Dumbest thing you believe as a child?

[Chicken Drummer]

I believed when a footballer was rested it meant he had been arrested.

[Grimbold21]

The usual clichê of when actors died in movies, they died for real.

[beanman12345]

"Step on a crack, break your mothers back"

scared the crap outta me.

[Templar 331]

That babies come out of a woman's butt, because I had no idea what was in the front.

[Yunru]

That as a human we were immortal and then i learned biology at school.

[Wilfire]

Our teacher in 1st grade used to tell us that she would spy on us through our TV screens & make sure we were doing our homework.

Little did I know that a few decades down the line, I would actually be getting spied on by every device in my house.

[Rustedsaint]

I used to believe that the characters in cartoons were actors in costumes instead of drawings

[StayTuned]

That you could look at the out of screen area of a TV if you tried looking at it from above, or the side.

I tried looking under the skirt of an actress by crawling under the TV.

Wtf was wrong with me

[Shadowferal]

Father once said that there were orchards on the moon. I was skeptical, but it did excite my imagination.
He also said that when you get older doctors fix your ass so you never fart again. That kinda worried me.

[Orange Joe]

That a man could walk on water

[Egomaniac]

The usual clichê of when actors died in movies, they died for real.

That's usual where you come from?

[Shadowferal]

That's usual where you come from?

Where most movies are snuff films!

omg

[Nihilist74]

When I was pretty young in 2nd or 3rd grade, I could see the lights from Norad from my bedroom window at night. On Christmas Eve night I thought it was Santa Claus flying in his sled.
I another thing I thought was when they said a football player was a veteran that they were soldiers in the Vietnam war.

[some guy]

That there is a sky wizard who controls everything.

[Graeham]

That drinking alcohol made you drunk immediately.

[Felya]

That when I’m 6, I’d have 6 fingers on each hand.

[Adam Jensen]

That Bob Dole would ban milk if he won the election.

Which is why first grade (or whatever grade it was) me rooted for Bill Clinton.

- - - Updated - - -

That a man could walk on water

It's actually not that hard to accomplish.

I mean . . . no one said I couldn't freeze it first.

[smityx]

Funniest dumb thing I can remember back when I was a toddler was thinking the the sun and moon were the same thing. One side was the sun and the other moon and it just rotated to show one side or the other.

[monkfailz]

That there was a Santa Clause.

[Stelio Kontos]

That adults knew what they were doing.

Growing up and seeing how government and business operate, I realized that was a dumb belief. We're usually even more confused than we were as children.