What's the dumbest/funniest misconception you had as a child?

[JungleMan1]

I thought that every time they sold a video of a movie, they had to keep refilming the movie every time. So one day I said to my mom "Mommy, don't these people ever get bored of doing the same thing over and over?"

Yeah, I was a really, really, really stupid kid.

 

[Squisher]

What's the dumbest/funniest misconception you had as a child?

Thought "from" was a thing.

When asked at the age of maybe 3, what I had in my hand I said "from". My parents discovered it was only fuzz that I had pulled from my blanket. They were puzzled until they realized they had previously said, "where did you get that from?"

I'm still razzed about it today at the age of 47.

 

[element]

Also, I thought tilt wheel steering meant the front wheels tilted towards the turn. Didn't know it referred to the steering wheel. hehe

 

[MrChad]

I firmly believed if I swallowed a watermelon seed, a watermelon would grow to full size in my stomach.

LOL, I believed the same thing about apples. I remember taking a bite of an apple one time that was just a *bit* too big, seeing the exposed seeded core and panicking.

My stupid brother told me that if I pushed the red "REC" button on the VCR, it would BLOW UP! So I never pushed it for years, until one day, I got really bold and decided to push it. Nothing happened.

My dad told me that if I pushed the small red "SET" button on my first watch it would explode. I never touched the thing.

 

[jeece]

At some moment, I thought cats were the females of the dogs, but I got past that quickly. However, it was much later that I've learned that the cows aren't female horses.

I imagined a kinda "filtering" system existed inside our bodies, to separate ingested solids and fluids, explaining that you pee when you drink and poo when you eat. :confused; I even drew some sketches of my theory.

I thought that by the time I'm 25 (which I am now), I'd have a family, a house, and a job, etc. Turns out, I'm single, just got my diploma and lives in an apartment. Add some debts to this too. :frown;

I thought you'd have to vomit at least once a year to be healthy. A kind of Spring cleaning, if you will. Not that I forced myself to puke though.

I was told AIDS was a disease that only men that "slept" together could have. I was quite shocked because I was sleeping with my dad (well, sharing the same bed only ) when I was visiting him on weekends.

I always had a wild imagination, I think there's a lot more I could say... But that's about what comes to my mind right now.

 

[bastula]

Originally posted by: InstincT
You know when you stare at something white or light... you see those little things floating around within your vision? well I used to think those were atoms hehe.

I used to close my eyes and stare into my forearm for 30 seconds or so. After I did that I would get the same feeling and imagine that I had super eyes and could see atoms floating around. Needless to say, nobody ever understood what I was talking about. *shrugs*

Also, for the longest time, after watching commercials on TV for women's pads, I always thought they were for women who couldn't hold their pee. It was a LOT later when I figured out they were for a different kind of purpose. Additionally, after finding that out, I thought that a woman's period was just a single drop of blood, even though I knew they had a cycle. It wasn't until a couple of years later until I found out that it was a matter of several days. I guess that explains some of the moodiness.

 

[ShOcKwAvE827]

In elementary school everyone thought that Yellow 5 would make your penis smaller. So everyone avoided mountain dew and yellow dyed foods.

 

[Gurck]

At the end of the It's A Small World ride in Disneyworld was a big illustration on a wall of the open sea with pirates and such, I thought it was real and got mesmerized by it and then realized I was headed toward it - thinking I'd be lost at sea forever, I started bawling I was 3 or 4.

 

[akihabara]

Adults are sensible and respectable.

 

[anno]

I am gonna win this one.

they say all you need to know you learn in kindergarten.

in 1961, at least where I lived, there wasn't public school kindergarten. so.. I went to kindergarten in the basement of this old lady's house 3 blocks away. she was REALLY old.. she was 103 when I was in jr. high so she had to be 90something.. really old.

and she was a witch. dressed up like one for halloween and everything.. I was scared to death of this lady. but.. she taught us stuff, regular kindergarten stuff and manners and stuff.. and she wasn't always scary.. it was OK.. most of the time. but she was old.. we never went outside. for exercise, we danced.

so.. we'd dance. waltzes and stuff. heck, she was so old maybe it was minuets.. I was so young I don't remember. after you dance, good manners require you to kiss your partner on each cheek. a "french kiss".

that's what I learned in kindergarten. french kissing. it was kinda embarrassing, how I learned that I had not learned all I needed to know in kindergarten..


anno

 

[Rob9874]

Originally posted by: Bulldog13
I didn t realize women pooped until I was like 9.

I always just thought they did number 1.

Don t ask me why.

I'm still hanging on to that belief. Don't tell me otherwise.

 

[jorken]

That it was perfectly natural for Dogs and Cats to get married.

 

[luvya]

I thought Santa Clause was real

 

[rival]

i thought god existed

 

[bootymac]

I thought gas prices were expensive

 

[Slickone]

I was smart enough to realize that there were TV ratings but thought that they could tell what everyone was watching on TV.

Originally posted by: JungleMan1
I thought that every time they sold a video of a movie, they had to keep refilming the movie every time. So one day I said to my mom "Mommy, don't these people ever get bored of doing the same thing over and over?"

Yeah, I was a really, really, really stupid kid.

Heh. Until I saw this thread, I've spent the last 10-20 years thinking how stupid I was as a kid and wondered if I was a normal kid. Now I realize I was.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

I remember convincing my little sister she would graduate in 2001 instead of 2000 because 2000 was a leap year :laugh:

 

[RS3RS]

My dad turned right on a red light once when I was in the car with him. Of course, I didn't know it was legal to do that, and went home and told my mother about how he was running red lights without even stopping. And then of course, he was in trouuuubblllleeeee....

 

[CrazyDe1]

That black people rolled dice with syllables to get their kid's names

 

[moshquerade]

that you could make a baby by kissing

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: jntdesign
gonna sound retarded...
but i thought all dogs were male and all cats were female

Me too!!!

me 3

 

[josedawg]

I used to think all cats were female. It never dawned on me how they reproduced (this was before I found out about sex and the whole she-bang-bang.)

 

[josedawg]

Originally posted by: jntdesign
gonna sound retarded...
but i thought all dogs were male and all cats were female

whoops, didnt read all the way through before i replied.
i knew dogs were male and female, but i used to think all cats were female.

 

[josedawg]

This was just told to me by a friend of mine. Happened this semester.

My friend was sitting in class, can't remember if he said sociology or abnormal psych class (yes, we're talking college here), and one guy in his class asked his professor if an old man has sex with a young woman, if the baby's face will come out wrinkled. My friend died laughing, as did others in the class, but the guy who said this was being very serious.

....hey, I guess not everyone grows up.

 

[Mandos]

All of mine have been posted in here so I've got nothing to add except I spent 45 minutes of my work day reading this thread. Effing great stuff