Childish Misunderstanding
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I was certain that one day I would either be possessed by the devil, or disappear in the Bermuda Triangle.1
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I was certain that one day I would either be possessed by the devil, or disappear in the Bermuda Triangle.
At every sleepover, I assumed we were gonna face molesting stepdads or uncles and kidnappers/murderers from the woods. Thank goodness I never actually had any horrible situations like that, but I was hyperaware. My friends were scared of "ghosts" and horror movies. I thought they were idiots, but I was on high alert for what I assumed was DEFINITELY going to happen in real life.
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I believed all dogs go to heaven. My step dad is super conservative Christian and decided to break my heart at the age of 10 and tell me animals don't have souls therefore no animals will be in heaven.
Yeah *kitten* that concept. If there is a heaven, it will have more beautiful doggos than rotten people.3 -
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My son believed his aunt swallowed a baby and thats why their was a baby in her belly.1
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invisiblewoman5 wrote: »projectbradley wrote: »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.
Who would have thought that about quicksand.
these were big fears of mine as well ; D0 -
My sister and I were terrified of vampires coming into bite our necks so we would wrap them up in a blanket or pull our pjs up to cover and make sure we said our prayers. This somehow kept us safe from the vampires...(Dark Shadows)1
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SabotageinStilettos wrote: »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!
Where I live it's actually illegal to drink OR eat while driving. Haha. So technically your dad was still doing the wrong thing SOMEWHERE in the world. LOL0 -
I thought my name was Nickel (it's Nicole - but the way people said it, I just got confused and thought my name was the same as the coin). I also thought that song: Hey Mickey you're so fine... was actually about me because I heard the lyrics as: Hey Nicky you're so fine.
I think my biggest misunderstanding was thinking that people were worth my time or effort. Really the people I wanted approval from were the biggest asshats in the universe and I'm very sorry I wasted my time being concerned with them.1 -
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Wind chill factor (the "Feels Like" temperature due to wind) I always thought was windshield factor - like how cold the wind feels against the windshield of your car.2
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When I was younger my mother only bought things/food/clothes if they were on sale...I thought it meant everyone was only allowed to buy stuff that is for sale and I always wondered why in the world all that other stuff was in the store if it was not for sale and people couldn't buy it.2
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I used to think that clouds came from the smokestacks of factories.1
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We convinced my brother thst he was half leprachaun, and he believed that on St.Patricks day he was a full leprechaun.
He was born a couple days after St. Patricks day, was named Patrick Michael, and has blue eyes and red hair, lots of freckes (we do have a lot of Irish in us, lol) and one ear with a pointier tip than the other. It was the ear that was our biggest "proof"
My youngest sister was the only one who had very dark hair and eyes, so we convinced her that she was left by gypsies, because "even they didn't want her" . We were terrible people.
Now my friends kid (and daughters BFF) believes she was dropped off by aliens. Sometimes the rest of us do too...1 -
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I always thought when I overheard adults say “they are on their death bed” that it was a special bed they moved them to. I’m not proud that I thought this lol2
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I thought people who won the Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes had to actually take those giant checks to the bank.0
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Black and white tv shows and movies confused the hell out of me. Like...I thought the world didn't invent color until the 60s.1
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Avocado_AS5 wrote: »Black and white tv shows and movies confused the hell out of me. Like...I thought the world didn't invent color until the 60s.
Me too! I often wondered what the world was like before it was colorized.0 -
I thought a lot of things about TV shows when I was a kid.
To me it seemed like "Little House on the Prairie" was current, but it was just about people who lived out West and didn't have the same stuff we had further east...lol. This was further proven to my child mind by seeing people of certain religions driving horse & buggy in the country when we were on the highway. In my mind, they probably knew the Ingalls.
I thought MOST adults lived with roommates or single, like Jack, Janet & Chrissy on "Three's Company".
I thought the Golden Girls were just business ladies with ugly clothes. I did NOT understand they were senior citizens.
I thought there were only families with 6 kids like the Brady Bunch on TV shows. The biggest family I knew personally, growing up, had 3 kids. Never mind my own mother was from a family with 10 children...that didn't click for me 'til I was much older.0 -
Our dog got sick and was in the hospital. I overheard my mom saying that he was on a balanced diet and I imagined them making him walk on a tightrope with a stick in his mouth balancing two bowls on either end0
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Avocado_AS5 wrote: »I believed all dogs go to heaven. My step dad is super conservative Christian and decided to break my heart at the age of 10 and tell me animals don't have souls therefore no animals will be in heaven.
Yeah *kitten* that concept. If there is a heaven, it will have more beautiful doggos than rotten people.
Cats and dogs can be better people than people so I agree with you 100%.0 -
SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
So did I until now! lol0 -
seltzermint555 wrote: »I thought a lot of things about TV shows when I was a kid.
To me it seemed like "Little House on the Prairie" was current, but it was just about people who lived out West and didn't have the same stuff we had further east...lol. This was further proven to my child mind by seeing people of certain religions driving horse & buggy in the country when we were on the highway. In my mind, they probably knew the Ingalls.
I thought MOST adults lived with roommates or single, like Jack, Janet & Chrissy on "Three's Company".
I thought the Golden Girls were just business ladies with ugly clothes. I did NOT understand they were senior citizens.
I thought there were only families with 6 kids like the Brady Bunch on TV shows. The biggest family I knew personally, growing up, had 3 kids. Never mind my own mother was from a family with 10 children...that didn't click for me 'til I was much older.
Too funny about Three's Company. For me it was Sesame Street. I live in a town where even in midtown, private homes have yards, and even the poor people I knew lived in detached housing - I never saw a walk up until I was in college. And it's illegal to live over a store here. So I didn't understand why the people on Sesame Street lived in such a weird place and what was supposed to be going on. My husband, who grew up in a rural area, reports also being confused by Sesame Street.1 -
rheddmobile wrote: »seltzermint555 wrote: »I thought a lot of things about TV shows when I was a kid.
To me it seemed like "Little House on the Prairie" was current, but it was just about people who lived out West and didn't have the same stuff we had further east...lol. This was further proven to my child mind by seeing people of certain religions driving horse & buggy in the country when we were on the highway. In my mind, they probably knew the Ingalls.
I thought MOST adults lived with roommates or single, like Jack, Janet & Chrissy on "Three's Company".
I thought the Golden Girls were just business ladies with ugly clothes. I did NOT understand they were senior citizens.
I thought there were only families with 6 kids like the Brady Bunch on TV shows. The biggest family I knew personally, growing up, had 3 kids. Never mind my own mother was from a family with 10 children...that didn't click for me 'til I was much older.
Too funny about Three's Company. For me it was Sesame Street. I live in a town where even in midtown, private homes have yards, and even the poor people I knew lived in detached housing - I never saw a walk up until I was in college. And it's illegal to live over a store here. So I didn't understand why the people on Sesame Street lived in such a weird place and what was supposed to be going on. My husband, who grew up in a rural area, reports also being confused by Sesame Street.
How cute and funny about Sesame Street. I liked a lot of books set in NYC for some reason, especially books by Lois Lowry, so I thought of the Sesame Street characters as all living in NYC.
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caco_ethes wrote: »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.
I guess i already shared this story 😯0
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