Stupid things you used to believe as a child?

[Croconaw]

What stupid things did you believe as a child, or stupid things you’ve done as a child?

I used to believe that people were born the age they were. Apparently there were no such things as birthdays in my mind? What a shame it would’ve been to be stuck in elementary school forever.

As for stupid things I’ve done, this one comes to mind immediately. I drank lemonade extract. I looked in the fridge, saw the words “lemonade” and took a huge sip. Needless to say, I don’t drink lemonade that much anymore. That experience made me lose interest real quick.

 

[oak]

My sister told me when I was a kid that if my bellybutton came undone my butt would fall off cause they were connected somehow lmao. I remember being terrified to let anyone go near my bellybutton afterwards. I was a pretty naive child.

 

[LadyDestani]

I can't remember anything stupid that I believed, but I did a couple of stupid things, for sure. My family loves to bring these things up at every family gathering. It's so much fun...

1. When I was about 4 or 5 years old, I had a decorative strawberry milkshake in my room. I stress the word decorative. I don't know what it was made of, maybe foam or paper flakes, but it looked real enough to little child me. I took a sip from it and nearly choked on the flakey substance it was made from.

2. A year or two later, when I was just starting 1st grade, I got an ice cream sandwich at the school cafeteria during lunch. I don't remember why, but I didn't end up eating it then. I had this little pink purse and I stuck it in there to save it for later. On the bus ride home that afternoon, I looked in my purse and, of course, the ice cream had melted all over everything and chocolate had stained the inside of my purse. I got off the bus, keeping a brave face and pretending like nothing was wrong. My mom said as soon as the bus had pulled away, I broke down in tears. She cleaned my purse out for me and I learned that you can't save ice cream for later.

I had bad luck with things related to ice cream as a child. It's amazing that I still love it so much.

 

[xlisapisa]

my grandmother used to tell me if I pointed at the moon my ears would fall off. i know its not true, but to this day i do not point at the moon. then there's my mother who used to tell me if I swallow any kind of fruit seeds a tree will grow inside my stomach. yes, I was a very gullible child.

as for a stupid thing i did as a kid? i once played with one of those curling brushes ( i don't really know the term for it, maybe a blow out brush or round brush??) and i kept wrapping my hair up in it and eventually it got stuck in my hair and wouldn't come out. so i had to get a good chunk of my hair cut off to get it out, it was an uneven mess. i haven't touched one of those brushes ever since.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

my dad told me that the double triangle symbol button would blow up the car if I pressed it

i didn't press it

 

[Dwayne Johnson]

i used to think where i lived was the entire country of canada and everywhere else was the states

 

[Midoriya]

Really only one I can think of, but at one point I decided that all the brown UPS trucks I saw were actually made out of chocolate. I wanted to test out my theory by biting into the side of one of them. I'm glad I didn't though.

 

[Stikki]

That anytime I looked in the mirror, it would be shown on tv. I was very little, like 3 or 4.

 

[Xara]

my father, a very hairy man, would often tell me that if i didn’t eat enough vegetables, hair would grow all over my body and that i’d look like him, even claiming that he didn’t eat enough vegetables himself which is true lol. i don’t wanna talk about how long it took for me to realize that he was lying LOL.

but the ironic thing is, i wound up with a ridiculous amount of body hair anyways, thanks to my lovely italian genes lmao.

 

[Neb]

At the Unitarian Universalist church I attended as a child I often misunderstood stories we were told. For example, I thought Jesus was born in an airplane made of hay. I also thought est. on signs was short for “East” instead of “established.”

Until a couple of years ago I thought Singapore and Maylasia were in Europe and that Guam was in the Caribbean. Oops.

 

[Lt.Savior]

As a child i grew up with Micheal Jackson, and the song thriller. I was so frightened of it. In the song he sings: It's close to midnight. So i thought that when the clock would strike 12, vampire's and other scary thing would come to life and i was really frightened of that.

 

[VanitasFan26]

I used to believe that fairy tales were real and that they make your dreams come true. Man was I so wrong.....

 

[Beanz]

when i was in preschool it was somebody in my class's birthday so that meant that our school would let them bring cupcakes or another type of sweet to celebrate. my classmate brought chocolate cupcakes in and i was eating it but then i saw this pinkish thing in it and i thought EWWW ITS A WORM but it was actually my finger and i was scared of eating chocolate cupcakes after that.

also when i was 11 (not as young as everyone else’s stories here) i started to play minecraft and i learned about herobrine on the internet. for those of you who don’t know who herobrine is he looks like steve but he has white eyes, he’s really creepy, and he kind of wrecks havoc on your minecraft world. he’s not real but supposed signs of him being in your world is unnatural generated structures and no leaves on any of your trees. ANYWAY, one day i was playing and tall grass had generated on sand (which is was not what it was supposed to do) and it all of a sudden breaks. i thought for some reason OMG ITS HEROBRINE and i left the game. needless to say, it scared the crap out of me and i didn’t play for a week.

 

[_Donut_]

That chickens can't fly...

After being chased by one up a tree, I can inform all of you with confidence...that they can.

 

[Stikki]

That chickens can't fly...

After being chased by one up a tree, I can inform all of you with confidence...that they can.

Omg that sounds intense. I wouldn't have enjoyed this at all.

 

[AccfSally]

The watermelon seed thing, the one if you were to swallow it a watermelon would grow in your belly.
Same with apple seeds.

 

[Weebgirlstan]

i believed in santa when i was little looking back i found that stupid lol

 

[Antonio]

That everything before the 1970s was black n' white and the fact that my father knew about it.

 

[Aminata]

I thought if i kept pointing at the stars it would appear wrinkles in my fingers, my grandma always said that pointing at the stars would make a person get wrinkles in their fingers. Lucklly it was not true
i was so silly that i don't know why but i used to believe rats could turn into... bats

 

[Pintuition]

I used to think the sun made noise! In the summer I'd be outside and when the sun would come out, all the june bugs would make noise. I didn't realize it was an insect making the noise- I thought it was the actual sun! Oh to be a kid again!!!