Stupid things you believed as a kid

[Entourian]

I used to believe that butterflies had teeth and were the equivalent of flying piranhas. I have no idea how i came to believe that.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

I use to eat the whole fruit, so my mother told me that if I consumed too many fruit seeds, a tree would grow in my stomach and out of my mouth. I had my doubts about that one, but, it was still weird enough to make me worried about it.

Oh, me too! It was mostly an apple thing. I was never 100% sure it was true either but it was definitely enough to make me wary. Chewing gum was another one. I think my mum played that one up a little but I believed if you swallowed it you would get really ill and have to have it removed from your stomach. To this day, I avoid the stuff!

Also, when colour television was invented, my grandma apparently believed that if you turned the TV set off and back on again too soon all the colour would drain out. I still laugh at that one.

 

[lechat]

I use to eat the whole fruit, so my mother told me that if I consumed too many fruit seeds, a tree would grow in my stomach and out of my mouth. I had my doubts about that one, but, it was still weird enough to make me worried about it.

Oh, me too! It was mostly an apple thing. I was never 100% sure it was true either but it was definitely enough to make me wary.
smip

apple seeds actually contain arsenic so while a tree may not grow in your stomach, assuming you munched on enough of them you would die and a tree might grow on your grave so she was sorta right

 

[Fuzzed]

Penis size doesn't matter

 

[Beautiful End]

1. Monsters - I loved reading about monsters (still do) but I thought they were real. Fun times.

2. Santa Claus - Believing in a nigh omniscient patriarch who punishes you for being naughty and rewards you for being nice. Silly parents, that's not a good way to get your children to act good.

3. The Christian God - Believing in a nigh omniscient patriarch who punishes you for being naughty and rewards you for being nice. Silly parents, that's not a good way to get your children to act good.

Dang it! Can't believed I was ninja'd on the very first post, almost word by word! What the hell? D:<

EDIT: In my case, it's not sarcasm, people! And I'm not attacking religious people. To each their own but in my case, I concur with this statement, joke or not.

OT: Alright, let me think, then:

-I was destined to be a special being. I just needed to be patient for my flying/fire powers to kick in.
-Power Rangers existed. Yes, as in past tense.
-White people ate vanilla-flavored stuff and black people ate chocolate-flavored stuff.
-Toys were real. pretty much Toy Story.
-All history of this world had occurred in the last 100 years or so. Therefore, I assumed my mom grew up with dinosaurs. She wasn't pleased with that statement.
-I though Pokemon would be real, or at least they were gonna be real someday.
-When my mom got a haircut, I thought she had been switched for someone else who looked a lot like her.

I believed that my friend had a Digimon come out of his computer and become his companion. On a similar vein I also believed that if I wrote a letter to Santa with pictures of my Digimon he would make it for me for christmas. I was 8 or 9 at the time

That's pretty close to what I believed. After watching Digimon Tamers, I believe that if I created a Digimon and put my heart and soul into it, he would come to life.
Only I was like 13.

I still got the drawing of my Digimon, though.

 

[Mick Beard]

 

[Seydaman]

Hm, I thought MILF meant orgasm. That was weird, finding out I was wrong.

Otherwise, the tooth fairy, I'm sure there's more, but I can't recall.

 

[A.A.K]

I believed my Dad was Goku, and the boogeyman existed.
10 years later... I now know the boogeyman exists but is on good terms with me, and Dad is better than Goku.

 

[Da Orky Man]

I thought people used to live in black and white.

Oh my God, me too!

Same here!

Figure this one out; all my earliest memories ARE in black and white. I have no idea why, or how they came to do that, but they just are.

 

[SuperImperial]

I was REALLY stupid as a kid. Here are some examples...
1. "Having sex is against the law".
2.:"People used to live in black and white".
3. "Atheists hate god".
4."The tooth fairy".
5."The Easter bunny".
6. "Aliens don't exist".
7."Japan and china are same country and, everything there is made out of wood"

 

[secretkeeper12]

I was REALLY stupid as a kid. Here are some examples...
1. "Having sex is against the law".
2.:"People used to live in black and white".
3. "Atheists hate god".
4."The tooth fairy".
5."The Easter bunny".
6. "Aliens don't exist".
7."Japan and china are same country and, everything there is made out of wood"

Post date: March 20th
Join date: March 21st
Conclusion: Dr. Who is real!

