Misconceptions You Had as a Child

Rivers2k · April 2014

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!"

I do this to my kids and my oldest is at the age where she doesn't quite believe me anymore but she isn't sure. She tells me to do it again and again. I put her "nose" in my mouth. and move my tongue around inside my mouth like her nose is trying to get out. then I spit it into my hand and put back on her nose. LOL. I take it a little too far I guess. Sometimes I put her nose in my pocket or behind my ear then forget and start to leave for work. She is terrified I am going to leave with her nose.

seltzermint555 · April 2014

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!

between this post and the one right before it about maxi pad "stickers" on the car window...it was just too much. I am silently laughing so hard at my desk at work with tears streaming down my face!!!!! :-D

WeepingAngel81 · April 2014

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 little sister told my mom once that they should move into a condo so I could practice safe sex :laugh:

Rivers2k · April 2014

You people are awesome!

kerrid72 · April 2014

I used to think the weight limit on bridge signs shown in tons was the same as pounds. I knew our family & car weighed more than that. I was just sure that we would die on a bridge.

MagJam2004 · April 2014

I remember thinking I could see through things, like an x-ray vision. When I finally confessed and demonstrated my super power to my parents, I was told that all I was doing was making my eyes cross. I was crushed for a while.

bookworm_847 · April 2014

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.

I should tell my mom to be thankful... I just stuck maxi pads all over the bathroom door, not her window.

bookworm_847 · April 2014

My grandma was a cook, and my mom was a cook, so I thought that when I grew up that I'd have to be a cook too. This made me sad because I didn't like to help in the kitchen and told my mom that cooking made my stomach hurt.

cowgirlqueen · April 2014

I thought clouds were made by air planes :laugh: I grew up in the middle of nowhere so the only proof of air planes I had was the little puffs they left behind so naturally as a small child I was convinced air planes made clouds

I also thought everyone in the world waved at each other, drove trucks, and wore cowboy hats & boots it wasn't until I moved to the city that I realized that, that was a complete misconception :laugh: there I was 17 years old wearing a cowboy hat & boots and waving at everyone and couldn't for the life of me figure out why people were looking at me so weird and asking do I know you :laugh: :blushing: I'm still embarrassed by that :blushing: :laugh:

WillLift4Tats · April 2014

I also thought everyone in the world waved at each other, drove trucks, and wore cowboy hats & boots it wasn't until I moved to the city that I realized that, that was a complete misconception :laugh: there I was 17 years old wearing a cowboy hat & boots and waving at everyone and couldn't for the life of me figure out why people were looking at me so weird and asking do I know you :laugh: :blushing: I'm still embarrassed by that :blushing: :laugh:

Lol this is the curse of the small Texas town. The first time someone didn't wave back, I was like wtf??

suremeansyes · April 2014

When I was about 3 or 4, whenever I got tall enough to ride Star Tours at Disneyland, I was convinced by the ride and tourist posters that we ended up on the moon.

I remember walking down the hallway after the ride, amazed that we got to go, and asked my dad "Are we on the moooon?"

I also thought that you had only one opportunity to pick what your job was going to be when you became an adult, so I was constantly re-evaluating my choices and the pros and cons of each job. Lol.

branflakes1980 · April 2014

I thought that blood was really blue cause thats what your veins look like, and I thought once it hit the air it turned red....lol

My mom would swear to you that this is true. :embarassed:

This is a common myth! Most well educated adults believe this, I did at one point too!

:huh: I believed this until JUST NOW!! :noway:

cowgirlqueen · April 2014

I thought that blood was really blue cause thats what your veins look like, and I thought once it hit the air it turned red....lol

My mom would swear to you that this is true. :embarassed:

This is a common myth! Most well educated adults believe this, I did at one point too!

:huh: I believed this until JUST NOW!! :noway:

wait.... what?? it's not true?? dang I feel dumb :laugh:

cowgirlqueen · April 2014

I also thought everyone in the world waved at each other, drove trucks, and wore cowboy hats & boots it wasn't until I moved to the city that I realized that, that was a complete misconception :laugh: there I was 17 years old wearing a cowboy hat & boots and waving at everyone and couldn't for the life of me figure out why people were looking at me so weird and asking do I know you :laugh: :blushing: I'm still embarrassed by that :blushing: :laugh:

Lol this is the curse of the small Texas town. The first time someone didn't wave back, I was like wtf??

lol I know me too!! I couldn't believe it i was in total shock needless to say my city days didn't last long i was completely mind blown that people didn't know their own neighbors lol they new stuff like "well i think he works he always leaves during the day" or "i think they have kids i see toys all the time" lol where i grew up i knew everyone and their birthdays not just my neighbors

IIIIISerenityNowIIIII · April 2014

My son thought all of our light fixtures in the house, which are big and spherical with golden knobs in the middle, were big boobies.

dessyjo · April 2014

My skinny, blond haired, blue eyed siblings had me convinced I was dropped off by the Fed ex man since I am the complete opposite.

