That a fat man with a white beard would travel on a FLYING sleigh with MAGICAL deers and a big sack with enough presents to gift to all “nice” kids, managing to fly so fast as to deliver all the gifts as ordered by the kids, while having to crawl in and out of chimneys, drinking around 200ml of milk and eating 4 cookies at EACH house + leaving behind coal to all the naughty kids??? That is a lot of coal.
I went through 2 years of poo retention (ages 3-5) because I firmly believed that it was not just possible but likely that I could poop out my vital organs
One time I was busting for a wee when my aunty was driving and asked her to pull into a motel or something. She pointed at the sign and said, see how that says no vacancy? That means there’s no toilets. I deadset believed this until I was 13 because I just took it and never thought anything of it. LOL
I read a question/answer thing once about what cashiers were looking for when deciding about accepting a personal check… the answer included a line about the safest people to accept checks from were “well dressed men buying staples”… for years I thought they meant literal staples like you’d put in a stapler… I was much older than I should’ve been when I realized they meant milk, bread, eggs, etc…
But I used to think my dad “peed” inside my stepmom. I told my older brother once that it was convenient if you were married because as a man, if you needed to pee, you could just do it inside your wife.
My brother only smiled, and told me “That’s not how it works.”
When actors on a tv show got married, I thought that ceremony meant they were married in real life. Silly kid that I was, knew they were actors but had no idea about marriage licenses and whatnot.
I thought that when they say “you may now kiss the bride” in wedding ceremonies, that the kiss itself is what made them married. So I basically thought anytime two people kissed, if they were t already married, they were after that.
I genuinely though everything i was watching on my tv was happening right inside my tv as i watched it. Of course we had a masssssive box tv and 4yo me figured it had to be there for a reason.
That clouds brought night. There always seemed to be clouds on the horizon at dusk. I dunno, it just made sense. I don’t even remember when I stopped thinking it, it wasn’t like it was something I learned otherwise about, it just disappeared.
I think a lot of people probably heard this one growing up: it’s illegal for your parents to drive the car while the light was on inside.
I loved reading as a kid and when it would get dark, I’d want to turn the light on inside the cab… oh no, don’t do that, we will get pulled over by the cops.
If I turned on the fan vent thingy in the bathroom the gremlins from the 1984 gremlins movie would climb through the vents and kill me however every time I flushed It would reset them
That I was talking to my grandmas cat on the phone when I called her! I believed the cat was really meowing back until I was like 14 and realized it was her meowing at me the whole time lol
As a child, I took “drinking and driving” literally. Being 4 or 5 in the backseat of my aunt’s car and watching her drink a mcdonalds pop sent me into a panic. She thought it was hilarious but kindly explained to me it meant alcohol and driving lmao.
My mom tried to explain how a baby is made in kid terms. She said there’s an egg, kinda like the size of a little peanut from the mom, and there’s something like a fish from the dad. So when they meet up inside mom’s belly, it makes a baby.
I thought that’s why we don’t mix nuts with fish in our cooked dishes and eat them.
I thought people came out of the womb fully clothed, since everyone always had clothes on and treated being naked like it was weird or temporary. I also thought that my dad was older than my mom because he was bigger so he must have been born before her and started growing first. In a similar assumption based on anecdotally observed correlation, my three year-old was telling me that he still had his name because he didn’t grow bigger like me but when he gets bigger then his name will be Daddy like me. While explaining it, he was clearly sad—but accepting of the fact—that you have to give up your name at a certain size and have to go by “Daddy” or “Mommy” depending on your gender.
That the music coming from our radio was a live band. I thought how do they get all those people to play so many songs. Now this was am radio only way before fm
No, despite how pretentious that all sounds my family owned a single mom and pop pizzeria. And I had very few friends whose parents also happened to own their own modest small business. I wouldn’t say I was a dumb kid, just sheltered.
some kid at my church told me that if i ate a marshmallow off of the ground i’d grow hair in my throat. i’m pretty sure he just wanted the marshmallows to himself.
i obviously know that’s not true, but i still won’t eat any marshmallows that have been on the floor
That the second wife/husband was always the step parent. My uncle was married before, and I automatically assumed she was my cousins’ mom, and not my aunt. That was not the case. They’re all older than me except one, so I thought all of the drama happened before I was born.
most people that lived in Texas wore cowboy boots/hats and used horses as transportation and in reality I’ve seen it more in rural indiana (Amish) than I ever did in Texas.
