Silly Childhood Beliefs

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Nuuu

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-I used to believe the baby was grown in the stomach, and that doctors had to cut the baby out when it was time. It wasn't until the troublemaker kid of my Dad's friends showed me an educational video of how babies are born, where i then angrily walked down to my mother to yell at her for lying to me.

- The above video did not go into specifics about how reproduction worked though, but it did show one squiggly from the male silhouette move to meet the squiggly in the female silhouette. This made me believe that to get a girl pregnant, you kissed until the boy felt the squiggly thing move out of his mouth into the girls mouth.

- When my mother told me she was from Wales, I thought it was some small little country, possibly 3rd world, in some weird part of the world (I live in the US). It wasn't until I chose it for a project in 6th or 7th grade that I got some confirmation on where it was.

I also had a neighbor who came over often that I have to mention. She was incredibly superstitious.

- She believed Crane Flies (Daddy Long-Legs for those outside of the U.S.) were actually giant mosquitoes that would suck out all your blood if you bothered it.

- She believed that stepping on a (possibly already dead) bee would anger other bees that would then chase you down.

- Her and her pet bird could share food because "They shared the same saliva" (I think she was eating a snow cone).
 

Souplex

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When I was a lad I though James Bond was a parody of Austin Powers.
Simpler times.
 

Mimic

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I totally thought the past was in black and white when I was a kid too based on TV. I also thought that they were actually filmed in the eras they were set (I remember this with Little House on the Prairie for some reason) and that they were all dead now.

I also believed that you could fly like Peter Pan if you thought about it really REALLY hard and my mum was in charge of Kelloggs cornflakes - no idea why for that one.
 

CrazyGirl17

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Well... when I was little, I was really into dinosaurs. I had books, toys, movies, the whole nine yards. You know the old saying about blowing dandelions will make a wish come true? I used to do this and wish for the dinosaurs to come back. Not only is that impossible... but it would also be a bad idea. Yeah... I wasn't the smartest kid out there...
 

Poetic Nova

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Bleh, my memory of anything pre-18 is so fuzzy that the only thing I kinda remember is that I actually thought that people lived in black and white before I was born.
 

vledleR

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Crosswalks at intersections; I used to think when you press the button, there was a buzzer that would alert a worker underground who would switch the lights.
 

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Silvanus said:
I was under the delusion that Santa didn't exist, for a while.
Wait, are you saying that Santa actually is real, and people saying he isn't is the actual deception?
 

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-I used to believe that I was actually a Caucasian person trapped in an African-American person's body...
-I used to believe the phrase "Fuck your shit" was a term of endearment...
-I used to believe that you know when you're sick when the TV starts controlling your body...
-I used to believe I had no genitalia because none of the dolls had any... (That goes double for nipples...)
-I used to believe putting on someone else's clothes would make you become them...
-I used to believe you had to spin around equally otherwise you become a different person...
-I used to believe one of my distant cousins was one of my imaginary friends...
-I used to believe I could become one of the "Sailor Scouts" from Sailor Moon one day...
-I used to believe I would grow up to become Tenchi from Tenchi Muyo... (or rather the OVA showed me my future...)
-I used to believe the KND was a real organization...
-I used to believe I knew Mrs. Claus first-hand...

I did have another childhood belief involving little boys and penises, but... uh... I don't know how to say that one without it sounding "too" weird...
 

Generalissimo

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I have a few corkers for you:

I believed Cornwall was Wales and the area where wales actually is was just part of England

I believed the forest I could see from my house was Australia

I believed it was illegal for scots to wear trousers

I believed if you ran too far too fast and ran all out of breath you would drop dead on the spot

-.-
 

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Solsbury_Grille said:
Here's one that's timely. You know that Christmas carol, "Hark the Herald Angels Sing"?

I always thought the angel's name was Harold.
Ha, I have a similar one, according to my parents after learning about Islam at school I thought their god was called 'Alan'. Unfortunately I have a terrible recollection of my early years and so I can't remember many silly beliefs myself, except the one where I thought the continents and islands floated in the sea so you would be able to go under them in theory. That and ghosts.
 

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When I was a child I believed I would one day marry my childhood friend; the daughter of my mothers closest lifelong friend.

Now I'm just alone.