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I Used to Believe is a website for sharing childhood beliefs, and rating other people's beliefs that they share.

It has different sections for themed beliefs (e.g. "animals", "language", and "death"), which are themselves split into sections (e.g. "language" has subsections "counting", "foreign languages", "reading", "speaking", "spelling", and "swearing") and a list of the most common beliefs.


This website contains examples of:

  • Alternative Joke Interpretation: invoked This entry on concerns a boy who thought bodily organs were the same as the instrument known as an "organ", and asked his friends why we never hear music from them. He mentions that they didn't answer, but later, one of them farted and the other said, "There — there's some music from one of Olivia's organs!", prompting them both to laugh. The submitter notes that even now, he doesn't know whether the girls laughed because they just found farts funny, or if they found it funny that he didn't know the double meaning of "organ".
  • Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: This section has a logo that contains a pink rabbit.
  • Cat Up a Tree: This belief concerns someone who thought the reason firefighters took cats down from trees was because cats could set the trees on fire.
  • Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The subsections of "language" are, in order: "counting", "foreign languages", "reading", "speaking", "spelling", and "swearing".
  • Demonic Possession: This section concerns children who thought that not holding their breaths near cemeteries would either kill them or cause ghosts to possess them.
  • Dog Got Sent to a Farm: The page about animal death has many stories along these lines.
    • One person's belief was about their dog Muffy. The truth is, Muffy really did get sent to live on a farm, but they didn't realize why everyone looked so sad when informed of this.
    • Another poster's parents told them their cat was sent to a farm, resulting in Mistaken Identity. The poster visited his grandparent's farm and thought their barn cat was his cat, who hissed at them for petting it.
    • Another poster's father worked at the shipyard which had stray cats to catch mice. The father convinced the poster that any dead pets were living in the shipyard until he was caught burying one.
  • Do Not Do This Cool Thing: invoked The "Monkey Child" was told by their grandpa that if they kept sucking my thumb, they would grow a monkey's tail. It just made them suck it more.
  • The Dreaded "Thank You" Letter: This submitter hated sending thank you notes so badly, he believed that his parents were punishing him out of jealousy.
  • Easter Bunny: There is a section of beliefs about the Easter Bunny.
  • Eskimos Aren't Real: This submission involves somebody who thought princesses weren't real.
  • If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You: Conversed here when the submitter had seen TV shows which portrayed vegetables as gross, but healthy, and then concluded that snot must be healthy to eat too, since it was also gross.
  • Innocent Inaccurate: This belief concerned someone who thought masturbating meant pooping.
  • Joke of the Butt: This section is for people who thought playing with their belly buttons would cause their butts to fall off.
  • Literal-Minded: A lot of the beliefs involved kids taking things too literally. For example, one kid thought that "cut and paste" meant computers contained scissors and glue.
  • Living Toys: This section concerns children who thought their toys came to life while they slept.
  • Mondegreen Gag: This section is for kids who heard song lyrics wrong.
  • Monster Clown: This belief concerns a kid who stopped celebrating Halloween all because they thought evil clowns existed.
  • Mouth Stitched Shut: This section is for people who believed dragonflies stich people's mouth shut.
  • No Longer with Us: One person's submission was about how his Dog Got Sent to a Farm, meaning the family's uncle's farm due to them moving to an apartment. They didn't realize why everyone looked so sad when informed of this.
  • Nose Nuggets: This section is about beliefs related to nose-picking.
  • Potty Dance: The logo for the section on the "Bad Moon on the Rise/Bathroom on the Right" misconception depicts a woman with her hands on her crotch and a man with his legs crossed, indicating they have to pee.
  • Putting the Pee in Pool: One common belief is that urine changes colour in swimming pools.
  • Santa Claus: The Father Christmas section has a host of beliefs, ranging from "I thought Santa was real" to "I thought Santa was my grandfather".
  • Still Sucks Thumb: There is a section for beliefs about thumb-sucking.
  • Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: One common belief is that monsters live under beds.
  • Toilet Humour: There are sections for beliefs related to farting, weeing and pooing, and toilets.
  • Who's on First?:
    • This section is about people who thought "euthanasia" was "youth in Asia".
    • This one is about kids who misunderstood "L, M, N, O, P" as one letter, pronounced "elemenopee".
    • This one is for people who thought "serial" killers were "cereal" killers.

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