When I was really little, I would cry whenever anyone blew a bubble with their bubblegum as I thought it was their insides coming out. I’d also cry anytime someone ate a Snickers bar because I thought the caramel was snot.🤷♀️
I once wish to climbe a Cloud which I saw on a little hill. As I was in the peak of the hill I realised the cloud ist above the next Hill and I just have to walk up on this Hill to finally climbe the Clouds.. but I was fear to run too far away from Home and decided to do not because it could bring worry to my Mom and let it be…
I believed the overflow holes in the sink led to the sewer, and the sewer had alligators. So, I would splash water into the hole to tease the alligators. Lmao
When I first started watching Donny and Marie Osmond, I thought they were husband & wife, not siblings. I thought Marie married into the singing family. 😆
Detroit was another part of New York City. My dad would often do day trips there, and would talk about having to go to Detroit in the morning. (He worked in Manhattan). I just thought it was another borough of NYC.
At a centennial parade they had a large group of people in Victorian clothing, I swore they used a time machine to bring those people from 1866 back for the parade!
My seven year old was telling me a few weeks ago about all the rocket trails (contrails)in the sky. I kind of liked his idea of a world with rockets flying around everyday
When I was about 4, my mum told me she was the woman in the video for Meatloaf’s ‘I Would Do Anything for Love (but I Won’t Do That’. Believed that for most of my childhood.
There were monsters under my bed, but not under my little sister’s. We shared a room, and our beds touched in an L shape. Somehow there was a boundary that they could reach through but not cross. My sister was very pleased to hear that! She was less pleased when I crawled across her to get back into my own bed.
In 4th grade, our teacher explained that the umbilical cord of the child is linked to the mother and provides all the nutrients. I asked where it was located, and the teacher said dryly that it was at the navel.
I grew up believing that the baby’ navel is linked to the mother’s navel through the umbilical cord. I could not fathom how this would provide the child with anything other than air, but I never doubted my teacher’s words.
I realised very, very late that the cord goes to the placenta, which made way more sense but was way less funny to imagine.
Women give birth via their butthole. Some neighbor girls, when I was 8 or so, were talking secretly. One of them must have just got “the sex talk” from her mom. I kept begging them to tell me what they were whispering about. Finally one said “babies come out of a lady’s butt.” At the time it seemed to make perfect sense to me. Not till a few years later when me and some guy were looking at a porn magazine (stolen from his dad) did I learn the truth when he pointed to a woman’s vagina and said “that’s where you put you d*ck then later the baby comes out”.
Random but I just watched a documentary on it and hadn’t followed the story since it happened in the 90s. I was a young and very naive teenager at the time. I genuinely believed that everyone saw Monica Lewinsky as a victim and she had a voice. I had zero clue she also was put into legal trouble for lying for him. And I didn’t realize people hated her and called her names because they believed she tried to hurt the president’s career. Granted most of my take on the situation came from Oprah. I also had no idea what exactly was special about the dress or what sex act did happen. Again SUPER naive. I think it’s weird because other people my age understood way more about the scandal and got Monica was treated poorly.
I also as a kid up until Clinton scandal believed Watergate had to do with actual water. That it was something to do with exposing something to do with water. I didn’t get more specific in my thoughts just water was involved. That’s weird because why wouldn’t I acquire more details before settling on water.
My bed was pushed up against the wall and I would sleep as close to the edge away from the wall as I could because I thought skeletons would come up from the wall side. I have no idea why I had that fear but it was real, and lasted for a while.
UK: Aged around 5 I was accompanying my parents around a furniture store and saw one I liked.
I reached into my pocket for the correct change and made my way over to the till. Through this attempted transaction I discovered that it’s called a “Three Piece Suite” not “3p suite”.
