Stupid things you believed as a kid

[Robot Number V]

As a child I believed people could potentially be worth wile.

The naive nature of childhood I guess.

Oooh. That was so edgy I almost...Wait, you know what? I was gonna make some kind of "edge" pun, but I think I'll just post this image instead.

You know, because you're so edgy.

OT: Well....Like most kids, I had a hard time imagining that things existed before I did. So I thought that movie theaters were invented around the same time I saw I movie in one for the first time. At one point, I also thought that real life was supposed to look like a cartoon, and there was something wrong with my eyes because I couldn't see the little black lines around everything.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I used to believed that milk came from plant just because this flower had white liquid when I broke the stern (I think it was a dandy lion or not?) that is until I tasted that white liquid...

 

[Infernai]

I thought people used to live in black and white.

Oh my God, me too!

Same here!

There was one time when i was still under the age of ten (Can't remember exactly when) when i had ended up learning about the big bang theory (NOT THE SHOW DAMNIT!)

Naturally i was a bit confused about how an explosion created the world and the universe so i went to one of my cousins about it and tried to get him to explain it. He actually tried to explain it after i pressed him and i naturally got lost...eventually my cousin decided on this little idea:

He basically said the earth was formed because The autobots and decepticons fought. They fought this final battle and it ended with EVERY Decepticon and Autobot punching with all the power they had at the same time. Strangely, all their fists collided with one another and this caused an explosion so great it not only destroyed both of them but it caused the remains of the autobots and decepticons to become the planets and the moon. He explained the sun was what was left of the explosion, and that because all planets are made from the autobots AND decepticons that it was the source of all the metal in the world.

I ended up believing this for a little while...i still think it's one of the best creation myths ever.

 

[DrunkenMonkey]

For the longest time I believed that the sounds coming from my walls were the walls speaking to me, little did I know that were my neighbors. (This was when I was a kid of course...)

 

[Evil Smurf]

I thought that:
1. alcohol was an evil poison
2. gay people did not exist, they were just a fairy tale.
3. Mum had magic bowls which were always filled with custard.

 

[Griffolion]

For some reason I thought that orange juice gave you diarrhea. I still keep my intake very monitored even now...

Oh and some pretentious, snarky comment about religion to make myself feel intellectually buff.

Yeah, I used "buff". Whatcha gon' do?

 

[CrazyGirl17]

When I was younger, I believed that blowing on dandelions would grant wishes, and I used to wish that the dinosaurs would come back.

...I was a stupid kid, okay?!

 

[Zeldias]

I assumed women peed out of their butts as a child, since I knew they didn't have penises, but didn't know about vaginas. I knew women sat to pee, so my logical conclusion was they pee out of their butts.

I also thought making out meant having sex. And I thought doggystyle sex was anal only.

For something not sex-related...

I got nothin'. I wasn't under that many illusions about other things as a kid. Other than your usual culturally-ingrained sexism and stupid immature notions of race.

 

[Vault101]

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

I'm guessing the parents were too "god knows what" for that

even then, even without any information youd have to know somthing was up

 

[Palademon]

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

I'm guessing the parents were too "god knows what" for that

even then, even without any information youd have to know somthing was up

I'm guessing they lived in an area where sex ed wasn't mandatory schooling.

We learnt it every two years since being 8.
Not sure why it took so long to teach us though. Sex ed is basically just about fertilisation, and later a little about health. I guess they didn't want young people knowing that deep early on.

 

[aXFireXHeartXa]

Two things:

1 - Every horror movie I watched, I believed that the murderer got into my house somehow every night and was lurking in the dark, waiting for me to leave my room to kill me.

2 - My sisters would tell me that I was adopted and my real parents were aliens named Na Na and Ta Ta and were coming back to get me in their spaceship.

 

[Vault101]

I'm guessing they lived in an area where sex ed wasn't mandatory schooling.

We learnt it every two years since being 8.
Not sure why it took so long to teach us though. Sex ed is basically just about fertilisation, and later a little about health. I guess they didn't want young people knowing that deep early on.

but this isnt sex ed...this is knowing guys and girls have different parts....I cant remember a time where I didnt know that, I dont think I knew what sex was untill I was 10

which is why it completly baffles me how somone can reach 18 and not know that boys and girls have different parts,

 

[Palademon]

but this isnt sex ed...this is knowing guys and girls have different parts....I cant remember a time where I didnt know that, I dont think I knew what sex was untill I was 10

which is why it completly baffles me how somone can reach 18 and not know that boys and girls have different parts,

I know it's not a complicated thing.
I just know that you wouldn't be able to go through sex ed without knowing that. Because that was the only age based cue I could think of.

 

[Queen Michael]

Got another pretty common one, always flirted with the notion that i was the only real human on earth and everyone else was a robot or part of some elaborate dream, still think like that sometimes

isnbt that what they call sociopathy? or psychopathy?

