Ridiculous things you thought as a child

[Super Kami Dende]

That Skin Colour didn't matter.

[Deleted]

As a kid, I always assumed that my own language was the "real" language and all everyone that didn't speak it still had to learn it.

[Raakel]

I thought that the world used to be black and white, and that colour was a recent occurrence, because old movies were black and white.

I also thought that the world has been only black and white and color was added just in recent times as anthing historical was only shown b&w ....

[Deleted]

I thought that every time I played a song on a CD, the singers were singing it live, and that they kept singing the song over and over and over again, when it was on repeat. I remember asking my friend if they wouldn't get tired of singing it all the time.

She looked at me in a funny way, to put it mildly.

[Doctor Amadeus]

That British people were all smart like Mary Poppins.

That Mary Poppins was the queen of England.

That you could change the minds of people with a vested interest in what ever issue.

Working hard paid off.

[tratra]

I thought that by playing wow and getting many epics would increase my epeen which would make my life better. It definitely didn't and I sure missed out on a few things growing up.

[Zabatakis]

When I was around 8 I saw a poster showing how aids from 1 person can spread exponentially via a flowchart assuming everyone sleeps with 2 people. I took this to mean if you slept with 2 people unprotected you got aids no question. Took a few health classes to understand that was not the case.

[Svetyac]

I thought the earth is flat and you can fall of the edge if you traveled there with a ship. Boy was I retarded

[Deleted]

Blackbirds had carrots stuck on their noses.

[Currently Retired]

I thought the earth is flat and you can fall of the edge if you traveled there with a ship. Boy was I retarded

Unlike children, adults have no excuse when they say they believe the Earth is flat

[Taittinger]

Before I could write or read I'd pretend to know how to write and read. So I'd just do scribbles on a piece of paper and tell people like my parents to read my note. I'd also pretend how to read infront my older cousins, making stuff up and I thought they believed me.

When I learned about the "bees and flowers" at like age 9, I believed that white kids were born from the vagina and black kids from the anus.

I found out that a whole day was 86400 seconds long, so I believed that if started couting as soon as I woke up and all I did the rest of the day was count from 1 to 86k I'd be one day in the future before everyone else. Dont know why i genuinely believed that..

[Wingerie]

I thought pantyliners had to be poured with blue liquid before the usage and tampons actually take the shape of woman body.

[Vargur]

Thought black people were people who had spent too much time in the sun, hence their skin being so dark.

That's literally true, but it's a product of evolution near the equator.

[sam86]

Human nature isn't pure greed evil and most ppl aren't willing to harm u for their benefits

[Sengiratolom]

That my biological dad loved me
That I flew whilst asleep, because I quite frequently had Hypnic jerks (falling sensation just prior to waking up)
Teachers and church staff were telling the truth
That stuffed animal hair would grow back
When I was +/- 3 years old that left and right where absolute directions, rather then relative ones. when i got taught to look left-right-left at traffic lights, I stretched out my left arm as a reminder and changed its direction depending on where we walked, switching to the right arm when what i perceived as "left" ended up on the other side of my body
That teeth would continue to grow, just like the rest of the body, as adults had bigger teeth.

[dwightyo39]

As a child, I saw the drunk driving commercial where the teens get into a car while partying. When they turned on the car, all of them instantly turned into skeletons. I thought that could actually happen to people with open alcohol containers in cars. I even argued with my alcoholic aunt over the subject, lol.

[Zogarth]

For a long time, i thought the number 1000 was in fact, the highest number ever achievable. I learned it was not, after a pro-longed argument with my brother about how much gold was in our Lego treasure chest, and I insisted on having a thousand, as that was much higher than his silly suggestion of something called "a million".

[namecraft]

I thought skeletons and mummies are real

[Voidism]

I thought everyone spoke swedish, just with an unintelligible accent.

[zenkai]

What's the most ridiculous thing you can remember thinking/believing as a child?

For me it was when I was 6 and we were flying to America. We had to stop and refuel and for whatever reason we didn't get off, I was convinced we had landed on a cloud and was refuelling at a floating petrol station in the sky.

Another example is my brother, first time he travelled to Scotland my dad told him Haggis was in-fact small furry creatures living in trees. Throughout the holiday he would look for Haggis and convince himself he saw some climbing trees.

I thought all adults were mature and wise.