My mother was diabolical in the best way. She told all of us kids, including the neighborhood kids, that when you lost a tooth, if you didn’t stick your tongue in the hole, it would grow in a gold tooth.
When I was a kid my cousin told me that inside every popcorn kernel there’s a little devil, and when you heat him up he gets mad and POPS, and that’s how we get popcorn. Believed it for years.
Read this to my wife. She said there was a girl down the street when she was growing up who had big nostrils. Her dad told her it was because she picked her nose.
I didn’t really get weddings. I thought there was literally a 50/50 chance that either person would say yes. I didn’t get that the engagements were usually long and both people already knew they wanted to get married. So when the priest would say “do you take…” and the person would say “I do” I would be so relieved.
I thought cigarettes that had an orange filter was for women and the white filters were for men
Also when I was 4-5 there was an Asian women holding on umbrella in the sun and I asked my mom why she was holding it , and my mom said it’s only raining on them. And I believe it
That there were these little crab-like creatures in the forest with suction cups instead of claws. Their suction cups were so powerful that they could suck you into the forest from a very long distance, due to some powerful reverse air wave emitted from the cups. Once they got hold of you they would suck all the blood out of your body.
My best friend at the time had a very vivid imagination, and I was kind of dumb so I believed this was true 😂
A friend of mine after reading The Witches believed all chocolate was laced with the witches potion to turn people into mice and the friend avoided chocolate at all costs.
2 from my catalog of odd beliefs-
I thought all people with dark brown hair were from NY. I thought we were one of each animal- a squirrel, a cow, etc. (I strongly believed this one, no idea where it came from).
My mum would always tell me when I was a kid that if I didn’t dry my hair properly, the water would seep into my brain and make me insane.
It took me until 9 years old to realise that that, along with about 1000 other stuff my mum said, was BS.
Funniest part is, my mum wasn’t the type of lady to lie about that type of thing to kids. She genuinely believed it. Still does, actually – she’s also not the type of person who believes she could be proven wrong by someone younger than her.
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That when someone was pregnant they could decide if they wanted a single baby or twins
I thought if you swallowed watermelon seeds, a watermelon would grow in your stomach… was so careful not to swallow any 😂
I thought grocery store cashiers gave change back only to people they liked.
A 6 ft. Rabbit was coming to my house to bring me a Basket full of candy and a toy😆
That a fat man with a white beard would travel on a FLYING sleigh with MAGICAL deers and a big sack with enough presents to gift to all “nice” kids, managing to fly so fast as to deliver all the gifts as ordered by the kids, while having to crawl in and out of chimneys, drinking around 200ml of milk and eating 4 cookies at EACH house + leaving behind coal to all the naughty kids??? That is a lot of coal.
You can eat money since it’s made out of mint and gives you fresh breath.
I used to think my parents prayed to God to have me
Guacamole was actually monkey snot
If you unplugged the TV you could resume your show when you plugged it back in.
I went through 2 years of poo retention (ages 3-5) because I firmly believed that it was not just possible but likely that I could poop out my vital organs
That god existed.
It was not until I discovered a Wikipedia article on the Roswell UFO incident that I realized only fools practice religion.
that kissing will make you pregnant
I thought the moon followed my car everywhere I went.
That people were good, deep down.
That ppl can see out of glass eyes
That someone is living inside me and we talk to each other. 😂
that nurses couldn’t take certain medications
because commercials would say do not take if pregnant or nursing 😳
That the weather on the day of your birthday was some sort of indication of how good you had been as a person.
That the world is fair and you can be successful by treating people with humility and respect
If I didn’t fall asleep, the morning would never arrive lol, yeah stupid little me back then.
That adults knew what they were doing.
I used to believe that cars automatically started moving when the traffic light turned green.
