I thought video game characters existed. For example, I thought that one day Sonic and his friends would enter my room. I also thought that Spyro and Crash were trapped in certain points in the basement, and rescuing them would make them permanent parts of my family.
"That is hard to argue or agree with." ~PennyDon't know if I posted this already, but my childhood self conflated the names "Feynman" and "Seinfeld". So for several years I believed that in America, there was a famous physics professor who also had his own sitcom.
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...Remember when they went to plaid in Spaceballs? When I was a kid, I thought that was virtual reality. ^_^;;
Heaven is a tropical rainforest.A classmate of mine in first grade was obsessed with both Professional Wrestling and Jason Voorhies.
Therefore, for the longest time I thought that Jason was a professional wrestler.
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — UltimatepheerThanks to an episode of Timothy Goes to School, I thought "open house" & "science fair" were synonyms.
edited 21st Oct '15 3:51:49 PM by Spinosegnosaurus77
Peace is the only battle worth waging.I thought "Science Fiction Double Feature" was an ABBA song.
Blame my mother's singing habits.
Halper's Law: as the length of an online discussion of minority groups increases, the probability of "SJW" or variations being used = 1.Half this and half Odd confessions. On the way to my church, there's a building for pathology research. When I was a kid, I thought it said "paleontology."
Heaven is a tropical rainforest.As a kid, I firmly believed that America Takes Over the World or, at the very least, Expanded States of America was going to happen.
I mean, for most of our history we've had a new state added every couple of years, up until 1950 where it just stopped. I always thought that was weird. Especially when there's things like Puerto Rico to consider.
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — UltimatepheerI used to think that my older sister was my aunt. Sorry, sis! *blush*
And that cousins are just those that you're not fond of. Yeah, I misinterpreted one of the Little Critter books about the character's cousin.
Edit: Thought up a couple more:
I never got the gist of special effects in commercials and the like, so for a bit, I stayed away from Fruit Gushers because there were those ads in which kids' heads became fruits. Wow, I was a messed up little Berr.
And during elementary school, there were rules about "no talking", and I thought I'll get into trouble if I uttered a word. Guess my confusion when I notice everyone else talking to each other or answering the teacher. I got over it after moving to a new school.
edited 2nd Nov '15 1:41:42 PM by Berrenta
she/her | TRS needs your help! | Contributor of Trope ReportI think nearly everyone on here used to think that of Fruit Gushers at some point, even me.
I once drew a silly animation (er, more like animatic) parodying those ads where a guy continuously ate Fruit Gushers, his head changing all the way. Eventually, it resulted in the transformations escalating to downright absurd lengths (with different parts of his body transforming along with his head) before he eventually turned into a box of Fruit Gushers himself.
Anyway, once when I was around seven, I thought my mom fixed a food called "Nunya", and when she served it, I told her it was the best Nunya I had ever eaten. In actuality, the "Nunya" was actually cherry turn-overs that were meant to be a surprise dessert, hence why she said "Nunya" ("none of your business") when I asked my mom what she was cooking.
edited 2nd Nov '15 3:51:32 PM by kablammin45
"I'm thankful Mavis was able to forgive me for the mess I got myself into. I wasn't sure if I would have been able to forgive myself."As a kid, I thought Spongebob Squarepants made up stuff like the Flying Dutchman and Davy Jones' locker.
"Thanks for the lesson. But I don't need you to tell me who I am."Do you still have that animatic?
Peace is the only battle worth waging.I do, but I don't know how to upload the file of its type onto here. Just as well anyway considering how primitive it looks. (Being one of the first animations I made.) Maybe some day...
"I'm thankful Mavis was able to forgive me for the mess I got myself into. I wasn't sure if I would have been able to forgive myself."I didn't known Christian was an actual word for a long time. I had no exposure to religion at all (the only exposure I had was to Catholicism and even then I wasn't told to follow it or anything) so I just thought it was a name for a person.
Turns out I was half right
edited 3rd Nov '15 3:12:50 AM by Bleddyn
I thought "lawyer" was just a different way to pronounce "warrior", and that they were one and the same.
"I'm thankful Mavis was able to forgive me for the mess I got myself into. I wasn't sure if I would have been able to forgive myself."Because of my father doing a Donald Duck impression while sitting in the far back of my old car (we had seats that folded down if you needed to use the trunk), I believed that there was a duck lived in the trunk. My dad decided not to tell me that the duck was imaginary and continued to perpetuate the myth. Thankfully, I stopped believing that the duck was real after a while.
"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." -The Fourth DoctorI used to think my friend's house was the end of the world (Not as in an apocalypse sense, as in "You can't go past this point").
I also thought son was used to refer to both genders, and daughter was the word that was used for nieces.
edited 6th Nov '15 1:55:07 PM by Thepenguinking2
"That is hard to argue or agree with." ~PennyI thought The Rolling Stones invented rock and roll and the genre name was based on their name.
I thought that if I'm outside the recommended age range, I wouldn't be able to play that game or watch that show ever again.
edited 7th Nov '15 8:50:20 PM by TroperNo9001
"I didn't know you could read!" - Draco, in another timelineI thought lifespans were exact to the year, and you would always die on your birthday no matter what.
This is half because of that song "100 Years To Live" or something. The other half, an incident I don't like to talk about.
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — UltimatepheerWell, not exactly when I was a kid, but I thought "MFW" on the internet stood for "My f***in' word" instead of "My face when..." the first few times I saw it.
"I'm thankful Mavis was able to forgive me for the mess I got myself into. I wasn't sure if I would have been able to forgive myself."When I saw the commercial for Dow Bathroom Cleaner ("with scrubbing bubbles!") I thought that the cute little animated scrubbing bubbles were real. I squirted an entire can of the stuff into the bathtub just to see them.
I was disappointed. So was my Mom.
edited 8th Nov '15 2:03:03 PM by pwiegle
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.I thought everything was American.
"In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war."
I thought a leviathan was a person who could levitate