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I thought Star Wars was... I guess the best way to put it was some kind of documentary.
I didn't believe that the events actually happened, but I thought some studio built the Death Star and all the different ships and stuff and put it all in space. Everything they did in the planets was ON LOCATION and they simply used the alien actors there to move along the story. And I had no idea how they shot the exterior of X-Wings moving along the Death Star; I would be like "What ship are THEY in that can move that fast?!"
It was some weird kind of half-belief where basically the events DIDN'T happen, but everything that made it up DID.

Also, that spiders are more scared of you than you are of them.
True? False?
I don't know but I don't believe it.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I was REALLY stupid as a kid. Here are some examples...
1. "Having sex is against the law".
2.:"People used to live in black and white".
3. "Atheists hate god".
4."The tooth fairy".
5."The Easter bunny".
6. "Aliens don't exist".
7."Japan and china are same country and, everything there is made out of wood"

*sees join date vs post date*

neo, what are you doinnnnn?!?!

neoo, STAHPPPP!


OT:

used to believe (well...VERY Wishful thinking) that the power rangers were real, or at least possible.
I believed that if everyone ran to the west at the same time, we could change the earths rotation speed
I used to believe I'd be able to hook computer parts up to my veins in the same fashion that they hook up to electricity...(never have I been so wrong meme here)

I'm sure there are plenty more, just not thinking of any at the moment.

 

[piinyouri]

That when you die you are reborn as a new person.
This was before I had been exposed to anything that could have planted the traditional conception of reincarnation.

 

[Crises^]

When I was very young I used to think that animals talked to each other when we weren't around, as in spoke in Human speak.
Also got told by my mom that when i was flying on a plane at like 3 years old asking where the care bears were as I couldn't see them XD

 

[Galletea]

My dad has always had a beard. A big dark full beard. When I was 4, he shaved it off and I didn't recognise him was was quite distraught at the stranger in the house. After I had decided that it was indeed my dad, I questioned the whereabouts of the aforementioned facial topiary. I was told, very seriously, that because it was such a windy day, the wind had blown it off his face.
I spent a good half hour in the garden looking for it.

Other than that, the usual stuff, tooth fairy, santa, that I could be a fighter pilot, or a wizard.

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

I thought that if you jumped off a building and landed on your feet you'd be fine. Luckily I didn't test my theory.

 

[Angie7F]

I used to believe that I would be able to practice black magic.
I wanted to learn to make potions and stuff.

 

[Strazdas]

I was REALLY stupid as a kid. Here are some examples...
1. "Having sex is against the law".
2.:"People used to live in black and white".
3. "Atheists hate god".
4."The tooth fairy".
5."The Easter bunny".
6. "Aliens don't exist".
7."Japan and china are same country and, everything there is made out of wood"

Post date: March 20th
Join date: March 21st
Conclusion: Dr. Who is real!

his post says 158 POSTED: 21 March 2013 2:30 am
Must be your regional settings, he seems to have joined around midnight (my regional settings are europe so mine may beo ff too as it seems it shows the "posted" time in your local time.

Actually the way Escapist counts time got me a bit confusing. the "Days to expo" counter actually changes days around midday for me, so i login in morning, everything fine, after im back form lucnh bam 1 day closer and i was like WTF did i just teleport into the future.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

My dad has always had a beard. A big dark full beard. When I was 4, he shaved it off and I didn't recognise him was was quite distraught at the stranger in the house. After I had decided that it was indeed my dad, I questioned the whereabouts of the aforementioned facial topiary. I was told, very seriously, that because it was such a windy day, the wind had blown it off his face.
I spent a good half hour in the garden looking for it.

Other than that, the usual stuff, tooth fairy, santa, that I could be a fighter pilot, or a wizard.

When I was 2 or 3 didn't speak to my mum for two weeks after she cut her hair...I was convinced she was an imposter.

My sister told me the green glow from the street lights at night were aliens coming to get me. I didn't quite believe her but I wasn't 100% sure