As kids we’ve all held some pretty illogical misconceptions at some point or another. For example, as a child I thought that:
- Congress was a person. I’d be watching the news as a little boy and hear them talking about how congress just did this or just did that and I’d always be wondering who this congress guy was, how he managed to get so much done, and how he had managed to live for so long.
- That when you had life insurance that meant that you would get brought back to life if you died.
So what crazy things did you believe were true as a child?
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
I used to believe that the moon was God’s flashlight lol. granted I thought it up on my own. I just looked at it and just started believing that, that’s what it was and its how he watched us lol. Not as a religious thing… its just what I believed.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:53 pm
i literal taught that you couldn’t drink anything and drive.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I can’t think of any of mine.. I’ll have to ask my parents.. I remember tho that my little brother used to believe that he only grew on his birthday at the exact time he was born.. So every birthday at 6p.m. (That’s what time he’d been born) he would measure himself. It was pretty cute and funny!
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:41 pm
I believed if you swallowed seeds from a watermelon that watermelons would grow in your stomach.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:21 pm
That periods automatically stopped at night to let us enjoy a good night sleep…
What a disappointment.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:32 pm
After watching E.T. in the movie theater I was convinced that he rode home with us on the top of our car.
And the second was every night I was convinced that a witch would come in my room and take me. So my ritual was to put my arms and legs in the air and pretend to be a statue. Because clearly if the witch saw a statue in my bed she would leave it alone. I would do that until I fell asleep.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:34 pm
That if I swallow gum,it will stick to my gut and other internal organs..
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:35 pm
When I was little my older brother and sister told me that thunder was caused by clouds banging together. They also told me that chewing whole peppercorns would give me dimples.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:41 pm
When my older brother went to college I believed that college was an island somewhere!
I thought that if I got bar soap in my hair instead shampoo my hair would fall out.
I thought that the octane on gas like 89 or 93 etc. was the year the gas was made. Vintage gas!
Also I thought that if I stood really still then no one could see me.
I’m sure there are others I can’t think of them though.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:32 pm
I used to believe that a magical cleaning elf would come into our living room at 2:00am every night and pick up all my toys off the floor.
Then eat everything on the diningroom table, & tidy everything up.
I then realized my parents cleaned up after I went to bed.
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:24 pm
You might have to be Catholic to get this, but during church they used to hold up the bread and then the wine while blessing them and ring these little bells. I know now that the altar server was ringing the bells but you couldn’t see them from where we sat. So for a long time I thought God was making the bell ringing sound to signal that the communion bread and wine were ready.
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:30 pm
i once told my brother that dracula was our many times great uncle. he believed me for 2 years!
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:36 pm
I was absolutely convinced that when you drove over a bridge, you didn’t drive on the roadway but had to go up on the parts with the wires that hold the roadway up. I would curl up in a ball on the floor of the backseat and beg my grandfather to let me know when we were over the bridge. I love looking at suspension bridges now and going, “Wow, I was totally retarded!” LOL..awesome question!
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:15 pm
seriously? until I was 14..that babies came out of the butt, and that they really did grow in your stomach..I was under the impression that “uterus” was another word for stomach…big dunts cap on my head to solidfy my stupidity?..I didn’t know I had a “hole” in my vagina…I thought there was just the little pee tube thingy, never knew there was even an area for something to go in, or out..hence me thinking babies came out of your butt….I was also under the impression that there was only a stomach (age 10) and that your food turned to pee, or poop, in your stomach and came out of your butt. this came to fruitation when I asked my mom how a woman would keep from pooping when she had a baby; it also came to fruitation when I asked how the baby did not get covered in yucky waste when growing in your stomach. oooh..due to this thought process, I also thought that when they showed the sex scenes in sex ed..that the male figure did not actually enter the woman figure, but instead slid against it. which really caused some confusion with how someone got pregnant in the first place, I not only thought women could not have a baby till married, (like in literal terms, like a force field around a woman..there bodies just could not develop a baby till they got married) but I thought it was against the law,
I didn’t have to worry about God until I died (Of course with my religion, it would be to late by that point
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and that boys could be fire fighters, astronauts, president, police men, etc, and women could not be..not something my parents or anyone else taught me, just something I thought..imagine my surprise when my aunt came in after she signed up for the police force. (age 5)
at 18 all woman got married, it was just what you had to do at 18. Interracial marriages were against the law..again I promise not something that any member or friend of family taught me..just something I thought on my own.(5 or 6 I think) ( I very much know and believe differently now)
um, I’m sure I could think of a hundred others
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:35 pm
When I was in like elementary school, whenever I’d go to birthday parties my mom would always tell me “don’t drink”, not because there would be alcohol there, but I don’t know why she did it actually haha, but she always did. And I always thought she meant that I wasn’t allowed to have anything to drink, like a cup of soda or juice or something LOL! I thought that because once when I was little my mom gave me a whole lecture on “date rape” and leaving your glass unattended so bad people could put bad things in it so you wouldn’t know what was happening and they would do bad things to you, I was like 8 lol, I didn’t understand who at my friends birthday parties would want to put things in my drinks, but I was always very careful because of that! Haha!
