VernalLapin
anyway
That it was twinning’s tea, not twining’s tea.
Stupid things you used to believe as a child?
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CylieDanny
A Beautiful Heart
If you color outside the lines in coloring book, you're a terrible artist :")
My grandma told me and my sister that when we were little and well, we believed her.
My grandma told me and my sister that when we were little and well, we believed her.
michealsmells
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I thought my dad worked for Santa because he used to work at Payless Shoe Source 
To be fair he did tell me this but I also fully believed him.
For such a smart child I was a freaking idiot. My dad CLEARLY doesn't have enough connections to know the REAL Santa!
(Like I already figured it didn't, but having it confirmed breaks my little heart)
To be fair he did tell me this but I also fully believed him.
For such a smart child I was a freaking idiot. My dad CLEARLY doesn't have enough connections to know the REAL Santa!
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As someone who's gonna be able to drink come the end of this year and loves the flavor of rose, this is the most crushing fact I've ever heard.
(Like I already figured it didn't, but having it confirmed breaks my little heart)
VernalLapin
anyway
My mom used to get those emails that said noreply@suchandsuch .com and I for a while I could not for the life of me figure out who “nor-pully” was and why he had so many email accounts.
Millysaurusrexjr
hello everynyan
I think at one point as a kid I thought that the president of the USA was the president of the world (??????)
I also for some reason thought that Miami was not a place but a person that I was related to, until we went to Miami
I also for some reason thought that Miami was not a place but a person that I was related to, until we went to Miami
ConfusedDad
*writes cutely*
UNCLE MIAMI YOU FINALLY CAME TO VISIT
that the world was going to end on in 2017.. when i was 12 i had unmonitored access to the internet and unfortunately i came across an article of some guy saying that the world was going to end on a specific date on a saturday because that was supposed to happen in 2012 and we were overdue. i literally believed it and went crying to my parents, so so stupid
FrostyAlmonds
Senior Member
I used to be that kid who liked to theorize and understand everything around me...but apparently not actually ask ask adults how things worked. Animation was one of the things I contemplated about a lot; I had settled on the idea that there was someone physically moving cut out drawn images really quickly (at impossible speeds) over a separately drawn background in front of a video camera....and somehow they invented invisible popsicle sticks to accomplish this. 
(hey, I'll just take that I was right that characters and bgs were indeed drawn separately)
I don't even remember this one so I must have been super young, but my uncle always told me that I used to be afraid of him when I was younger because he had blue eyes and I apparently believed people with blue eyes were wolves.
(hey, I'll just take that I was right that characters and bgs were indeed drawn separately)I don't even remember this one so I must have been super young, but my uncle always told me that I used to be afraid of him when I was younger because he had blue eyes and I apparently believed people with blue eyes were wolves.
.: Meri :.
❅ a crystal dream ❅
This is pure toddler logic, but I remember when I was very, very young, my family explained that animated shows weren't real and it was all just actors. So I understood that Blue's Clues wasn't "real", but instead I fully believed that there was actually a blue cartoon dog who was a professional actor. 
I also thought that every time I watched a show or movie, the actors involved had to stop whatever they were doing at that moment and perfectly re-enact the same story every single time. Sometimes I even felt bad for making them do the same things over and over LOL. But I thought they were ridiculously talented for being able to do it without ever messing up!!
I also thought that every time I watched a show or movie, the actors involved had to stop whatever they were doing at that moment and perfectly re-enact the same story every single time. Sometimes I even felt bad for making them do the same things over and over LOL. But I thought they were ridiculously talented for being able to do it without ever messing up!!
Blue's Clues and Super Mario 64 set an unrealistic expectation for the propensity to jump into framed portraits. Surely, they couldn't both be lying to me.This is pure toddler logic, but I remember when I was very, very young, my family explained that animated shows weren't real and it was all just actors. So I understood that Blue's Clues wasn't "real", but instead I fully believed that there was actually a blue cartoon dog who was a professional actor.
AccfSally
Writer ₊˚✩
I posted here a few years ago but I thought of another one, 'Cereal killer' instead of Serial killer
Whenever I heard this as a kid, I always thought it was some person going around and stumping on the breakfast item.
and I would wonder why.
Whenever I heard this as a kid, I always thought it was some person going around and stumping on the breakfast item.
and I would wonder why.
