When I was a kid I thought the quarter machines at the laundromat literally transmuted your dollar bills into quarters. What’s something silly you believed as a kid?
- magnetosphere ( @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org ) English14•1 year ago
I believed I was destined to become a bully. There were two older boys in the neighborhood who were jerks, and they were my “evidence”. I expected to turn out like them, because I thought being mean to little kids was just part of growing up.
Fortunately, I got really upset about it one day and talked to mom. I told her I didn’t want to grow up and be a teenager. I didn’t want to bully little kids. She reassured me that it didn’t work the way I thought it did.
- mermaldad ( @mermaldad@beehaw.org ) English13•1 year ago
When I was about four years old, a tornado passed through our town. I remember huddling in the hallway with my family and hearing, “This is a tornado warning” on the radio. I thought a tornado warning was a warning to the tornado not to come through town.
- axibzllmbo ( @axibzllmbo@beehaw.org ) English13•1 year ago
When I was 10 I thought Elton John was singing goodbye aubergine instead of goodbye Norma Jeane. To this very day I have great difficulty in understanding song lyrics :/
- aperson ( @aperson@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
Oh, draw me closer Tony Danza.
- Digester ( @Digester@beehaw.org ) English11•1 year ago
When I was in my first year of elementary I believed, for whatever reason, the teachers lived at the school. I found out they didn’t when we had to answer questions about our hobbies and my teacher mentioned her house in the conversation. In that moment it clicked and I will never forget that day.
- Gumby ( @Gumby@beehaw.org ) English10•1 year ago
When I was little I thought girls had penises (I am male). In High School, I was very confused about reproduction and how it could work. The great part of living in a red state that does not believe in sex education. I was in college before I learned that women do not have a penis.
- IcedCoffeeBitch ( @IcedCoffeeBitch@beehaw.org ) English15•1 year ago
As a kid, I thought women had a penis. As a teen, I thought none did.
As an adult, now I know some women have one.
- gloombert the fluffy ( @gloombert@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
i thought girls just peed out of their butts… and i dont think ANY girls do that, haha
- PelicanPersuader ( @PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
As a kid, I tried very hard to figure out which part of my clitorus the pee came out of. Took a good while to figure out that it didn’t.
- ButterBiscuits ( @ButterBiscuits@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Look, male, female, or otherwise, we’ve all peed out our butts at one point or another. And it’s never fun.
- aperson ( @aperson@beehaw.org ) English10•1 year ago
I thought eggs were a dairy product because they were sold in the milk aisle and were also white.
- mermaldad ( @mermaldad@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Not an unreasonable belief, since eggs are often displayed under a huge sign that says “dairy”.
- pinkjangmi ( @pinkjangmi@beehaw.org ) English9•1 year ago
Not me, but this is something cute my mom told me that I’ve never forgotten–
When my mom was a little girl, she thought once you got into the car to go somewhere, the car itself didn’t move, but the landscape (trees, etc) moved instead, lol.
- Bumblefumble ( @Bumblefumble@beehaw.org ) English7•1 year ago
At the end of the day, what is the difference really? Like, from a certain point of view she’s correct.
- notsocrazy ( @notsocrazy@beehaw.org ) English9•1 year ago
I thought that when a plane broke the sound barrier it was a part that broke on the plane that they had to fix everytime they landed.
- mermaldad ( @mermaldad@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
The sad part is that the phrase “broke the sound barrier”, while common, is wrong. There is no sound barrier. There is an increase in drag around Mach 1. There is flutter, which can be destructive, but flutter can occur at any speed.
Unfortunately some early airplane designs failed near Mach 1, someone hypothesized a barrier, and the concept stuck around long after it was disproven.
- Dixiewalker ( @Dixiewalker108@beehaw.org ) English8•1 year ago
There were a few (I was just a kid, after all)! And I’m embarrassed to admit this lasted until I was 11 or 12. I thought dying only happened painlessly in your sleep overnight, and only an unlucky few died in a hospital or accident or while suffering.
I thought everybody just went to whatever church was nearest to their house.
I thought only guys could fart.
- Jennatek ( @Jennatek@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
When I was a small child, I thought I had bionic parts, because I overheard my mum telling someone that during my birth they used ‘false hips’. It was years later I discovered what ‘forceps’ were.
- Parsnip8904 ( @Parsnip8904@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
I’m glad you didn’t try to prove you were bionic.
- frost ( @frost@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
To my perfectly logical child brain, regular milk came from white cows with black spots, and chocolate milk came from white cows with brown spots!
- emma ( @emma@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Mine is like that too :)
The milkman brought kids’ milk (whole fat) in black and white containers and grown-ups’ milk (low fat) in red and white containers and that matched up with the black and white and red and white cows I’d seen. For a special treat we occasionally got chocolate milk, which of course came in a brown container. So when I finally saw a field of brown cows I supposed they were the rare and precious source of chocolate milk :)
My mother confirmed that this was indeed the case.
Then one day I was in the dairy store with my grandmother and there were containers of things like sour cream in pink and white and neon green and white containers and I KNEW cows didn’t come in those colors…
- yenahmik ( @yenahmik@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
I thought movies were real and they just literally followed people around with a camera for the events in movies. Of course, animated movies were a little difficult to resolve with this logic. So, I just figured there was an alternate universe where everything was animated and that’s where they came from.
- ReMikeAble ( @ReMikeAble@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Who Framed Roger Rabbit must have been a tricky watch for you :)
- yenahmik ( @yenahmik@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Not going to lie. As I was writing my response, I was thinking Who Framed Roger Rabbit might have been involved in my forming of this belief.
- slaytswiftfan ( @gaytswiftfan@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
I knew the earth rotated, and I knew clouds moved, so I thought clouds were static and only appeared to be moving because the earth was rotating. I remember telling my sister that and my grandmother told it’s not true and I was soooo embarrassed
- TheTrueLinuxDev ( @TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
When I was really young, I naively believed that nobody ever die and that if they go to the hospital, they’ll come out all fine, just a bit older. It only took me to watch James Bond movie with my father to shatter that nativity when I realize that people can actually die.
- PelicanPersuader ( @PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
I never moved house as a young child, so I believed that when you wanted to move, you had to go find someone else who wanted to trade houses with you. It seemed like a very difficult process to find a person whose house you wanted but they also wanted yours.