Stupid things you assumed as a kid?

[Blue Moon 6,341]

- I thought that that women just got pregnant randomly (sort of like getting sick, but getting pregnant instead), and the man had nothing to do with it, and was useless in that sense. I thought women didn't need a man to get pregnant.

 

- Due to my own religion, and the fact that all the people around me shared that religion; I thought that everyone in the world was Christian. 

 

- I thought a Flea Market was a place that sold fleas.

 

- I thought was My Little Pony was only for girls.

 

- I thought I had to like "rock 'n roll" and listening to female singers was for girls only.

 

- I thought only the male characters in a show could be my favorite, and I wasn't allowed to have female characters as my favorite because they were for girls only.

 

- I thought Santa Claus, Leprechauns, and the Easter Bunny were real.

[CinemaBrony 1,276]

I at some point believed that real life in the past looked and sounded exactly like it does in old movies. You know, like as if real life was either black-and-white or in Technicolor during it's primal years, and as well as sounded like the audio provided by those older sounds systems (Westrex, RCA Photophone, Vitaphone) that were used before Dolby Stereo was invented. Something like that.

[ChoroChii 284]

I used to believe that people were born with braces or something. ;u;

 

Probably believed a lot of stupid things when I was a kid, like, I know I did but that's on the top of my mind right now.. xD

[Dsanders 5,747]

I used to believe in Santa Claus and I always used to dream of one day coming to the north pole and visiting his winter toy workshop. So much for that. lol

 

I used to believe in Mother Nature as being an independent entity who actually possesses control over all nature. 

 

I used to believe that the moon was made out of cheese. :3

 

I used to believe that toys could talk and communicate with one another whenever no one is around.(damn you Toy Story movies.)

 

I used to believe in ghosts, and monsters.

 

I also used to believe that I could talk to cats telepathically. :3

 

 

Yeah... I was very a very strange child.

[Sweet Dreams 1,893]

My dad used to travel a lot for work and he'd often go to Townsville. When I was little, he'd tell me he was gonna meet the Powerpuff Girls, and I believed it.

I thought the Flea market was ridden with fleas.

I thought boys had cooties.

I thought when you ate a seed of some fruit, it'd grow in your stomach

I thought Santa Clause, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, etc were real

[Starshine 16,334]

Back then... I thought that the world was made of creamy patty substance that's cooled down with a huge electric fan from the heaven, and during hot days we all melt down to sweats :s

 

Even then I was good enough to know that cartoons and films aren't real, but for some reason I believed that Western countries are massive sitcoms where everyone is acting weird all the time. Foals are so stupid XD

[Moaning Myrtle 196]

Oh god...My baby story on "how babys grow."

 

So,I believed that if a girl and a guy loved eachother they would hold hands and the sweat glands would sink into the skin and make a baby.

[HunterTSN 1,444]

When I was a little boy I though that acting like an idiot meant that you were really cool and everyone would think you were funny.

 

Then I realized I was an idiot.

Edited October 7, 2013 by TheSteampunkNinja (TSN)

[Moved to Elsewhere 11,331]

Okay I've got two more things I remembered I assumed

I thought my Dad could put his car on auto pilot because he told me when in reality he had his leg at the steering wheel'

I thought people who worked night shifts were called nocturnal people and always were awake at night and slept during the day

[NocturnalRainbow 248]

I used to think that clouds, rainbows, and stuff where made in a factory up in the sky...

 

*Que Rainbow Factory*

 

OH SH*T 

 

*Runs away at top speed*

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,682]

Hmm...A lot of things I think, but I cannot remember most of it. Most of the obvious stuff, fairytales, Santa, any kind of religious deity, I thought all of those were real in some form or another. I also thought that doing good truly rewards good and doing bad does the exact opposite. Not so much in reality. I also assumed that life had some grand purpose, but now in my opinion, meh, it doesn't. Still, I try to enjoy it regardless.

 

Lets see..I also thought that all spider bites were basically fatal. I was bitten by a house spider when I was younger and that terrified me. Cried for hours. I also feared the same thing with any meat that had red in it, I ate a steak like that and freaked out afterwards, thinking it would kill me. Those were the days, I think.