EDIT- I also thought that a woman would get pregnant by looking out her window at night and wishing on a star and say “I want a baby girl/boy” and then she would be pregnant. I also thought that the only reason women had husbands was so that they could hold the womans hand while she had the baby, not that he was actually NEEDED to make the baby, or love or any of that! Just to hold the woman’s hand and that was his only job! Lol!
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:05 pm
I thought that ‘gunpoint’ was a place. Like on the news, I would hear that _______ was held at gunpoint, and I thought that gunpoint was a place for bad people!! LOL…
I also thought that chocolate milk came from brown cows…
That a quarter of an hour is 25 minutes…
And possibly the worst thing, I thought that life was EXACTLY like T.V… boy, I was SO wrong
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:58 pm
My mom use to tell me that the silverware got up at night and danced, now why I believed it I do not know, or why she would say that, but I REALLY wanted to catch them, of course I never did LOL
She also told me that if I ate my crust I would grow up to look like Cinderella, so I ate ALL my crust LOL
She had a great sense of humor and was a lot of fun!
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:16 pm
When I was around 4, my brother and i used to play a game called “Duck”. Every time we passed under a bridge you had to shout “duck” or you would go bald. I was convinced for ages that I would go bald if I didn’t say it.
I thought that when people died and went to heaven they became represented by a star and you could still talk to the person via their star.
I always thought the tooth-fairy left you a note if you were a good girl with really clean teeth. I was completely oblivious to the similarities between the fairy’s and my mam’s handwriting.
If you ate your dinner you would actually grow, then and there.
I believed that babies had their own secret language. I watched too much Rugrats. I also thought that dogs could read minds.
I thought Ireland had a king and queen, which it doesn’t.
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I thought that my parents loved me unconditionally and would support me in becoming myself and that they would be in my life for as long as we all lived
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:54 pm
When I was a kid, I believed that when I left my room, all of my dolls and Barbie dolls would come to life and just live a life in my room. So I would leave my dolls on the floor when I left my room and I’d walk outside, close my door, and quickly open it again to try and catch them. Quite fun! Until I realized..lol
I also thought that I could jump into my TV and become a character in whatever show I was watching. I literally tried to jump in and I bruised my head a few times. haha
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:58 pm
I used to believe that lighting and thunderstorms were angels bowling. That’s what my mom told me when I was young so I wouldn’t be afraid any more. Also I used to live in California when I was lil. So when I was really little (4yo) I remember sitting on the couch with my lil brother watching cartoons. I rememeber how REALLY quiet it was, no birds or sounds. Then we had an earthquake! My first one ever! From that point on for a few years I believed that any time it was SUPER quiet there would be another earthquake, so I would make noise, talk out loud, etc. just so there wouldn’t be another earthquake! haha!
November 24th, 2009 at 12:04 am
i thought that spaghetti noodles were worms in diguise!!!! my brother thought that good luck charms were peices of candy corn dont nkwo were he got it from!! LOL
November 24th, 2009 at 1:03 am
LOL! i am 14, but when i was around 5 or 6, i thought:
-where people live was under the earth’s surface
-when you fly somewhere else you go to another planet
and i bet i have tons more but that’s all i can think of for now!
