Misconceptions You Had as a Child

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  • ninjakitty419
    ninjakitty419 Posts: 349 Member
    Hahaha this thread is great! I didn't get through all the posts but the ones I did read really made me smile.

    I used to think "broughtyoud" was a word, as in "this program was broughtyoud (brought to you) by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation and donations from viewers like you"

    I also thought that when a piece of cat fur got stuck to my cheese sandwich and I ate it, I would turn in to a cat.

    I thought that my grandma had "something behind there", refering to underneath her saggy breasts. I didn't believe her that behind them was just skin.
  • Rivers2k
    Rivers2k Posts: 380 Member
    I thought Independence Day (USA) was actually called "the 4th of July". I asked my teacher once when "the 4th of July" was.

    hahahaha
  • Kitship
    Kitship Posts: 579 Member


    I was afraid to stay under water to long in a pool because I thought the pool cover came out of the sides of the pool, by pushing a button or something and I would get trapped under.

    In relation to pools, I thought that lobsters inhabited the area next to the drain in my pool.

    My dad also convinced me one time that the energizer bunny lives in his belly button.
  • Samenamenewlook
    Samenamenewlook Posts: 296 Member
    I believed my mom had eyes in the back of her head.

    I cried when Apollo died in Rocky ... not because it was sad, because I thought it really happened.
  • FemmeFatale83
    FemmeFatale83 Posts: 96
    I asked my bf this and his immediate response was "That women are nice." LoL
  • becsnz1
    becsnz1 Posts: 85 Member
    I thought Fire Engines went to put fire on houses and I was always fearful when seeing one zooming down the road with lights on they were going to MY house to burn it! Used to get very upset and cry lots whenever I saw one!

    I thought when you went overseas on an aeroplane that you had to sit on chairs on the wings and got tied on with massive ropes.

    My birthday was in November and I thought you could choose when you had your birthday so I told my mum that I wanted my next birthday in July coz it would be sooner than having it in November next year.

    That's all I am game enough to share :embarassed:
  • Rivers2k
    Rivers2k Posts: 380 Member
    I asked my bf this and his immediate response was "That women are nice." LoL

    LOL that is awesome. I would say something like that.

    On that note I thought married couples had sex every day!
  • ninjakitty419
    ninjakitty419 Posts: 349 Member
    There's no pretty way of saying this, but I thought having sex meant that you ate the other person's poo and pee.

    Thank god I never said that out loud to anybody... and thank god for the internet for correcting that mistake.

    Wow I thought sex was just laying on top of each other clothes or not. yours is worse hahahah

    I thought that if you laid in bed with someone you would get pregnant. When I was a kid I thought I didnt even wanna be pregnant because labor would hurt so I remember telling my parents that when I grew up and got married I was going to sleep on top of the covers and my husband could sleep under them cuz i didnt want to accidently get pregnant.
  • pfgaytriot
    pfgaytriot Posts: 238 Member
    I thought that since I was older than my cousin by a few months that I should be taller. Yep, we're both 31 and she's still taller than I am.

    ETA: We're only 31, not 32. WTH is wrong with me?
  • FemmeFatale83
    FemmeFatale83 Posts: 96
    I asked my bf this and his immediate response was "That women are nice." LoL

    LOL that is awesome. I would say something like that.

    On that note I thought married couples had sex every day!

    Lol that is a big misconception
  • Rivers2k
    Rivers2k Posts: 380 Member

    I thought when you went overseas on an aeroplane that you had to sit on chairs on the wings and got tied on with massive ropes.

    I recall a children's book like this. it was these giant wings and it was the biggest air plane and there was a circus on it and people just rode on top of this plane with chairs that were tied down.
  • Rivers2k
    Rivers2k Posts: 380 Member
    I asked my bf this and his immediate response was "That women are nice." LoL

    LOL that is awesome. I would say something like that.

    On that note I thought married couples had sex every day!

    Lol that is a big misconception

    Yes Ma'am
  • coretemp
    coretemp Posts: 1,796 Member
    that children remained children and adults remained adults but couldn't quite put my finger on what elderly was, LOL

    I also thought I would never learn how to do cursive writing because I wasn't an adult.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    i thought tartar sauce was made from tartar and was grossed out how anyone would want to eat a sauce scraped from people's teeth.

    I still can't eat tartar sauce.

    That cracks me up!! :-)

    My nephew who was maybe six or seven at the time, got all freaked out when he heard that my high school graduation party was at this certain restaurant in our town. He kept blushing and then would hide his face. My stepsister finally got it out of him...he'd read on the sign "PRIVATE PARTIES" and thought it meant everyone would be naked.

    i also giggled as a pre-teen because I thought fast food restaurants gave out contraception when they had signs that said "Condiments upon request."
  • california_haley
    california_haley Posts: 220 Member
    If you swallowed any kind of fruit or veggie seed that it would then grow in your tummy. (Thanks big brother!)

    That if you had a fort then nothing bad could ever happen there.

    Also that everything you saw on TV or on a movie was in fact a true story! I didnt understand why I couldnt have a talking Great Dane to solve mysteries with!
  • The_Aly_Wei
    The_Aly_Wei Posts: 844 Member
    There's no pretty way of saying this, but I thought having sex meant that you ate the other person's poo and pee.