It's what they call "Knowing way more about the plan than he's meant to."

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I didn't know the meaning behind the songs Master of Puppets (Metallica), Flying High Again(Ozzy), Crazy Babies (Ozzy), Sweet Leaf (Black Sabbath) and many other songs about drugs until relatively late. I found out about Master of Puppets being about drugs in middle school (2002 or so). I found out about Flying High Again being about drugs a few months ago (I'm nearly 25).

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When you die, if you've lived a long enough life, you're given a Tardis-like room which is infinitely large where you are able to create your own universe. Once made you are free to shrink down or scale up to interact with your own little creations.

I thought Dungeons and Dragons was something that people used to do before video games and, once Video Games became a big thing in homes, everybody stopped playing D&D forever. I didn't think I would ever play a game of D&D or anything similar and I'm glad I was wrong about that.

Cartoon and Comic characters existed. Furthermore I thought Clowns were their own sub-species of humanity.

Finding out that we as humans didn't have colonies on the Moon or Mars was probably worse for me than finding out Santa Clause didn't exist. Finding out Dragons didn't exist was also really jarring to my young world view.

I didn't know California and/or Orlando and/or New York City was where every TV show was filmed. It disappointed me that I would probably never be on any of the shows I loved as a kid like Legend of the Hidden Temple or Nick Video Arcade...

 

[kyuzo3567]

If it counts.... my girlfriend believed that the more milk she drank as a child, the bigger her chest would be after puberty... I'f I didn't know any better I'd say it was true

 

[darlarosa]

By collecting enough spit and scabs I could collect enough DNA to clone myself...by combining it with a goldfish I could make fishmen....yeah

 

[Ieyke]

i had a female friend who was unaware that men and women had different sexual organs...

haha kids-

[quote/] until she was 18

THE FUCK!!???


[quote/]that is a 100% true story and the lady in question is far from mentally challenged, she just led a sheltered life

sheltered? more like sealed inside an airtight time capsule and buried under 100feet of concrete...

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?

OT: that women and men are seen as eaqual in our society

Got another pretty common one, always flirted with the notion that i was the only real human on earth and everyone else was a robot or part of some elaborate dream, still think like that sometimes

isnbt that what they call sociopathy? or psychopathy?

Solipsism[/quote]

Er well fuck thats a new diagnosis for me! Thanks a lot!

Also you might want to add some more words (like a full definition of solipsism) to your posts so that the mods dont come after you.[/quote]
That's not a "diagnosis". Solipsism is a philosophy AND it's the ONLY valid point of view.
The only thing that you can know exists is yourself, because you think.

"Cogito Ergo Sum" - "I Think, Therefore I Am"

All other things that we experience can't be proven to exist. They could all be illusions or figments of our imaginations.
You can't even prove your own physical form exists, sine you could be imagining that too. Only your own mind can be proven TO YOU that it exists, because as it thinks, it is aware that it thinks, and in order to think it must therefor exist.

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

Well there's the basic ones:
Santa Claus
Easter Bunny
Tooth Fairy
God (only believed it because of the weekly RE teachers in school and all the bullshit guilt trips)

Then there's these.
Babies came out from the girl's belly button. (Thanks Denace the Menace)
I always healed from sores and illnesses really quickly and I thought my 'parents' were monitoring me and planning on taking me iin to a secret laboratory so that they could harvest and study my blood for it's healing properties.
Thought I was in the Matrix and everyone else was just AI that I interacted with and scientists were studying my interactions with them. (Before I ever watched the matrix)

Not exactly something I believed, but I could never pronounce 'yellow'. It always came out as lellow.

EDIT: And that my mum and dad would some day get back together... ouch.

Also that everyone was good and always thought things out including how it would impact other people. Basically I thought everyone was good and just sometimes mistaken.
I think that illusion truly broke after I watched Fox News on Youtube. Now I'm sceptical as all hell and trust no one until I can ascertain what kind of person they are for sure.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

He basically said the earth was formed because The autobots and decepticons fought. They fought this final battle and it ended with EVERY Decepticon and Autobot punching with all the power they had at the same time. Strangely, all their fists collided with one another and this caused an explosion so great it not only destroyed both of them but it caused the remains of the autobots and decepticons to become the planets and the moon. He explained the sun was what was left of the explosion, and that because all planets are made from the autobots AND decepticons that it was the source of all the metal in the world.

I finally found a religion that speaks to me, thank you prophet! Now I gotta figure out how to have services...

OT:I honestly believed that my parents knew everything in the entire world and were infallible. That may be common as it helps their raising sink in. Until I was about 8 my alarm clock scared the hell out of me, because I knew that one day Scorpion would pull me out of bed with his spear and a "Get over here!". On very rare occasions this rears its ugly head again.