November 24th, 2009 at 1:41 am
I USE TO BELIEVE THAT WHEN IT RAINED, GOD WAS CRYING BECAUSE HE WAS LOSING AT BOWLING. THE LIGHTENING WAS “GUTTER-BALL” AND THUNDER WAS “STRIKE”
I ALSO USE TO BELIEVE IN THE TOOTH FAIRY, SANTA, EASTER BUNNY, LEPRECHAUN, CUPID, COOCUY (MEXICAN BOOGIE MAN), AND MOTHER GOOSE.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:17 am
I used to believe that there was a witch under my bed and if my blanket fell on the floor during the night, the witch would take it and never give it back. I had to always make sure a was tucked in tights so that my blanket would never fall of.
November 24th, 2009 at 3:09 am
-My brother told me there was a kid that was 1/2 black and 1/2 white in his class so I literally spent the whole year looking for the kid with 1/2 his face white and the other 1/2 black.
-I couldn’t figure out if ground beef was a vegetable or meat, because beef is a meat, but if it comes from the ground it’s a vegetable, right?
-My dear brother also told me the board of education was a thick paddle that the principal had in the office and if I ever got sent there I was gonna get a whippin’!
November 24th, 2009 at 3:22 am
-when my cousins baby died (i was like what? 5 or 6 years old) She said that god is taking care of the baby. When i was like 10 i figured out what she mean’t so all that time when i never got to meet him (the baby) i though god was baby sitting the baby
and that if you drank chocolate milk your skin would turn brown
November 24th, 2009 at 3:37 am
When I was little my dad told me if you breathed through the phone the other person could feel it. But the funny thing is I believed him until I was 13. LOL.Guess it never dawned on me until I actually tried it!
November 24th, 2009 at 4:01 am
Haha I love this question (:
I used to think that when people moved, they traded houses, my stuffed animals would talk to each other, but I couldn’t hear them, and that animals would run off and have meetings when they ran away.
Then my brother told me that if you stood still for a long time without blinking, you’d turn into a statue.
November 24th, 2009 at 4:52 am
i thought that months were weeks, and years were months LOL
i also thought that my parents bed was a magic carpet and it took the whole city with it places it would go (thanks to my dad lol)
November 24th, 2009 at 5:16 am
love the q.
my sibs insisted i was an alien cause i have an outtie belly button and different hair from them though my mom promised and promised, i didn’t believe i was human until the DOCTOR promised i was fully 100% not an alien…or am i? hahaaa
i used to think santa came down the chimney because a ladder wouldn’t fit in his sleigh.
that rudolph invented electricity.
and once my mother told me, god only knows why, that if i rub my tummy and pat my head at the same time ill live foreverrr and everrr.
November 24th, 2009 at 5:49 am
i was scared on christmas eve because i thought santa had to break in lol we dint have a chimny
November 24th, 2009 at 6:26 am
i was told that when the ice cream man’s van played his tune then he had run out of ice cream…. worked until i was about 10 lol
November 24th, 2009 at 7:14 am
lol – I love the congress story!
The only one I can remember is that brown cows gave chocolate milk.
November 24th, 2009 at 7:37 am
I think someone else already posted this but I used to think that gunpoint was a place. Like if on the news they’d say “the hostages were held at gunpoint”. I used to wonder why people would still go there if it was such a bad place.
And I used to believe that if I couldn’t see someone, they couldn’t see me. I could just stand in the middle of the room and cover my eyes, and nobody would see me. I lost many games of Hide and Seek that way.
November 24th, 2009 at 8:12 am
When on sodas and drinks it says “drink best by (whatever date),” I thought that the drink would have some kind of amazing taste on that exact date. So I took three Mountain Dews and hid them in the back of the fridge to see what would happen. Eventually, someone drank the sodas and I learned about how the expiration dates work. lol.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:08 am
this is a nice question.
i used to think that if swallowed apple seeds, you would grow an apple tree in ur body. i would cry like crazy when my parents would tease me.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:43 am
1. That you could get pregnant from kissing. Haha.
2. That my brother could shrink me and my friend with his magic wand.
Wow that was hilarious.
3. That characters in video games were somehow conected to the real
life person they portrayed so whenever you killed them or crashed
them itreally happened to them in real life. =]]
4. That the tree in my grandmas backyard had a face and could talk.
Lmao.
5. Kissing was sex lol.
Theres probably a bunch of others that i forgot. I was a really gulible kid haha.