Yoshi155
Step inside and hold on for dear life
I was so stupid when I was younger . There's a lot of dumb things I believed. Here's a few list:
. There's a lot of dumb things I believed. Here's a - I thought people who worked at stores lived there, and they slept on the conveyor belts
- I thought that you could actually time travel in Minecraft. This is actually something I did believe for a while, but now I'm looking back and wondering how I could possibly believe that
- Another Minecraft-related thing is that I thought if you made a Herobrine shrine he'd actually ruin your PC or console
- I used to think women just got pregnant out of nowhere after they got married. I asked my mom why I only had two siblings and if she could just get pregnant so I could have more and she told me it doesn't like that
- I thought that there was someone who was president of the world and could decide anything that happened
- Once, I read this book about going to space and what you should do if you went there and I thought that anyone could just go to space if they wanted to
- After watching Fairly Oddparents, I thought that I could actually get fairy godparents in real life
rocketspruggs
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I thought a watermelon would grow in your stomach if you ate the seeds...
I used to assume that all of the adults who worked at all schools were all just teachers, I also thought that they, "lived", in school. I was homeschooled as a kid, though, so this could probably be why.
When the ice cream truck music played, I thought that meant they were out of ice cream.
When I was a child, I have heard about Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, and the tooth fairy SO much, just about anywhere at the time, even I thought they were real, too, as well!
I thought Blue from Blue's Clues was a boy.
I thought you could suddenly see everything in the dark if you ate enough carrots...
I used to think all parents looked the same; the mothers wore sundresses with floral patterns on them, and always wore sandals, they never wore any other kind of shoes, and the fathers all wore the same kind of business suit every day all the time 24/7.
I would like to blame cartoons for that one.
I also thought that you could be an adult and get a job once you turned 40, I have no idea why...
I used to assume that all of the adults who worked at all schools were all just teachers, I also thought that they, "lived", in school. I was homeschooled as a kid, though, so this could probably be why.
When the ice cream truck music played, I thought that meant they were out of ice cream.
When I was a child, I have heard about Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, and the tooth fairy SO much, just about anywhere at the time, even I thought they were real, too, as well!
I thought Blue from Blue's Clues was a boy.
I thought you could suddenly see everything in the dark if you ate enough carrots...
I used to think all parents looked the same; the mothers wore sundresses with floral patterns on them, and always wore sandals, they never wore any other kind of shoes, and the fathers all wore the same kind of business suit every day all the time 24/7.
I would like to blame cartoons for that one.
I also thought that you could be an adult and get a job once you turned 40, I have no idea why...
VernalLapin
anyway
I can't believe i've never posted this here, but I when I was little I was terrified of eating airheads candy because I thought my head might turn into a balloon and/or I might fly out the ceiling or window like in the commercials.
QueenCobra
big boy season
I guess this is more like a misconception, but for the longest time I thought Desi Arnaz sang "Feliz Navidad". I also didn't understand the concept of grandparents, like why my parents called them "Mom and Dad". I guess I assumed they were random old people who hung out with us lol.
VernalLapin
anyway
I thought that “See the blazing yule before us” meant “race ya there” rather than see it *in front* of us.
One of the school bus drivers I had told us that the (then brand-new in 2007) digital security cameras on the bus could see directly through the seats. I actually believed this myth for a good while, and was 100% proven wrong when I became a driver myself and saw footage from some of these same cameras that were still equipped on the (now really old) buses in our fleet. I brought up the myth with that same driver after I got hired in, and he got a real kick out of me remembering that.
As a kid, you pretty much believe anything teachers tell you. In this case, it was to prevent you from misbehaving on the bus. And my goodness, that tactic worked on me.
As a kid, you pretty much believe anything teachers tell you. In this case, it was to prevent you from misbehaving on the bus. And my goodness, that tactic worked on me.
Torts McGorts
🚫mole cricket szn🚫
Not realizing “many will enter, few will win” applied to most (if not all) contests. I remember doing some contest for Kool-Aid when I was 6 or 7, and I was thrilled when I figured out the answer to their question. I was so excited checking the mail a couple weeks later that a shut my ring finger in the hinge side of the front door after the mail truck came and nearly lost the tip. Thankfully, it was saved with stitches, and doesn’t really look any different.
Not long after, my mom gave me the low down on how contests and drawings really work.
Not long after, my mom gave me the low down on how contests and drawings really work.
off the top of my head, i believed the classic if you eat the seeds of a fruit (like watermelon seeds or apple seeds) you'd grow a tree in your stomach. i also believed that if you swallowed gum, it'd stay in your stomach for 10 years! (this was told to me as a kid to probably deter me from swallowing gum, but i remember being put off gum for a while after hearing that LOL)