I realized that wasn’t true the day someone honked because we weren’t moving at the green light 😅
That you had to pee in a girl to get them pregnant
One time I was busting for a wee when my aunty was driving and asked her to pull into a motel or something. She pointed at the sign and said, see how that says no vacancy? That means there’s no toilets. I deadset believed this until I was 13 because I just took it and never thought anything of it. LOL
That businesses worked for our good
I read a question/answer thing once about what cashiers were looking for when deciding about accepting a personal check… the answer included a line about the safest people to accept checks from were “well dressed men buying staples”… for years I thought they meant literal staples like you’d put in a stapler… I was much older than I should’ve been when I realized they meant milk, bread, eggs, etc…
That the moon was made of cheese; I loved watching by Wallace and Gromit – simpler times.
Kind of NSFW
But I used to think my dad “peed” inside my stepmom. I told my older brother once that it was convenient if you were married because as a man, if you needed to pee, you could just do it inside your wife.
My brother only smiled, and told me “That’s not how it works.”
Dogs are boys and cats are girls
That I didn’t get a gift from Santa when I was 8 cos I’ve been a naughty kid. Turns out we’re just poor cos my dad’s a gambling addict.
When actors on a tv show got married, I thought that ceremony meant they were married in real life. Silly kid that I was, knew they were actors but had no idea about marriage licenses and whatnot.
That I could control the weather, specifically the rain 🤷♀️
That everyone is equal
Tooth fairy
All dogs were boys and all cats were girls
I thought that when they say “you may now kiss the bride” in wedding ceremonies, that the kiss itself is what made them married. So I basically thought anytime two people kissed, if they were t already married, they were after that.
that all cats were girls & all dogs were boys
I’ve had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder since I was a little kid, so there’s a lot of weird things I believed.
“If you eat (certain food item), everyone you love will die and it will be your fault.”
“Hold your breath when passing the cemetery, or you’ll inhale the spirits and get possessed”
“You will die any second. Go to the school office and call your dad at work to tell him you love him one last time.”
“The house pet (who only stays inside) has rabies. You will die.”
“The TV is watching you.”
“You’re in a Truman show situation”
This was a constant battle until I got put on meds at 23.
I used to think the full moon would bring werewolves or vampires 😭
That I’ll be happier as an adult.
That if I swallowed chewing gum I’d die
That all adults are mature and don’t act like children
People in positions of power have intelligence and got there by merit. Wow was I wrong 😕
I saw Cornish game hens in the grocery store and immediately assumed they were Thanksgiving turkeys for lonely single people.
I genuinely though everything i was watching on my tv was happening right inside my tv as i watched it. Of course we had a masssssive box tv and 4yo me figured it had to be there for a reason.
That when I pressed rewind on my remote, the show I was watching had some kind of alert letting them know they had to do the moment again
The world is flat and the USA capital is in Washington State 🤣
Mom’s friend told us that hiccups are caused by a tiny mouse that lives in your tummy and hiccups happen when he pokes you with an umbrella 🤣
That your ‘brain water’ can run out of your ears, because my mother made a stupid joke when I was little, w/o clearing it up…
That my parents where heroes
That pennywise the clown would crawl up my bathtub drain, causing me to avoid being near the drain for many years 😂
That the US was worth giving my life health and mental stability for.
What the Fuk was I thinking?
That in the olden days, life was really in black and white.
That clouds brought night. There always seemed to be clouds on the horizon at dusk. I dunno, it just made sense. I don’t even remember when I stopped thinking it, it wasn’t like it was something I learned otherwise about, it just disappeared.
You could only hunt snipes at night.
A carpenter was someone who installed carpets.
I think a lot of people probably heard this one growing up: it’s illegal for your parents to drive the car while the light was on inside.
I loved reading as a kid and when it would get dark, I’d want to turn the light on inside the cab… oh no, don’t do that, we will get pulled over by the cops.
WHY DID SO MANY PARENTS TELL US THIS?!?!.
If I turned on the fan vent thingy in the bathroom the gremlins from the 1984 gremlins movie would climb through the vents and kill me however every time I flushed It would reset them
That I was talking to my grandmas cat on the phone when I called her! I believed the cat was really meowing back until I was like 14 and realized it was her meowing at me the whole time lol
When they said a convict got “Life plus ten years” that when they died they left the body in the cell for another ten years.
