The Dumb Things We Believed As Children!

[CinemaBrony 1,276]

Let's share among ourselves some of the absurd, silly, or just random things we remember believing when we were kids! I'll start:

 

• I thought French fries originated from France.
• I thought I was allergic to the sun, since I'd often sneeze whenever looking straight up towards it.
• I recall at some point when I was six or seven saying that I didn't want to go to Heaven when I die, because Heaven was too high up in the sky and that I would possibly get vertigo. Thank goodness I wasn't totally familiar with Hell at the time.
• I thought slavery was still a prominent thing in Egypt (what a terrible idea for a cultural stereotype!)
• Up until I was eleven, I thought women's breasts were filled with hot air.
• and some of the usual stuff: Santa Clause, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, telekinesis, Sesame Street being a real place, etc.

 

I'll probably have a few more, but a lot of them seem to escape my mind at the moment.

 

Anypony else?

[Beta 42]

Hmm, yes!

 

I used to think that you could get sucked down the drain (much like a certain Rugrats episode). I thought babies actually were in your stomach for the longest time.

[Argos 191]

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Edited March 16, 2014 by Argos

[Night Shine 767]

As a child, I thought that the Mr. Rogers show was a TV show for adults and that I should therefore not watch it. Not quite sure how I came to that conclusion.

 

 

 

Hmm, yes!

 

I
used to think that you could get sucked down the drain (much like a
certain Rugrats episode). I thought babies actually were in your stomach
for the longest time.

 

RUGRATS. RUG FRIGGIN RATS. Just sayin', but that show was my childhood! 8D

Edited February 21, 2013 by Night Shine

[Fanglore 140]

ya i think the most absurd thing i believed in was that gravity was optional( you know like loonytoons). ya me and my bro jumped, fell, flew, and ran off thing so often that we should be dead.

 

 

 

I used to think that you could get sucked down the drain

 

 

for me it was the toilet 

[Sky Warden 2,243]

I like this kind of thread.

 

First of all, I thought seeds would grow in my stomach when I swallow them. LOL.

Second, I believed that trees can think and feel pain, but ignore it. Well, I still believe them till now, but with decent theories. Nerve system.

I thought God was an extra super duper big person far-far in the outer space. Seriously, what a shame.

The sun was turned off during the night.

 

I'm sure I have more, but my memory doesn't want to cooperate with me. I will edit it when I remember.

[Betez 1,734]

I thought, since maps were flat, that there was a back side to Earth that they didn't show.

 

I too thought French Fries were from France.

 

Man, I can't think of anything else right now.

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

I thought that helicopter's rotors spun so fast that they changed their shape into a large disc.

I thought the moon rotated with a equal rotational time to the earth, which is why it always had the same side facing the earth at night. (I didn't understand what Tidal Locking was until about two months ago, actually.)

Milk came from cows udders. No processing, no pasteurization, no filtering, not even being shipped from a truck or rail. Straight from the teat into the carton.

People who smoked were kind of dumb. Turns out they're not dumb, just addicted.

I thought that Russia, Northern Canada and Greenland were physically massive. Didn't learn about map projection until 5th grade.

 

When I was 14 I was afraid that it was possible I might urinate during ejaculation if I had sex. Good thing that's been cleared up, thanks biology class. (However I have learned that it doesn't prevent farting. No thanks, internet.)

[Pripyat Pony 2,608]

Lol, so many stupid things I believed in when I was a child. XD

 

 

* I thought that if you breathed when going past cemetaries, you'd die at midnight.

 

* I thought that if you swallowed chewing gum, it would stay in your body forever. Eventually, it would build up in your body and kill you.

 

* I thought that if you didn't jump over the top of the escalator, you'd be sucked inside and would never get out.

 

* I believed that a red mark on the wall of the girl's loo at school was where three teachers were murdered and that they were buried in the wall.

 

* I thought that, like in old films, the world used to be in black and white.

 

* I believed that watching TV in the dark would make me go blind.

 

* I believed that if the wind did change while I made a funny face, my face would really be stuck like that forever.

 

* I thought that sherbert and pop rocks had drugs in them. But it didn't stop me eating them. XD

[Leatherbehlt 465]

I used to think heaven and hell were right nexxt to eachother. Turns out they're actually across the street from each other.

I thought Japanese people came from Japanina.

I thought that taxes were paid to stop slavery.

I thought that the "disc could not be read" thing on the gamecube was a boo from Luigi's mansion taking over my gamecube. I was always scared shitless from those.

I thought My Little Pony was stupid.

I thought Samus was a guy.

I thought Pikacchu in SSBM was a girl.

