyamdas said:
I used to think that the studio audience laughter during sitcoms was actually the laughter coming from other people watching the same show in their homes, and that the speaker was some kind of magical two-way microphone/speaker device. So every once in a while I would get close to the TV and laugh loud and hearty at the jokes so that other people would hear me laughing too.
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There was a secret fourth traffic light. It was blue, and it meant to go really fast. I have no clue why I believed it, but I'm pretty sure it didn't stem from speeding away from the police.

A funny one I heard from a friend was that in kindergarten she thought that white people tasted like vanilla and black people tasted like chocolate. Her and another friend actually licked each other's arms to see if it was true.
 
I remember when I was little and saw some nudie pics in playboy and assumed that girls must have penises on the back side because their butts were on the front.

Glad that theory turned out wrong.
 
Used to thing the various appliances in my house could talk and would secretly throw parties when the house was empty...

To add to this, I watched The Brave Little Toaster about 400 times in a year when I was 7. Completely destroyed the VHS from use too.
 
When I was young, I was convinced that tampons were some delicious form of candy. Whenever I saw my sister with them, I was convinced she was keeping a super delicious candy a secret from me and keeping it to herself. For some reason I thought that the packaging of tampons looked like of candy packaging.
 
Wickwire said:
People actually died in movies. I remember asking my older brother where they put all the bodies from the movies.

Blowjobs actually entailed a girl blowing on your penis.

Black people had white poop.
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One of these is worse than the other.
 
Holy shit this thread is hilarious.

Rain was God's tears.
General belief in the supernatural/God.
Wrasslin was real.
Good grades meant you were smart.
I didn't how Australia was possible, given that they'd fall off the earth.
 
I used to believe that criminals and ex-felons became cops, because they were the most knowledgeable about the police and the criminal justice system.
 
Ecotic said:
I used to believe that criminals and ex-felons became cops, because they were the most knowledgeable about the police and the criminal justice system.
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Platy said:
90% of the List of common misconceptions from wikipedia ...


....and 50% of those were changed only because i read that article xD
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Humans have more than five senses. Although definitions vary, the actual number ranges from 9 to more than 20. In addition to sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing, which were the senses identified by Aristotle, humans can sense balance and acceleration (equilibrioception), pain (nociception), body and limb position (proprioception or kinesthetic sense), and relative temperature (thermoception).[159] Other senses sometimes identified are the sense of time, itching, pressure, hunger, thirst, fullness of the stomach, need to urinate, need to defecate, and blood carbon dioxide levels.[160][161]
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Wow.

That makes sense.
 
Satyamdas said:
I used to think that the studio audience laughter during sitcoms was actually the laughter coming from other people watching the same show in their homes, and that the speaker was some kind of magical two-way microphone/speaker device. So every once in a while I would get close to the TV and laugh loud and hearty at the jokes so that other people would hear me laughing too.
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Aw, that's great!
 
During my height of obsession with the old Hulk tv show, I thought if you got mad enough you could Hulk out and I would try to get myself to do it. I was six or seven...I didn't necessarily think I would get big and green, but I thought I could generate super strength if I tried hard enough.

Hence, my avatar.
 
The older you got the less children could understand you.

My grandparents were from Mexico and have very thick accents.

I must've been like 4 and English is my primary language.
 
I used to think "Middle Earth' was in the middle of earth's crust, as in underground. It really confused me as to why you could see the sky in the movies.

I think it steamed from the fact that I didn't consider any geographical place on earth to be the middle since it's round.
 
Jeff Albertson said:
I once asked my mum how tattoos were done and for some reason I heard needle as eagle and as you do as a kid you just believe it.

For years I thought somehow an eagles talon or beak was used to do tattoos.

Didnt help that a studio in town was called Eagles wings.
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When I was very small and we first got a car that had a brakelight set on top of the back seat (like in middle of the back window), I asked my dad why it was there. He said "all new cars have them," by which he meant that it was the style of new cars at that time. What I THOUGHT he meant was that new cars have them, so you took them off after you had the car for a little while and it was no longer new.
 
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