facade 1,947 Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 (edited) What things did you believe as a kid or early life that you now know to be hilariously false? I used to think you could just write a check, take it to any bank and get free money. Banned posts: "I used to believe in God/religion/etc." Edited July 30, 2013 by antifairy (see edit history) Kei 1 Link to comment
Kei 1,150 Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I thought you could only marry someone if they had the same color eyes as you. It's even funnier because my parents both have blue eyes, but were never married. Link to comment
Credil 766 Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 (edited) As a very litlle kid I actucally believed the famous myth about substance being in swimming pools, lakes and so one, that turns the water pink, green, or a other unmsisstable color if someone pees in it, least until I was brave enough to prove it, wrong a few years, later. Edited December 24, 2020 by Credil (see edit history) Link to comment
Tsukasalove 9 Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I thought you could only marry someone if they had the same color eyes as you. It's even funnier because my parents both have blue eyes, but were never married. I also used to believe that i only can get married if i had a sister and currently i have two brothers, so i was worried, LOL XD Link to comment
masterminor 10 Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 I used to believe cross country runners literally ran across the country. Sad part is I just learned it was untrue last May. Link to comment
illuminaughty 9 Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 I used to think that pee wee Herman was a hermit XD (technically he is though kinda, at least I think so) Link to comment
4rtist123 33 Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 I thought that if you kiss you became pregnant or had a baby lol Link to comment
livingbylies 29 Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 I thought for the longest time that those steel cables on power lines (the ones that ran into the ground to hold them up) were electrified and would kill you if you touched them. Link to comment
DrBorderline 324 Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 I thought, very early on, that gravity functioned perpendicular to a euclidean plane in space and that there was a whole other side of the globe that was uninhabitable because people and objects would fall off into space. Granted, I didn't use those terms to describe my idea - at that age, I couldn't have pronounced "euclidean". I drew up this elaborate system of suction cups, scaffolding, hot air balloons and hang gliders to allow colonizing of the underside of earth. Well, elaborate for a four year old. My parents set me straight when I tried to explain the idea. Could have done without the hysterical laughter, though. Link to comment
ILoveMalfoys 8 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I used to think that t.v stars where the people they played in movies. I kinda wish they where . Link to comment
Another_Human 25 Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 I believed in Santa Like most kids. Link to comment
effiethefish 5 Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 I used to believe there were these mysterious spirits living in the curtains of my bedroom windows, and sometimes I had to hide because I thought they were going to kill me. I think I got the idea from when my mother had the windows open when I was taking a nap and they were moving around and making weird noises in the wind. Link to comment
masterminor 10 Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 I used to believe I was an Airbender. Link to comment
Teflon34 341 Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 I was playing with toy trucks under a maple tree during what I now know was a partial solar eclipse, one afternoon when I was 5 or 6. I ran back to the house to tell my mom that there were moons under the "driveway tree". She was not as interested in this as I was. What I was seeing was a pinhole camera effect on all the small sunbeams that penetrated the foliage. ... Maybe a long winded way of saying I thought there were moons under a tree ... Link to comment
M1ndblow 100 Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 I believed that russian cosmonauts made it to the moon. Of course the guys from NASA were there first ones, but I thought that they at least made it there at all. To be honest this is something that I found out was wrong about two weeks ago... Link to comment
KayLeigh 327 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 >.> My father's name is Joseph. Until I was about 10, I wholeheartedly believed that my mother's name was Mary. It was Lyn. <.< Link to comment
yamiyamo 0 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 I believed my parents when they said to me that I drew very well :lol: I believed that adults could steal me my nose I believed that if I did not eat soup I would never grow up I believed that US people ate only hamburger Link to comment
DrBorderline 324 Posted August 28, 2013 Share Posted August 28, 2013 -The Space Race was a literal race between space ships. I never thought that, but I always thought it would have been better if it was. Might have helped with funding research. It could have ended up like NASCAR with sponsors and everything. We could have had a base on the moon by the time 2001 A Space Odyssey predicted with that kind of money going into R&D. Only downside is we'd end up naming bases after sponsors. Coca Cola Observatory, Goodyear Lunar Seismology Center, and so on. Link to comment
Medieval Genie 207 Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 I believed (when I was VERY young) that 1 + 1 = 11. I believed that the tooth fairy was real and that she/it didn't give me enough money for what were essentially body parts. I believed that Sata Claus had actually given me that letter that was made in Microsoft Word. I believed I would grow up to be a train driver, because steam trains were an obsession of mine at the time. I believed that the sun was "too big to be a star". Link to comment
gargoyleguy 57 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Two things, first that when you eat something it goes down into your feet, and that phones were like a series of connected tubes. I actually tried blowing air into receivers thinking the people on the other side would feel the wind. Link to comment
whitwetwhat 27 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I used to think that much like film and television, everything was in black and white until the 60s. Like, I would picture my parents' childhoods and they weren't in color. I honestly still do sometimes. I also thought that the pictures in the hallway of my great grandparents were God and his wife. DlavalD 1 Link to comment
Crona 62 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 (edited) I used to think anime was real and was happening some place in our world. I wish it was.....most times. (Sometimes watching anime i still get lost in it and forget it is not real. : ( I wish there was some Syfy like thing what could bean you into any anime/TV show you wanted even if it was forever.) Edited September 16, 2013 by Crona (see edit history) Link to comment
HPattern 192 Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 I used to wonder how people ever parked their cars if they had a stick shift... My parents always drove automatics so my knowledge of stick shifts was purely theoretical at that point... I understood most of it, but still thought that if you were in a car, ANY car, you HAD to put it in park! I would try to mentally picture a manual with a 1, 2, 3, and so on, but I couldn't figure out where the P for park would go... It would drive me crazy, but I never thought to ask my parents about it... Link to comment
Medieval Genie 207 Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 Hah! Anything but a manual ("stick-shift") would seem like some foreign space-car-nonsense during my childhood. Even today, Britain uses manual cars almost exclusively. Apart from the ones I posted earlier, I of course though that women were biologically the same as men besides breasts, and that stuff like "sitting down to pee" was them being weak and unmanly. I also used to think that beards were for much older and wiser people, of course I was right in thinking that stroking your beard gives a surge of wisdom, and it is a very useful feature. My dad told me that he used to think that movie bad guys were ACTUALLY KILLED, and they were criminals that had TV appearance as their punishment. That sounds like the sort of idea Oliver Cromwell would come up with!!! Link to comment
M1ndblow 100 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I believed that beeing Santa Claus was a regular job. Link to comment
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