There was a large bear under my blankets and if I opened the door to basement, a tiger would rush me.
Also if I closed my eyes trying to hide from someone it meant they couldn’t see me since I couldn’t see them
-I thought that if I had to pee really bad and I ate something it would absorb it.
As a child, I took “drinking and driving” literally. Being 4 or 5 in the backseat of my aunt’s car and watching her drink a mcdonalds pop sent me into a panic. She thought it was hilarious but kindly explained to me it meant alcohol and driving lmao.
I wanna say bionicle but idk im still not convinced
That the soul was an actual organ shaped like the liver and hanging out in the guts somewhere.
My mom tried to explain how a baby is made in kid terms. She said there’s an egg, kinda like the size of a little peanut from the mom, and there’s something like a fish from the dad. So when they meet up inside mom’s belly, it makes a baby.
I thought that’s why we don’t mix nuts with fish in our cooked dishes and eat them.
I believed that humans were made of thread and that when we had a wound they would have to sew us again like a shirt HAHAHA
I thought men could only drive and would find it weird when I saw a woman driving.
I thought people came out of the womb fully clothed, since everyone always had clothes on and treated being naked like it was weird or temporary. I also thought that my dad was older than my mom because he was bigger so he must have been born before her and started growing first. In a similar assumption based on anecdotally observed correlation, my three year-old was telling me that he still had his name because he didn’t grow bigger like me but when he gets bigger then his name will be Daddy like me. While explaining it, he was clearly sad—but accepting of the fact—that you have to give up your name at a certain size and have to go by “Daddy” or “Mommy” depending on your gender.
That the music coming from our radio was a live band. I thought how do they get all those people to play so many songs. Now this was am radio only way before fm
That white dogs did white dog poos
One day we would be just a film series or a tv show and that Toy Story would be real life.
That everyone would find reciprocated romantic love eventually
That all families owned their own business.
No, despite how pretentious that all sounds my family owned a single mom and pop pizzeria. And I had very few friends whose parents also happened to own their own modest small business. I wouldn’t say I was a dumb kid, just sheltered.
some kid at my church told me that if i ate a marshmallow off of the ground i’d grow hair in my throat. i’m pretty sure he just wanted the marshmallows to himself.
i obviously know that’s not true, but i still won’t eat any marshmallows that have been on the floor
That you wake up every morning with no previous memories
My dad told me that if I ate my toast crusts, I’d be able to whistle.
That the second wife/husband was always the step parent. My uncle was married before, and I automatically assumed she was my cousins’ mom, and not my aunt. That was not the case. They’re all older than me except one, so I thought all of the drama happened before I was born.
That Head & Shoulders shampoo was for washing your hair and your shoulders.
most people that lived in Texas wore cowboy boots/hats and used horses as transportation and in reality I’ve seen it more in rural indiana (Amish) than I ever did in Texas.
That girls also had dicks
That a woman would get pregnant when she kissed the groom on the altar during their wedding.
Santa Claus the tooth fairy the Easter Bunny and Jesus.
When I was really little, I would cry whenever anyone blew a bubble with their bubblegum as I thought it was their insides coming out. I’d also cry anytime someone ate a Snickers bar because I thought the caramel was snot.🤷♀️
I once wish to climbe a Cloud which I saw on a little hill. As I was in the peak of the hill I realised the cloud ist above the next Hill and I just have to walk up on this Hill to finally climbe the Clouds.. but I was fear to run too far away from Home and decided to do not because it could bring worry to my Mom and let it be…
That some weirdo with wings and a wand came into my room at night, and traded me a few bucks for the tooth I lost earlier that day…
Wtf kind of acid laced fever dream of an idea even is that?
That hell laid beneath the pealing linoleum in our kitchen floor
I believed the overflow holes in the sink led to the sewer, and the sewer had alligators. So, I would splash water into the hole to tease the alligators. Lmao
my mom told me if I didn’t brush my teeth before bed, that the sugar around my mouth will attract roaches, and they’ll lick the sugar off.
