Stupid things you used to believe as a child?

[oak]

I have another one. When I was a kid my neighbour gave me a bunch of vegetables out of his garden and told me to make sure I gave them to my mom. Well I was fully convinced he was trying to poison us so I threw them all in the garbage and never told anyone lmao.

Also I thought there was a chance shower heads had cameras in them? Literally makes no sense, so everytime I went to the washroom I had to push the head of the shower away from my view before I sat on the toilet. I was so paranoid for some reason? Always suspicious.

 

[nightglow]

Until I was about 7 I had a fear of being sucked down the tub drain lol. I'd wig out if the plug was pulled lol. Drove my mom insane as she would say your hand can't even fit in the drain how is your whole body going to?
I "blame" cartoons

 

[Bekaa]

Until I was about 7 I had a fear of being sucked down the tub drain lol. I'd wig out if the plug was pulled lol. Drove my mom insane as she would say your hand can't even fit in the drain how is your whole body going to?
I "blame" cartoons

I had the same fear!

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This is where I thought babies came from:
mom and dad went to the hospital, and there was a baby vending machine. The parents put in their money and then chose their child’s attributes, like blonde hair or brown eyes, etc. Then, with the push of a button, out popped a baby from the machine!

 

[Shellzilla_515]

First, I thought people who got married would magically have a child out of nowhere. Of course, reality shows it's not the case.

The second point was while I was on a plane with my parents. I asked them if planes had unlimited fuel and they nodded yes. WRONG. They still have limited amounts of fuel they can burn just like many other vehicles. They literally have trucks with huge fuel tanks at airports to fill the plane back up.

Some of the stupid things I believed as a child were boring, though...

 

[DarkDesertFox]

This is going to sound really stupid and please feel free to laugh at me. I used to think the phrase, "objects in (the) mirror are closer than they appear" written on car rearview mirrors was some sort of fancy proverb. Nope, it was literally just a safety message on cars. Also, I used to think the moon was made of cheese. I will be back with more I'm sure.

 

[Corrie]

I believed that if you swallowed gum it would stay stuck in your stomach for 7 years. That rumour spread around our school so fast haha.

 

[Belle T]

I'm aware that there are extremely specific conditions in which this actually can happen, but I was convinced as a child that startling someone was a guaranteed, sure-fire way to trigger a heart attack, even if you have no history of heart problems or anything of the sort.

Anyway, now I'm dead, and it's all because of seven-year-olds wearing cheap goblin masks on Halloween. Think twice before you spoop.

 

[Snek]

5 Things
All are pretty much Pokémon related
1. That Ghost type was super effective against Psychic in Gen 1 games
2. That New York City was the capital of the USA
3. That a Pokémon would be caught at a higher rate if you pressed the A button repeatedly.
4. That Mew was behind the truck in Vermilion City
5. That chocolate came from a nut

 

[Alienfish]

Too many things, I was rather sheltered. But yeah basically I believed Disney movies being the "true" stories and not knowing they basically took stuff and made em kid friendly. LoL.

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I believed that if you swallowed gum it would stay stuck in your stomach for 7 years. That rumour spread around our school so fast haha.

Oh yeah this my parents tried to scare me with this(it getting stuck and be very careful swallowing it etc) when I started using them. Like, bruh I've done it at least twice and nothing happened lol.

 

[DinosaurDumpster]

Before I watched Lemonade Mouth as a kid, legit thought it was a musical about kids running a lemonade stand. I never saw any trailers or announcements before it came out, my sister just mentioned she wanted to watch it. boy was i disappointed lol

 

[simp]

what i said was cringe

 

[Aminata]

I used to believe monsters would come to get me if i go to sleep alone

 

[Princess Mipha]

Clouds are created by the nuclear power plants! It took me years to understand that this is not the case.
It was actually pretty common to tell this to children, at least where I used to live. I mean, you can't blame me
for believing it.. we had a nuclear power plant near and it did really look like the clouds came out of there.

 

[dragonpisces69]

I used to believe that carrots were actually good for rabbits and that bread was actually good for ducks, because whenever I'd feed those animals whenever I was at a petting zoo with a group of other kids of around my age (I was about 5), the rabbits would commonly get carrots and the ducks would commonly get bread... I'm not kidding when I say that those foods are actually bad for them, and that those petting zoo employees were most likely not the brighest in that respect!

Recently, I've bunny-sat the neighbours' rabbit and, as his owners prescribed, fed him bread, apple slices, pellets, and occasionally some leaves from one of their bushes (one of the bushes was an ivy, but don't worry, I didn't feed him that), and as for ducks, it's been ages since I've last fed them, but nowadays, I do know that vegetables like peas and corn are recommended to feed to them.

 

[-Lumi-]

Add me to the group of kids who was told (and believed) that if I swallowed gum it would get stuck in my tummy forever (or maybe just seven years??) and that if I swallowed apple/watermelon seeds they would grow in my tummy. Not my brightest moment, lol, but it definitely kept me from swallowing those things which was good!! Although I'm sure the apple/watermelon seed thing backfired for some kids who wanted them to grow in their tummy.

I was also convinced for a while that the people on the TV were in the TV. It made a lot of sense in my head since our TV's were huge (like, the old chubby ones that weighed a ton lololol) so that's where the people lived and that's why it was so heavy. Nevermind the fact that somehow these people managed to turn tiny and be in other peoples TV sometimes too...

My younger sister and I were once convinced if we dug a hole deep enough we'd find a portal. Just a magic portal so that we could go to a new world!! It was a bummer when we hit clay or whatever and we couldn't keep digging, lol.

 

[petaltail]

i used to celebrate my birthday the day after my actual birthday day when i was a kid (usually bc of my parents' work schedules and such), and since we did it so often i used to think that was when my birthday actually was lol
also i had no idea how timezones worked for the longest time, i used to think that when it was 10am where i lived, everywhere else it was 10pm???

 

[hauntedhead]

i saw a television advert for a ben 10 watch toy and i whole heartedly thought that if i bought it i’d be able to turn into the aliens like in the show lol. another one was that i was genuinely convinced i was a werewolf at one point n wrote a whole confession letter to my mum about how it was a full moon and i was going to change into a wolf and they all had to evacuate the house

 

[idiotdoomspiral]

For over a decade i believed every member in gorillaz had secret identities and was too stupid to just google it lol

 

[Foreverfox]

For over a decade i believed every member in gorillaz had secret identities and was too stupid to just google it lol

Same. I was always mystified that "no one knew who they were"

 

[Stella-Io]

I was a naive child

During my 5th grade year in sex-ed, the class was watching an old (emphasis on the old) video about womanhood and whatever. At one point in the video it said somethin like 'when a woman gets married she has kids' so I thought in order to have kids, you have to be married, or atleast 'common law' married. But that's just an old time view thing, since the video was made in that time period.

I also thought women were going to get married in life. Like, it was a thing for all women to get married at some point in their lives, like there was no other option.

Funny since my parents weren't married, but I considered them married even if they didn't do the whole big wedding thing cause they each had wedding rings. In my naive child mind, wedding rings=automatically married. My mom has both the engagement and wedding ring, so I thought the wedding ring made everythin official.

I had weird views on marriage and womanhood back then.