IIIIISerenityNowIIIII · April 2014

I heard that every time you move, tiny particles of skin would shed, but didn't know that your skin grows. I thought once you used up all the layers of skin you have, that was it. I tried not to move around unnecessarily because I didn't want my skeleton to show.

love2cycle · April 2014

When I was a little kid, say 6 or 7, my grandmother used to babysit and we would play the card game Old Maid. I always stuck the old maid up above the other cards if I had it and grandma always picked it. I thought I was being brilliant, and It wasn't until I was in my 30s and we were talking about it and she laughed and said "you thought I didn't know?" hahahaha

Slendermike · April 2014

If a girl kissed you, you would get cooties.

cad39too · April 2014

That foods I didn't like the look of, would taste nasty - this included cashews (ugly peanuts); sweet potatoes (potatoes that had gone bad); Salmon (ick, pink - no other reason needed).

All stuff I actually love as an adult

FemmeFatale83 · April 2014

I also thought everyone in the world waved at each other, drove trucks, and wore cowboy hats & boots it wasn't until I moved to the city that I realized that, that was a complete misconception :laugh: there I was 17 years old wearing a cowboy hat & boots and waving at everyone and couldn't for the life of me figure out why people were looking at me so weird and asking do I know you :laugh: :blushing: I'm still embarrassed by that :blushing: :laugh:

Lol this is the curse of the small Texas town. The first time someone didn't wave back, I was like wtf??

lol I know me too!! I couldn't believe it i was in total shock needless to say my city days didn't last long i was completely mind blown that people didn't know their own neighbors lol they new stuff like "well i think he works he always leaves during the day" or "i think they have kids i see toys all the time" lol where i grew up i knew everyone and their birthdays not just my neighbors

I love people who are super friendly, wish there were more=)

weightedfootsteps · April 2014

In our family the vagina was called a birdie...swear to God I wondered why it never chirped!!!!

Also, a penis was called a Deet-deet! Don't ask me where they came up with these names..LOL

We used to go to a lake called Okatibee I believe the name was in Meridian, Mississippi...Well after we moved to Hawaii...a few years later me and my sis were talking naming all our aunts and uncles that we missed..and we remembered the name Uncle Tibee. Couldn't for the life of us remember what he looked like, so we asked our parents. They laughed so hard while trying to explain to us that we used to pronounce the name of the lake wrong..so it always sounded like Uncle Tibee....:laugh:

scribb · April 2014

Lol

seltzermint555 · April 2014

I also thought everyone in the world waved at each other, drove trucks, and wore cowboy hats & boots it wasn't until I moved to the city that I realized that, that was a complete misconception :laugh: there I was 17 years old wearing a cowboy hat & boots and waving at everyone and couldn't for the life of me figure out why people were looking at me so weird and asking do I know you :laugh: :blushing: I'm still embarrassed by that :blushing: :laugh:

Lol this is the curse of the small Texas town. The first time someone didn't wave back, I was like wtf??

lol I know me too!! I couldn't believe it i was in total shock needless to say my city days didn't last long i was completely mind blown that people didn't know their own neighbors lol they new stuff like "well i think he works he always leaves during the day" or "i think they have kids i see toys all the time" lol where i grew up i knew everyone and their birthdays not just my neighbors

oh man, I don't even consider myself a "city girl" since my city is small (50k, metro area of like 200k) but I'm totally the type to live next door to someone for 5 years and have no clue of their name or anything about them. I probably would never even notice if they worked nights or had toys around. haha My mom thinks it's very weird. She will come to visit and ask us questions about our neighbors down the block and my husband and I have never even looked in their direction!

Actually I did notice 2 weeks ago a huge moving truck on the corner, and cars with New Jersey plates. I'm in Missouri so that's not really common. Then today as I was driving to work, I saw a man I'd never seen before bringing out his trash can (from the house where the NJ vehicles were moving in) and I kind of nodded to him & smiled and he looked at me like I was nuts. So I guess I've got some of that small town Midwestern thing in me somewhere, right? haha

Bownzi · April 2014

Growing up as a military child in the 60's and 70's...I thought that everyone hated our soldiers... especially living over seas...

bennettinfinity · April 2014

- That the bands playing on the radio were actually playing live from the radio station...

- That the crew of the Enterprise (from the original series) were lost and were trying to find their way back to Earth

- And thanks to my mom - that if you swallow a watermelon seed, a watermelon would grow in your stomach... I avoided watermelon for YEARS! Even after I was old enough to know better! :laugh:

Kimdbro · April 2014

I asked my parents what caused the light rays in the sky (you know sunrays and how you can literally sometimes see them) my Dad said it was cars driving around in the sky with the headlights on. I figured it was fishy.... it was really bright out, seemed odd that you'd even need lights let alone be able to see them. I was 5.

I believed that a car really could run on fumes. It was embarassing the day I was riding in a car with my Sister and her friend and her friend mentioned that they were nearly out of gas..... I jumped up and said "It's ok you can run on fumes for awhile!!" They made fun of me. I was 11, my Sister was 18.

ihadabadidea · April 2014

A friend of mine thought cheese with a wax coating was "real cheese" from cows, as if it was some sort of egg-like thing they laid. Cheese in blocks and shredded cheese were man-made.