Dumb things you used to believe as a kid

Oh yeah. I didn't know it was called that.

I used to think "senators" and "politicians" were made-up things from the Star Wars universe, much like jedi and lightsabers, because the movies were the first place I'd heard the words used.

Thanks to stories like The Black Stallion, I used to think that horses were instinctively afraid of snakes.

Quite a few animals are instinctively afraid of snakes or anything that looks like them, including cats and birds, so that's actually not all that dumb.

edited 11th Apr '16 4:37:00 PM by AceTrainerEli

I uesd to believe that Pablo Picasso was Italian.

You know how your skin starts to peel when you get a sunburn? For some stupid reason, I used to believe you can skin yourself alive if you try to remove dead skin.

You know how sometimes you'll find something random in your mouth, like a small food piece that you unknowingly didn't swallow or fully chew up, or just some weird gunk? For some reason I thought those were small chunks of my brain coming off.

I also use to think that Sex was just two people getting naked and cuddling. Now granted, the latter is something that can happen after sex, so it wasn't THAT far off the mark, but still.

edited 21st Apr '16 9:02:08 PM by marston

I used to believe that escalators were just weird stairs that helped you to exercise. Basically I believed that you went up the down escalator and vice versa.

It took me a grand total of five minutes before I realized what the problem was.

I used to think cotton was made from sheep.

I remember thinking Pizzazz (from a salad topping oh-so-lovingly called Salad Pizzazz) was just pizza with two unnecessary Zs at the end.

When I was about four, I thought the only reason bees existed was to sting people, and I was scared to death of them. Fortunately, I got better.

Wasps on the other hand do exist only to sting people.

For the longest time, I thought that using references for drawing was "cheating" ala copying, and a good artist drew from memory.

Needless to say, my art has improved considerably after realizing how dumb thinking that was.

I thought prom was a matchmaking service.

I thought the police were bad. The only times I had seen them onscreen was if there was a big surly man in a uniform arresting somebody.

Like the Santa Claus and the Toothfairy, I guess my dumbest thing I believe was in the excessive idealism of "the world must be awesome and we can make a world without evil".

Fortunately, sudverting some of the typical "the world sucks because idealism is for kids", my idea of the world now-a-days is more gray than black, but still, my excessive idealism it stills being as a great shame for me, I was so naive.

edited 24th May '16 4:31:38 PM by ClownToy

My personal worldview is "People could make the world way better and do amazing things, but that doesn't mean they will. Too many are lazy, too many hold anti-progress beliefs, too many are straight up assholes." A strange blend of idealism and cynicism.

I firmly believe that people are good, the world is good, and good things will happen in the end. I see this as being much more fun than thinking the worst. I also do it because I am stubborn, and because it annoys people who aren't as optimistic. It's optimism, but it's also spite! YAAAAY!

...Ahem.

Anyway, the dumb thing I used to believe was that an anaconda lived in my school (in Australia mind) and it ate cats.

Sounds like when I thought there was a dinosaur in the locker in my middle school. :)

I know, my actual point is that I was overly optimistic.
Now a days I'm just trying to enjoy the life as much as it's possible for me, believing in the good people but understanding that not all people is good and overall just having a good time while I try to find a good job that I can find at least rewarding.

edited 24th May '16 7:38:18 PM by ClownToy

You boys don't know the sort-of edgy phase I went through for like 2 years. I imagined an event where dreams were ruined by, of all things, a Lv. 100 Togepi who had somehow stolen Darkrai's signature move and given it a second function (also, he couldn't be caught). Not the big D himself, but a regular ol' shell full of happiness who just wasn't doing his job.

I have no idea whatsoever what you're talking about.

Just something.

The Toge in question has been gender-swapped and retooled into a bad-girl type character who's a running gag (in my headcanon at least).

I just looked up those pokemon, and... what? more detail pls

edited 6th Jun '16 4:43:58 PM by SmartGirl333

Yeah, I understand that it's supposed to be Pokemon or whatever, but it still makes zero sense.