Stupid things you thought/did as a little kid.

[Medlight 17]

1. Believing a monster lived under the stairs and would come out in the dark. Therefore - if I was the last one up - I would flick the switch at the bottom of the stairs and ran as hard as I could to the top or it would come out and grab me.

 

2. I'm very clumsy and kept tripping and falling over things. Dad said "look at the ground when you walk and you'll stop falling". It worked, but I just ended up walking into things like walls, lampposts and other people instead. Dad had a facepalm moment.

 

3. Not me but a friend of mine. We were about 12 and there were three of us going out ridding on a bikes in the countryside - except one of my friends was going sooo slow. So me and my other friend tried to figure out why he was so slow. Turns out he had never ridden a bike before with gears - and therefore was ridding at the lowest gear possible everywhere. We pointed this out to him to which he replies "But that just makes it harder to pedal..." 

[Lexamena 391]

I used to think that watching food in the microwave would ruin my eyes. Long time ago. 

[sparkleshine100 92]

I remember once I was jumping on my trampoline singing the lazy town theme tune at the top of my voice. it was really embarrassing when my neighbour called over the fence "could you ask your dad if your sister can come round and play."

 

oh and the time that I swung on a goalpost and cracked my head open.

 

and i'll never forget the time when my sister and I threw all the cushions and blankets down the stairs and had a competition to see who could do the coolest jump. didn't end well.

[GuyNamedEarl 1,332]

I drank Ajax powder because I thought it was Kool-Aid mix

[Tinkh_ 239]

I used to think that ghosts who did bad things were chained to automatic doors, opening and closing them.

[CosmicHooves 2,705]

I used to believe that America was the world power.

But then I learned about the existence of other countries... i was so stupid.

[Iridescent Quill 70]

I remember licking the tv screen as a kid. Why or how I thought to do this I have no idea. I remember it felt static-y (back before tvs were flat screens and instead were super bulky and heavy)

[~Sassy Dashie~ 712]

Well...I used to think my grandmas actual name was "Grammie" X3

 

And when my brother (Same age as me) told me that sticking up your middle finger was bad, I went around doing it to everyone cause I didn't believe him.

 

Oops.

[Guest]

Stupid stuff. I was just dumb back then. I did a lot of stupid stuff as a kid, but hey that's what kids do.

[Normano 3]

Just felt like I did something really stupid a little while ago. Why does everyone avoid me? I hate my life.

[maydrock 14]

So when I was little I loved watching black and white movies still do well I thought the movies were B&W because color had not been invented for the world yet and it was real life

[DeadAccount 4,604]

I was so clumsy that I tripped on my own feet. Oh wait, I still do that xD

[powerpuff-tsubasa 448]

i dream of being in a video game fighting monsters as a kid

[Emiko Gale 199]

I used to think it was possible to be sucked down a bath drain.

 

And I really hated the show Codename Kids Next Door as a kid because that show made me think that being a 13 year old meant being a adult...Turns out I acted just as much as a kid as a 13 year old as a did before...Maybe more.

 

Edit: I also tried to send a message using the wind like in the Winnie the Pooh Christmas Special...Then I realized it didn't work and ran back for my drawing...And hit my head on a street lamp.

Edited May 19, 2016 by Emiko Gale

[Dream Solstice 25]

I used to think because bees made honey, that wasps made syrup.

[IsraelYabuki 446]

When I was just a kid, I thought I could for once walk home at the age of 8. It was a big mistake because I had to face oncoming traffic even thoughI looked both way before crossing the street. I wasn't thinking straight, because I was in a rush to grow up fast. Now that I'm older, if I have kids, I'll make sure they don't make the same mistake I did.

[King 5,625]

My grandparents used to tell me that their old car had wings to allow it to fly over pot holes and such...I totally believed them. In addition to that, I used to be very superstitious as a kid. Things like 'step on a crack, you break your mothers back", so Id never step on cracks in the pavement.

[Dream Solstice 25]

Another thing I did was jump off the stairs and try to fly! 

[Sporemane 546]

I once poured a glass of cooking oil in a cup thinking it was apple juice. It tasted really bad!

[gamecubeguy214 2,512]

After all the fairy tales I've seen, a long time ago I thought that a kiss on the lips would revive a dead person, but it's literally nothing but lip to lip contact, love can't revive a person, because love is something in the brain. And their brain isn't working anymore. But hey, it's good for fiction unless it's cliche, I don't remember seeing it a lot in any sort of media lately.

[That Guy with the CMB 5,873]

Ran up the stairs as a kid and never liked basements because of ghost videos. They've made me scared of basements my whole life even though ghosts rarely were in basements in said videos. Anyhow, I always got up the stairs as fast as my little legs would carry me. Ye.

I used to think it was possible to be sucked down a bath drain.

 

And I really hated the show Codename Kids Next Door as a kid because that show made me think that being a 13 year old meant being a adult...Turns out I acted just as much as a kid as a 13 year old as a did before...Maybe more.

 

Edit: I also tried to send a message using the wind like in the Winnie the Pooh Christmas Special...Then I realized it didn't work and ran back for my drawing...And hit my head on a street lamp.

 

Sounds like you were adorable as a child. c:

[Dreambiscuit 9,691]

I used to not believe in Santa Claus, but now I've grown up and know better. 

[cmarston1 5,959]

When I was very little, I though Australia was a part of the United States and wasn't its own country.

[Steel Accord 6,660]

Well I don't like to say "stupid things one thought as a kid" because it's not stupid. You're a kid then, you don't have the full picture yet.

 

Uhhh this is actually harder to answer than I thought because not a lot of what I've believed as a kid has gone away. It's changed, evolved certainly, but I still think a lot of the same things I did in adolescence.

 

I mean I guess if I were to nit pick I was terrified of vampires as a kid. That they would come and bite me and suck me dry as I slept.

 

Otherwise my parents really didn't tell me a lot of lies. I mean when I asked if Santa was real, they didn't deflect, they just answered with "what he means is real." Which sort of allowed me to still believe into my adult years the spirit what's really important.

 

Oh! You know what? There was something. There was this time when my brother and I were watching Rugrats and there was this episode when the parents were fixing their pilot light, which they heard as "pirate light" and meant it as a light that keeps pirates away. For a short time, I actually thought that's what it really meant.

[Poly Lingua 37]

One time I briefly ran away because I wanted to by this pokemon plush toy but I didn't have enough money, and instead my younger sister ended up buying it for herself to spite me.

 

Or often I would spend hours in the bathtub/shower mixing all the soaps and shampoos together hoping for some kind of chemical reaction.

 

But.... I think one of the dumbest things I did as a kid was I had these magnetix with the silver, metal balls. I would unscrew the lightbulb from my nightlight with it plugged in and drop the ball in it because it would make pretty sparks and make the power go out, which I happened to think was the coolest thing ever. My parents would always get confused about the power going out and then they'd hit the switches on the breaker in the garage... I don't think they ever figured out what I was doing till years later I grew up and I told them about it. Thank goodness the house never caught on fire or I was electrocuted... Actually, scratch that last one, I also would stick my finger in the nightlight to feel the shock, but I don't think it was that strong. Woops.