I thought that the only drugs in the world were steroids and cigarrettes.

I thought that I was loved I was loved and tolerated.

[Azure Flames 303]

ceiling fan will chop off your hands if u put your up to if while it was spinning

stepping on a crack breaks your mother's back

the boogie man lives under my sisters bed (i like sleeping on the ground)

there were only man and women couples

Edited February 21, 2013 by AzureFlames

[Rainbow Dash Loyalty 1,275]

I thought:

• The Sun was the biggest planet, and thought I was smart :v
• Video games were based on true stories
• Fruit and vegetables give you super powers like Spiderman
• Ghosts and zombies take kids away when they are still awake past 10PM
• Canada was Canadia
• Anime shows were real

[Soundgarden 2,758]

There was this Swedish kid show I watched when I was, well, a kid. The protagonist invaded other peoples home by entering through their toilets, and ever since I first saw it, I was afraid of going to the toilet. 

[rcollinz13 428]

I used to think that whenever you needed money the bank would just give you free money. I also used to think that if you put money in an ATM in one city and then withdrew it from an ATM in another city it would be the exact same bills because underground tubes would carry it from one ATM to the other.

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

I used to think that pregnant women were simply fat. 

 

I also believed in the usual tooth fairy, easter bunny and santa claus. And I also thought that sesame street was a real place. 

[Dr. Eggnog 203]

I thought that volleyball was pronounced balley ball, and Shaquille O'Neal was a female figure skater.  All I can think of now.

[~Sugar Sprinkles~ 638]

I believed in so much.

 

Santa Claus, Easter bunny, toothfairy.

I believed in Monsters, or boogyman.

I believed i was gonna be sucked down the tub drain.

I believed the moon and sun was following us in the car.

I thought i had superpowers.

[Pinkazoid 3,493]

I never knew what breasts were, I always thought they were just milk sacks.

Yep, that's pretty much it

 

 

Oh god, that sounds even weirder when I read over it xD

[Despair 114]

The things I was told as a kid frightened me to no end.

 

- If you point at a rainbow, warts will grow on your finger.

- If you eat a lot of sugar, worms will grow in your belly.

- If you point at a shadow at night, it will come and kill you in your sleep.

God. Not scary but still.

- For a while I got my brother to believe in something called "cat-man" for about a year until I told him it wasn't real.

 

That's about it.

[Scootalove 10,689]

The things that I was told as a kid.

 

• Believing in Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, and other fictional characters.
• The Boogeyman hides under your bed.
• Dust Bunnies
• Step on a crack, break your mom's back.

[Modphase 1,271]

I thought that if people only live up to twenty years old, in fact, I believed counting numbers ended at twenty. That was of course, before I went to preschool.

 

 

I also believed my mom when she said that if I stay home alone instead of going with her on her errands, the boogeyman would come and get me.

 

I thought that if you walked enough, barefoot, on the sidewalk and asphalt, that maggots would grow on your feet and the only way to get rid of them was to burn them.

 

That an invisible clone of god was on every single table on the world. This was just my mom's nonsense to get me from standing on the table and whatnot.

 

Lastly, if you had a cold for two days straight you would die.

 

In order for a women to get pregnant you would simply need to marry.

Edited February 22, 2013 by Modphase

[Antismurf9001 1,271]

I remember being convinced that there was an undiscovered island where dinosaurs still existed.  I also thought that toys became alive like they did in 'Toy Story', and I also had solid proof that this was true.

 

Perhaps most embarrassingly though is my first interpretation of... um... let's just say the act of human reproduction...  I thought that it literally involved simply sleeping unclothed in the same bed as a human of the opposite gender.  No touching or anything was necessary, you just had to sleep there.

[An Old Head 4,816]

I think the stupidest thing I believed to be true, was that if you went too far up into the sky you would hit a ceiling.

I thought that every cloud stayed the exact same shape and moved at the same pace, a bit like stars. I kept waiting for a funny-shaped cloud I saw one day to come back round the Earth again :3
 

I thought, for some reason, that when pigeons landed on water they instantly turned into ducks.

 

I also thought that penguins were native to Switzerland... to be honest, I'm not sure why either.

[DR Leper Lupinstein 410]

that USA dominated as the best country in the world. America was supposed to be winner no matter what and that it was paradise in the sun. as a little kid i wanted to be a marine or a cop, but as i got older and things became clearer, partly through my "liberal" sister, i began to see the US as just another country under one person who calls the shots in a totalitarian regime.

[notdog1996 315]

I remember convincing myself that Jesus didn't make any sense by comparing him to Santa Claus (who of course is way more plausible...).  I also thought that to become an adult, you had a magical transformation to make you grow.