[SkyStorm 334]

When my parents told me we were going on a ferry to some island, I thought they meant a fairy and I got all excited that a fairy would come, and take us or something (remember, I am a girl, and I liked that stuff when I was younger)

When I found out the ferries were NOT fairies, I thought that it must be a flying boat or something because of the name

 

Another thing is, I thought that the man on the moon was eating the moon (since the light from the sun makes the moon look like its getting smaller/bigger depending) eventually on a new moon, I began crying, my parents asked me what's wrong and I said the man on the moon ate the entire moon. When the moon began coming back, I thought he was vomiting it out because it was too much to eat

Edited October 7, 2013 by SkyStorm

[CornBreadGang 514]

I assume that the tie on the Colonel from KFC was his body, and that he was a stick figure... I was a dumb little boy... :/

Plus, I assumed that time WAS a strict progression of cause to effect. (Doctor Who fans will know what I mean.)

[StarSweeper 13]

I used to think that if you broke your arm your whole arm came off! I thought that if people kissed the when would become pregnant he he he I was random

[Vinyl Scratch. 604]

When I was a filly I thought that you could Buy "cutting" lasers that could cut the moon in half and I would always ask my dad for one and he use to play along and say that it was to expensive, I was such an idiot

[Virulence 254]

Well there is this store called: Three Day Blinds, and as a filly I thought they would actually, literally make you blind... for three days.

[decoherence 183]

I remembered another. There were some mean older kids at a camp I used to go to who kept telling me I was going to die whenever I did something. "Oh, you let an ant crawl on you? You're going to die!" "You sat on the toilet? You're going to die!" "You looked at the nozzle of the fire extinguisher? You're going to DIE!"

 

And gullible little me believed them.

 

Sigh. Speaking of mean kids, I also used to get really, really upset if I saw kids hurting insects. When I was six or seven one kid half-squished this big, beautiful shiny blue beetle and it was sorta still alive (but its guts were hanging out the back) and so I 'put it out of its misery' then cried for the rest of the day. I still remember it clearly so I may have been traumatized.

 

I also used to wonder if I was really a boy because other boys kept calling me a girl (i guess i kinda looked like one when I was young) and yelling at me when I went in the boy's changeroom. To my credit, I just ignored them.

 

That kinda stuff was pretty typical of my childhood. I'm very happy to be an adult now. I can expect at least a certain level of decency and chew someone out when they don't show it (and how!)

 

Okay, pity party OFF    I'm gonna go put Gypsy Bard on repeat now.

[Luximus 482]

I thought a penny was worth buying anything I wanted...didn't really end well when I found out the truth. I was crying for like 10 min.

[Malinter 3,064]

Power Stations were weather factories. all that water vapour rising out of the cooling towers, they certainly still look it

[Red Diamond 549]

that aliens were real and would take over the universe

 

a tarantula was in my house and behind me when i was on the family computer

[roguesoul 85]

I used to think at night trees and other plants pulled up their roots and danced.

That fireflies were fallen stars.

Adults knew everything.

If you stayed to long in the tub you'd turn into a giant pink raisin.

Ponies were for little kids.

 How times have changed...

[The 2nd Mass 28]

I used to think MLP was stupid... Then I grew up and realized it was actually one of the best shows ever. It is probably tied with Doctor Who.

[GrauWitz 1,010]

That Samara Morgan would come out of my TV a week after watching "The Ring"

 

And also believing that Jeff the Killer and Slenderman existed

[Cactus 155]

I used to think "balance" was an actual thing that fell out of you, and you fell forward when you "lost your balance" because your body was instinctively trying to "catch" it.

 

I thought Canada wasn't part of the United States because they got mad and left. 

 

I thought everyone's fingers were shaped like mine, and that I wasn't abnormal. What a shock I got when people started getting disgusted every time I point at something. (Google 'Swan Neck' deformity, though I have it genetically, which is generally more mild.)

[GhostPony750 959]

That school would be the coolest thing ever. Meeting new friends and having a good time. Oh boy, was I horribly wrong about that...

Oh well, sorry about that. :/ But I hope you somehow enjoy your experience.

 

Why you changed "filly" to "kid"?

 

Anyway, as every kids, I thought my parents had infinite money. But I wasn't so materialist anyway, maybe a car or two sometimes. I never really believed in santa claus also. And I thought adults knew everything. But it seems I was wrong, my questions destroyed this lol.

Edited October 7, 2013 by GhostPony750