When I first started watching Donny and Marie Osmond, I thought they were husband & wife, not siblings. I thought Marie married into the singing family. 😆
Detroit was another part of New York City. My dad would often do day trips there, and would talk about having to go to Detroit in the morning. (He worked in Manhattan). I just thought it was another borough of NYC.
All cats were girls and all dogs were boys.
No idea. No idea how I thought that worked, but it was well known in my mind.
At a centennial parade they had a large group of people in Victorian clothing, I swore they used a time machine to bring those people from 1866 back for the parade!
Sex is when you touch fronts
That the world was fair
I was terrified of the rapture. My parents were in their “born again” phase during my childhood.
My seven year old was telling me a few weeks ago about all the rocket trails (contrails)in the sky. I kind of liked his idea of a world with rockets flying around everyday
When I was about 4, my mum told me she was the woman in the video for Meatloaf’s ‘I Would Do Anything for Love (but I Won’t Do That’. Believed that for most of my childhood.
Had to sleep with my hand covering my ear so the Animorph slugs didn’t go in there at night
There were monsters under my bed, but not under my little sister’s. We shared a room, and our beds touched in an L shape. Somehow there was a boundary that they could reach through but not cross. My sister was very pleased to hear that! She was less pleased when I crawled across her to get back into my own bed.
That babies were injected into a woman’s stomach by a doctor
That cops are good, that politicians work for us…..
That if you had a non visual knowledge, horror type bad guys can’t get you.
To mean, in movies like Freddy Kruger, he always pops up behind you to reveal when you look. If you know he isn’t there for sure, he can’t be there.
So like if you turn over in bed, if you put your arm behind you, there’s no space for the bad guy to appear.
In 4th grade, our teacher explained that the umbilical cord of the child is linked to the mother and provides all the nutrients. I asked where it was located, and the teacher said dryly that it was at the navel.
I grew up believing that the baby’ navel is linked to the mother’s navel through the umbilical cord. I could not fathom how this would provide the child with anything other than air, but I never doubted my teacher’s words.
I realised very, very late that the cord goes to the placenta, which made way more sense but was way less funny to imagine.
The cucuy LIVED at walmart and was watching for us.
That as I got older, people were definitely going to be nicer, kinder, and smarter. WRONG.
That pictures could see me.
Women give birth via their butthole. Some neighbor girls, when I was 8 or so, were talking secretly. One of them must have just got “the sex talk” from her mom. I kept begging them to tell me what they were whispering about. Finally one said “babies come out of a lady’s butt.” At the time it seemed to make perfect sense to me. Not till a few years later when me and some guy were looking at a porn magazine (stolen from his dad) did I learn the truth when he pointed to a woman’s vagina and said “that’s where you put you d*ck then later the baby comes out”.
Bubble gum doesn’t digest and sits in your stomach. You can’t swim within 30 minutes of eating.
Random but I just watched a documentary on it and hadn’t followed the story since it happened in the 90s. I was a young and very naive teenager at the time. I genuinely believed that everyone saw Monica Lewinsky as a victim and she had a voice. I had zero clue she also was put into legal trouble for lying for him. And I didn’t realize people hated her and called her names because they believed she tried to hurt the president’s career. Granted most of my take on the situation came from Oprah. I also had no idea what exactly was special about the dress or what sex act did happen. Again SUPER naive. I think it’s weird because other people my age understood way more about the scandal and got Monica was treated poorly.
I also as a kid up until Clinton scandal believed Watergate had to do with actual water. That it was something to do with exposing something to do with water. I didn’t get more specific in my thoughts just water was involved. That’s weird because why wouldn’t I acquire more details before settling on water.
My bed was pushed up against the wall and I would sleep as close to the edge away from the wall as I could because I thought skeletons would come up from the wall side. I have no idea why I had that fear but it was real, and lasted for a while.
If someone crosses my legs when I am sleeping/ laying down my height growth will stop unless they do it again to undo it
I thought everything on tv was real, and that anime or cartoons were a realm to another dimension that we for some reason have footage of.
I was 6 lol
That pee came out of my lady hole.
Had no idea it had its own hole until I first used a mirror as a teenager.
