I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.
I thought that when the clerk at the checkout asked, “would you like cash back?” That you could say yes and they would just give you cash straight out of the register for nothing lol.
I figured that most people were very honest and didn’t need the money, so they would just say no thanks and leave it in the register for somebody who really did need it.
Similarly, I thought one could get more money by asking for change. You give one bill, you get more bills and coins in return, it’s gotta be more, right?
So many things…
I didn’t understand how lie detectors were supposed to work so I thought you could hook someone up and ask something like “does god exist” and you’d be able to get answers to all of life’s big mysteries.
I thought there was a left and right sock
I thought wolverines were mythical creatures
I thought if I tried hard enough I could somehow become older than my older brother like it was just a title or something
Thanks to DARE any time I saw a skittle with the S missing I thought it was drugs even in a newly opened package
I could go on…
I wanted an older sibling as a child and I remember trying to convince my parents they should have another baby. In my mind, if I just waited (my age +1) years, I’d then have an older sibling. It never ocurred to me that I would also age during that time…
I’m surprised an older sibling was something you wanted, usually you want to be the oldest.
I was an only child and I just wanted someone cool to play with me who I could look up to. Also all my older cousins picked on me and I wanted defence lol
In my case I just wanted a friend lmao
Your comment about your brother reminds me that in kindergarten I thought that the line order (alphabetical) had something to do with status. My last name starts with C so I was pretty close to the front, but I had a friend with an A for a last name, so I really wanted to move up.
I told no one of this of course until long after I’d grasped how alphabetical ordering worked myself.
My son was PISSED when I explained how his older sister would, in fact, always be older. He was sure he’d catch up.
You can buy socks that have a left and right, but most don’t.
For example for sport and hiking. Those have support structures that need to work differently for the side they are worn on.
And some brands (Polo) put a logo on alternating sides.
I thought CEOs worked super hard
Some do, but many don’t. Especially the top ones.
I remember thinking that women gave birth to girls and men gave birth to boys, and being really worried because I (as a guy) didn’t want to give birth.
I’m seeing several posts that are startling evidence for the essential nature of proper sex education, lol.
Well, this was when I was like 6 or so; I can’t fault the school system.
Slightly related: all dogs are bots and all cats are girls
all dogs are bots
That’s birds.
No silly, birds aren’t real /hj
/hj?
Half-joke (see here)
I imagined something completely different.
My dad told me that walnuts were owl eggs.
He got in trouble when I stole all the walnuts in the house and wrapped them in nose tissues to keep them warm so they would hatch and I would have baby owls.
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 10•2 years ago
Haha this is such a funny lie.
That adult humans knew what they were doing and had things in hand.
I turn 40 in March and still have no idea what I’m doing. I just make it up as I go.
I believed until I was 8 or so that beans were a type of meat. When I learned the truth, I had an argument with my older brother with me saying something along the line, “You’re gonna feel real dumb when Mom says I’m right.”
I’ll admit to thinking this too
and beingwhen I was a little bit older than 8, so you can feel better now.
The USA was the good guys.
Compared to the alternative, I’ll take the US as an ally, thank you very much.
Sounds like you benefit from the exploitation of the masses you sicko.
Sounds like you don’t live in the real world.
I don’t live in the US, if that’s what you mean by the real world.
If I might ask where do you live?
No me neither.
Depends who you ask really. They’re certainly the good guys if you’re being invaded by Russia.
So long ago now.
I’m pretty sure that is still going on.
I thought cats were female and dogs were male. Can you tell I didn’t have pets growing up?
I know a disturbingly high number of adults over 40 that refer to every dog as he/him and every cat as she/her no matter how many thousands of times they are corrected on it.
Have you been around girls and boys. This makes perfect sense. I think the science might be wrong.
I still say this but I know it isn’t true.
Being a hard worker gets you places.
NSFW warning. I thought sex had to be anal. Just by the looks, it was impossible that a penis could pass through a vulva, and poop made it evident that it could pass through the rectum.
OP, that thing you used to believe is disturbing as fuck.
Somehow I learned about sex before vaginas and thought sex had to be with butts because everyone had a penis. 🤣
That your tongue is divided into segments which each can only taste certain flavors
Tbf, schools did a terrible job of that by giving us all those diagrams with the different sections of taste buds highlighted on the tongue.
It makes sense that a child would see that and understand it as there being different taste sections, especially because they usually (IIRC) had bitter on both sides.
It wasn’t just children understanding it that way the teachers also believed it.
Wait… it’s not?? Then why do I taste bitter only on the back of my tongue?
They taught us this one at school for some reason. Never fell for it though because have you ever had food?
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 28•2 years ago
If you were cold then you would catch a cold.
You had to wait an hour after eating because if you swam after eating then you would sink.
Carrots will allow me to see in the dark if I eat enough of them.
If you did a bad thing then the universe would make a bad thing happen to you.
If you dropped food on the ground and picked it up quick enough it didn’t have germs.
Carrots will allow me to see in the dark if I eat enough of them.
This was (and is) a very successful British WWII misinformation campaign. The Brits didn’t want it known that their aircraft had radar - which allowed them to find enemy aircraft at night. So they embellished carrots’ benefit on night vision to cover up their technological advantage.
It worked. Don’t feel bad for believing it. Everyone believed it.
If you were cold then you would catch a cold.
There is a startling amount of people here (most people I know) that believe this. I work in healthcare and we constantly have arguments about the AC in summer for that exact reason. Yeah cold weather can make it easier to catch a cold but it’s interesting to see how many people believe that you need to get warm to avoid catching a cold.
Carrots will allow me to see in the dark if I eat enough of them.
Partially true. If you’re vitamin A deficient, your night vision worsens and carrots can help with that. But you won’t get Minecraft night vision
The carrot thing came out of world war ii propaganda which was intended to keep radar gunsites secret.
Believing in karma isn’t bad, though. If it helps being a better person, then why not.
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 2•2 years ago
It didn’t help me be better at that age because I lacked the forward thinking ability to weighthe consequences. It did make me scared that something bad was going to happen after I’d done something bad. Which is kind of good I guess.
99% of Indians still believe the first one. They also believe that if you don’t immediately dry your hair right after a shower you’ll catch a cold. Sneezing and coughing without covering your mouth though? That’s ok.
The world believed carrots made you have better vision. It is an interesting story and worth looking into.
That an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent being created all of existence, knew everything that would ever happen and everything its creations would ever do, but still either doomed to damnation or lifted up to paradise each one of them as a result of them doing exactly what they’d been programmed to do
Adults act mature and rationally