Childish Misunderstanding
SabotageinStilettos
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What’s the silliest thing you recall misunderstanding as a child?
Drinking and driving. I legitimately thought that meant that you could not partake in any beverage while driving a car and I would get so paranoid when my dad would bring a mug of coffee into the car. He didn’t even try to hide it!
Drinking and driving. I legitimately thought that meant that you could not partake in any beverage while driving a car and I would get so paranoid when my dad would bring a mug of coffee into the car. He didn’t even try to hide it!
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The glove compartment in the car. I thought it was the glove department until I was like 10.
Also the phrase "I have to piss like a rushing race horse". I thought it was a "Russian race horse"2 -
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We always passed this building called "Camping World" and I thought it was an indoor camp site.
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I didn't fully understand Quantum Modeling until I was like seven years old; sheesh... did I feel dumb.
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Well quick sand turned out to be less of a problem than I thought it would be. Also, no falling anvils from the sky to have maneuver.7
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SabotageinStilettos wrote: »I thought babies came out of belly buttons until my older brother horrified with the dirty truth at age 9.
I gotta tell ya, the belly button sounds even worse.2 -
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SabotageinStilettos wrote: »I thought babies came out of belly buttons until my older brother horrified with the dirty truth at age 9.
My mom told me that one. It might been when I actually learned where they did come from that I decided to never have kids.
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I always sat way in the back of a van so I had never seen rumble strips before. I thought that sound was something that came up out of the road and scraped the bottom of your car. I always wondered how it worked, like did it sense a car and automatically pop up? What happened to motorcycles?0
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Once I had a dream that we had a fire in our house. It was so vivid that until I was 15 I thought we actually had had a fire. I even argued with my parents that they were wrong because I could remember the fireman who teased me about wearing no shoes and I got flustered and sassed him.3
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I might have been 7 or 8 and woke up in the middle of the night to mom and her boyfriend getting it on. I went into their room scared cause she was screaming and I thought he was hurting her. Nope! Being all grown up turns out quite the opposite, it's a good time.2
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I remember being young enough to think that the music in the car was coming from a tiny performance area with tiny performers behind the tiny box at the front of the car because the grown-ups would push buttons on that box to make different people talk and sing.1
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I thought the Tooth Fairy might take more of my teeth out. I was terrified.0
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I believed we were all the same. Same Values. Same Opportunities. Didn't see the difference in people. Got along with every one. It wasn't until I left home that racism, sexism, rich v. poor was pointed out to me.
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I used to think dysfunction was normal3
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Bullet_with_Butterfly_Wings wrote: »I used to think dysfunction was normal
wait.
it's not ??
ut oh.1 -
Motorsheen wrote: »Bullet_with_Butterfly_Wings wrote: »I used to think dysfunction was normal
wait.
it's not ??
ut oh.
Who knew?!1 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »I remember being young enough to think that the music in the car was coming from a tiny performance area with tiny performers behind the tiny box at the front of the car because the grown-ups would push buttons on that box to make different people talk and sing.
I used to think that too!
Way back in the olden days, when a tv station had technical difficulties, they'd put up a title card that said "Please Stand By". And I did. Literally stood right in front of the tv set.3 -
I called tacos "burritos" and vice versa, until I was probably 11 or 12. I felt like they were incorrectly named for some reason.
I also remember being really concerned about frogs vs. toads0 -
I used to think going to college would get you a good job when you grew up.12
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I used to think that trees turned black at night because when the sun is going down and you see the trees in the forefront they look black so therefore, trees turn black at night. Also my dad told me that the moon is bright because everyone is pointing a flashlight at it.
My aunt was pregnant and we were speculating if it would be a boy or a girl. Titanic had just come out and my brother, not understanding certain words from the movie but saying them anyways, said the baby could be a one legged prostitute. My dad was not impressed.5 -
I used to think the only reason I was so much lighter than the other kids at daycare was because my dad made me wear sunscreen every day. Also, my parents once told me that I was born with black hair but it all fell out and grew back nearly white-blonde. So naturally when a friend mentioned wanting my blonde hair I suggested they cut theirs all off because then it'll all grow back blonde.
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I used to think rain was just water that had previously evaporated into an invisible water vapor that condensed back to liquid when it encountered cooler temps until it formed large enough droplets to fall back to the earth until my friends told me it was actually angels crying.5
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One of my family's favorite stories is we were at a Friday Night Fish Fry at the local VFW (its a Wisconsin thing) and the nice lady serving us asked a 3 year old me if I knew what VFW stood for. I come from a military family so I did, and I proudly announced "Veterans of Foreign (insert old timey word for someone that sells sex)". I had lots of trouble with hearing as a kid and 3 year old me misheard the word for Wars. I guess the lady and everyone at the tables around us looked shocked, but my Grandpa (Marine Corps Major) without missing a beat said, "Well, she isn't wrong".5
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My mom had a fear of heights. When we'd go over large bridges, my father would tease her to keep her eyes shut because 'we're going over the bridge now!' I closed mine too. I couldn't see the roadway from the backseat, so I thought that cars drove UP AND OVER the TOP of the bridge, with their tires on the cables holding the suspension bridge up.1
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laprimaJenny wrote: »When I was five my mother went into the hospital for a dislocated disc in her back.
Earlier that morning while walking to school with my older brothers, they were teasing me that if I stepped on the cracks it would break our mothers back.
Still to this day I cringe at cracks. I obviously know that it wasn’t the cause, but it took me a while to understand that it wasn’t my fault.
Once when I was mad at my mom I stepped on a crack on purpose.3
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