Stupid things you believed as a kid

[BytByte]

In my backyard there was a bush that had pointed leaves on it. One day, my sister and I were playing and she went to the bush and pulled off one of the leaves. She convinced that if the leaf poked me, I would die in 3 seconds. I believed her despite the fact that she was holding the darn thing while telling me all of this. Sure, I was like 4, but man that still seems dumb to me for that age.

Also, when I saw the show Double Dare 2000, I thought there must have been a Double Dare 1000, as in the

 

[BytByte]

Oh no! The first double post! Shame on me

 

[Palademon]

seriously though there is somthing SERIOUSLY wrong there..how could you not figure it out in 18 years of life? didnt she SEE that men don't have breasts.?..can't she see there is a bulge there when men wear tight pants? did she never watch a damn movie with a rating over G? what the hell is up with the parents?

Forget that. Where's the fucking sex ed?
We started that when we were 8.

 

[ClockworkPenguin]

My Dad convinced me that there were elves that lived in the Plum tree at the bottom of the garden named Finkin and Furkin. I realised that was bogus when I was about 6.

My sister went over to Australia to visit the Aussie side of our family, and our cousin (who was 6 and also watched a lot of Doctor Who) thought she came in a spaceship and that the UK was on a different planet. My sister did nothing to disabuse her of this notion and apparently told her that this was correct and that is why Christmas is in the winter in Britain.

 

[Froggy Slayer]

I used to believe that World War 1 was thought with steampunk gear.

And I had a friend, who, at various points, tried to convince me that:
1.A special agent from an alien race.
2.That he was king of our galaxy and could alter the laws of physics on a whim.
3.That he was a member of Kids Next Door.

 

[Justank]

If you were going to Antarctica you had to wear suction cups on your feet or you'd fall into space. Also that the world was a hollow sphere of water and when you were under the ocean, you were inside the Earth. Both at age 4. I also wanted to be a tiger when I grew up.

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[Mr.Squishy]

I used to believe a lot of shit. I'm very gullible. But even as a kid, I found the idea of god to be ridiculous. Like, to the point where I, under a sermon, stood up on a pew (I was 6) and asked to priest to please shut up - more or less in those exact words. Dead silence, no sound except for grandpa's bellowing laugh. Good times.
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I think it's trying to tell me something.

 

[thejackyl]

I used to think that credit cards were basically free money. Although, in fairness, credit cards are pretty damn complicated, and I'm sure most adults don't really understand how they work, which is a bit scary considering how many of these people probably use them on a regular basis.

It's more complicated than "Buy now, pay later."? And before you ask, Yes, I have a credit card, and yes, I pay it off every month. It's much more convenient than carrying lots of cash when I go out.

As for me:
I used to think that actors actually died when they died in movies and tv shows. I didn't watch much TV back than so I never saw two actors on the same shows (or if I did they didn't die in the show). Made horror movies very hard to watch.

Other than that I have nothing new to add to this thread.

 

[mechalynx]

I used to believe that certain places on Earth didn't exists, like New Caledonia and Sascatchewan, because they we in adventure books and you're not supposed to believe anything that's in those kind of books.

 

[Aris Khandr]

Personally i thought untill the age of about 11 that cats were baby dogs

On a similar train of thought, until I was 7 I thought that cats were girls and dogs were boys. I'm not sure why.

 

[sageoftruth]

I had a bunch of stuffed animals. I acted like they were all alive and real people (can't remember if I believed it or not). Since my parents didn't try to debunk me, I thought they believed it too.

Years later, I thought I was a ladies man. Peh! Stupid.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I thought people used to live in black and white.

Oh my God, me too!

Ditto. I remember from the last one of these threads that this thing seems to be surprisingly common. Around the same age I thought that some dude dressed as Obi-Wan Kenobi at Legoland was the actual Obi-Wan Kenobi (as in I thought he was the actual character who somehow existed in our dimension and not just Ewan McGregor) and that having beaten him in a little sparring contest with plastic Lightsabers meant that I was the superior Jedi. I know it's dumb, but to be fair I was only 17 at the time, so cut me some slack.

 

[adamsaccount]

I thought people used to live in black and white.

Oh my God, me too!

Ditto. I remember from the last one of these threads that this thing seems to be surprisingly common. Around the same age I thought that some dude dressed as Obi-Wan Kenobi at Legoland was the actual Obi-Wan Kenobi (as in I thought he was the actual character who somehow existed in our dimension and not just Ewan McGregor) and that having beaten him in a little sparring contest with plastic Lightsabers meant that I was the superior Jedi. I know it's dumb, but to be fair I was only 17 at the time, so cut me some slack.

Was he made of lego? That would have been a bit of a giveaway

 

[Brutal Peanut]

That horses lived on a diet of apples.

That pictures were watching me, so I would turn them around if I could.

I use to eat the whole fruit, so my mother told me that if I consumed too many fruit seeds, a tree would grow in my stomach and out of my mouth. I had my doubts about that one, but, it was still weird enough to make me worried about it.

I thought if anyone touched my belly-button too much that it would unravel and my guts would spill out. That's one of my weirder ones, and I still get really weirded out by it.

I also thought that as long as the animals were cute and fuzzy and had four legs with paws, they could breed together and make me other awesome species of pets. Like a buncat or a cag (cat and dog). I wanted a cag so badly.

 

[AnarchistFish]

I used to think that you could only marry someone if you'd met them by coincidence on two separate occasions. For ages I was worried this would never happen to me.

 

[freakymojo]

that all humans were immortal, and only a murderer or an accident could kill you.

 

[adamsaccount]

Oh yeah, also that cash was printed in cash machines, got my dad to thank for that one, whenever theyd make the CHHK CHHK CHHK PREPARE TO RECEIVE MONEY noise hed always go, "be patient its still printing"

 

[RedDeadFred]

1. Monsters - I loved reading about monsters (still do) but I thought they were real. Fun times.

2. Santa Claus - Believing in a nigh omniscient patriarch who punishes you for being naughty and rewards you for being nice. Silly parents, that's not a good way to get your children to act good.

3. The Christian God - Believing in a nigh omniscient patriarch who punishes you for being naughty and rewards you for being nice. Silly parents, that's not a good way to get your children to act good.

All of these. Funnily enough, I stopped believing in all three of them at the same time. I was nine when I realized there was no Santa but then I realized that the other two were just as far fetched. Especially the idea of God being a good person.

I also used to believe that all adults were smart and mature. I didn't realize that I was wrong about this until I was about 13. Ya, I was a pretty naive kid.

When I was extremely young, I truly believed that the moon was made of cheese and that when it was a new moon, it meant the giant sky mouse had finished eating it. Then it would slowly regrow.

 

[kortin]

I thought your belly button was easy to break and was terrified that if I get poked there, my stomach would burst open. It's still uncomfortable to be poked in my belly button. .__.

I also thought homosexuality was a choice. Lol.

 

[Jayemsal]

Pretty much this.


Turns out I was wrong.

Also turns out I cant embed properly, its this:
http://youtu.be/F2AE2aL0-6Y