    Welp, i for one am glad that is not the case.
  • techgal128
    techgal128 Posts: 719 Member
    After I watched Matilda as a kid, I spent hours staring at random objects hoping that I could somehow develop telekinesis.

    Also, I stuck a bunch of my mom's maxi pads on her car window one time because I thought they were just weird looking stickers.
  • elainecroft
    elainecroft Posts: 595 Member
    The kids said the "if I die before I wake" prayer because your chances of randomly dying in the night were like 50-50 and you needed to be prepared!
  • mrfreestyle
    mrfreestyle Posts: 1,293 Member
    I thought New York was the capital of America, and then after that I thought it was Atlanta.

    I remember I also thought London was in Greenland

    I thought tornadoes and earthquakes only happened in cartoons.

    After watching Superman, I thought I could fly by wrapping myself in a red sheet
  • Rivers2k
    Rivers2k Posts: 380 Member
    I thought New York was the capital of America.

    Its not? We sure act like we are.

    There are two states NY and California the rest is just middle stuff.

    LOL trying to get out of this state in a hurry.
  • Miss_TeaPot
    Miss_TeaPot Posts: 55 Member
    Mine is really weird. I thought only women went #2 in the bathroom because it was practice for childbirth.

    I thought boogers were old memories that were forgotten.

    I thought warm water kept you from having nightmares (my father told me that so I wouldn't be afraid of the dark)

    I thought the moon watched over children and reported to santa so he could make the naughty/nice list

    I thought ice cream was healthy for you because it contained dairy (not saying ice cream is bad for you but I wanted to eat whole cartons thinking it was good for my health)

    I thought sweating burned calories and so I would sit in my attic in the summer thinking I'd lose actual fat (I was a chubby kid and one summer I was sweating and my cousin said "Oh you're sweating calories!" I'm thinking she knew no better than I did)

    I thought the time pregnancy occured was dependent on if you were a "good" person or not. For example if you were "bad" you got pregnant before adulthood and if you were "good" you got pregnant once you were married.( I was born out of a wedlock and my family sometimes bad mouthed my mother about it, I suppose I got the concept somewhere from that)
  • WillLift4Tats
    WillLift4Tats Posts: 1,699 Member
    There was a red moon on Christmas eve one year and my sister and I were heartbroken because we thought it was a sign that Santa was murdered.
  • GothyFaery
    GothyFaery Posts: 762 Member
    I thought rainbows were make believe. I was so amazed when I saw my first one!
  • WeepingAngel81
    WeepingAngel81 Posts: 2,232 Member
    I thought that lights actually went somewhere when you turned them out

    That nuns were actually witches

    I believed that when I fell asleep at night my dolls came to life...then toy story happened! I was thrilled!
  • mrsburghart
    mrsburghart Posts: 166 Member
    That the piece of fat in the top of the Pork and Beans was actually a marshmellow...figured that one out real quick. BLEH
  • lisaanne1369
    lisaanne1369 Posts: 377 Member
    oh God, am I going to have hairy boobs like my dad????
  • Linli_Anne
    Linli_Anne Posts: 1,360 Member
    I thought the care bears really did live in the clouds. Boy was I disappointed when we flew to Disney World and I didn't see a single one.

    I thought that a Condo and a Condom were the same thing - and when people would talk about condos I was confused - especially with terms like "condo sized sofa".

    My mom referred to the Cosby's as blacks - and I asked her what she meant, and she said because of their skin colour. I hadn't even realized that their skin wasn't the same pigment as mine. :mind blown:
  • Linda6580
    Linda6580 Posts: 192 Member
    My older sister made me watch Children of the Corn once. After that I thought that if I went in a cornfield something really, really bad was going to happen and I would never make it home again. (my house was surrounded by cornfields, took quite awhile to get over this one!).

    My dad used to do the thumb trick when I was little, I thought he was really pulling his thumb off ( I do this to my girls now, the one would just start bawling, so I quit.)

    My dad used to pretend that he was taking my nose when I was little. He would grab my nose and then stick his thumb between his pointer and middle finger and say "I got your nose now!"

    My youngest daughter thinks you just keep getting taller and taller the older you get. She says she can't wait till she can touch the ceiling.
  • pfgaytriot
    pfgaytriot Posts: 238 Member
    My older sister made me watch Children of the Corn once. After that I thought that if I went in a cornfield something really, really bad was going to happen and I would never make it home again. (my house was surrounded by cornfields, took quite awhile to get over this one!).

    I had never seen a cornfield in real life until after watching Children of the Corn. That summer we went to visit family in Indiana was the worst summer vacation I can remember of my childhood.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I asked my bf this and his immediate response was "That women are nice." LoL

    LOL that is awesome. I would say something like that.

    On that note I thought married couples had sex every day!

    Some do! hehe

    Changing topics...I thought that Halloween was part of my birthday. My b-day is November 3, so usually it fell in the same week or part of the same 'long weekend'. I was an only child as a kid, and slightly spoiled, so this just made sense that in preparation for my birthday there would be a super fun holiday with costumes and loads of chocolate...right? ;-D

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