Thank you Bible Belt upbringing 😶
I believed cauliflower was vanilla broccoli 🤦🏽♀️
Ciara had a dick
“Don’t drink and drive” meant any beverage.
until like 3 years ago i thought cans of tuna were a mix of the unwanted parts of different fish
Back then, I thought that kissing would make a girl pregnant. Dang these TV drama series
UK: Aged around 5 I was accompanying my parents around a furniture store and saw one I liked.
I reached into my pocket for the correct change and made my way over to the till. Through this attempted transaction I discovered that it’s called a “Three Piece Suite” not “3p suite”.
Pregnant women had swallowed a watermelon seed! 😆
My mother was diabolical in the best way. She told all of us kids, including the neighborhood kids, that when you lost a tooth, if you didn’t stick your tongue in the hole, it would grow in a gold tooth.
It was the 70s. We believed anything.
That a man had to pee on a woman to her get her pregnant/was sex.
Me telling my parents id never drink or do drugs. I hit puberty and made it my mission to try everything i could get my hands on.
That sleeping in the same bed as someone of the opposite sex would make you pregnant.
That people were genuinely friendly
That all dogs were male and all cats were female!
That teachers slept at the school.
When I was a kid my cousin told me that inside every popcorn kernel there’s a little devil, and when you heat him up he gets mad and POPS, and that’s how we get popcorn. Believed it for years.
When I was really young I thought there was this pair of women spirits that would check on kids at 3:00 AM to make sure they’re sleeping.
No one ever told me this. I think I came to this realization one night because in my half dream/half awake state I thought they had visited me.
Read this to my wife. She said there was a girl down the street when she was growing up who had big nostrils. Her dad told her it was because she picked her nose.
I didn’t really get weddings. I thought there was literally a 50/50 chance that either person would say yes. I didn’t get that the engagements were usually long and both people already knew they wanted to get married. So when the priest would say “do you take…” and the person would say “I do” I would be so relieved.
I thought cigarettes that had an orange filter was for women and the white filters were for men
Also when I was 4-5 there was an Asian women holding on umbrella in the sun and I asked my mom why she was holding it , and my mom said it’s only raining on them. And I believe it
That there were these little crab-like creatures in the forest with suction cups instead of claws. Their suction cups were so powerful that they could suck you into the forest from a very long distance, due to some powerful reverse air wave emitted from the cups. Once they got hold of you they would suck all the blood out of your body.
My best friend at the time had a very vivid imagination, and I was kind of dumb so I believed this was true 😂
i thought that the food you swallowed traveled down your front then went around to your back to be pooped out 💀
If you unscrew your belly button, your bum will fall off.
Where do I begin? Quicksand, spontaneous human combustion, the list goes on and on.
I believed that a Broadway show meant one that took place on Broadway Street in my town (which was nowhere near New York).
I thought my eyes didn’t move for the longest time because I couldn’t see them move in the mirror.
God.🌊
That the space rockets were built in the Astrodome in Houston.
I thought trees created wind. They’re moving, it’s windy. Like giant fans.
That there was a guy who sat in an office controlling all the traffic lights!
A friend of mine after reading The Witches believed all chocolate was laced with the witches potion to turn people into mice and the friend avoided chocolate at all costs.
2 from my catalog of odd beliefs-
I thought all people with dark brown hair were from NY. I thought we were one of each animal- a squirrel, a cow, etc. (I strongly believed this one, no idea where it came from).
i thought life used to exist in black and white.
life would be easier if i was an adult.
Quicksand! It was all over movies and we never questioned it
My mum would always tell me when I was a kid that if I didn’t dry my hair properly, the water would seep into my brain and make me insane.
It took me until 9 years old to realise that that, along with about 1000 other stuff my mum said, was BS.
Funniest part is, my mum wasn’t the type of lady to lie about that type of thing to kids. She genuinely believed it. Still does, actually – she’s also not the type of person who believes she could be proven wrong by someone younger than her.
That despite how shitty my life was that one day it would all work out and I’d find love and happiness but I still feel just as lost and worthless.