Dumb things you used to believe as a kid

I once thought that the Xen aliens were trying to take over the world one nation at a time.

i thought someone loved me

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I thought that Love at First sight was the norm for every single person on the planet.

Also, I believed Terrorists and Criminals were akin to Saturday Morning Cartoon Villains, with only a few being really bad.

I thought Japan was part of China.

Speaking of countries...I was really into geography as a little kid. I remember reading an atlas as a toddler and being perplexed as to why all the countries I had heard of (UK, France, Spain Germany...) were all in the same part of Europe while other continents, like Africa, were full of countries I had never heard of. And then little me was introduced to the concept Western dominance of society and media.

edited 1st Oct '16 3:12:33 PM by Cailleach

I thought baby back ribs were beef.

There was a back alley in my home city that, for some reason, I believed would lead to Spain. I don't know how this idea formed in my little 5-year old mind, but it did. I'm not even sure if I really knew exactly what Spain was at the time. Unfortunately, when the time came that I first walked down that alley, it turned out that it did not, in fact, lead to Spain.

I know you don't have an answer, but I'm very seriously confused on how you came to that conclusion.

edited 1st Oct '16 4:39:30 PM by BaconZorp

That's hilarious. I love what weird things 5-year-old brains could come up with.

I just... I have no idea to be honest.

edited 1st Oct '16 4:43:19 PM by Sazandora

When you were a kid, did you believe that if you dug a deep enough hole, you'd end up in China? Maybe it's something similar to that.

edited 1st Oct '16 4:44:30 PM by DrNoPuma

I think the logic might have been something like: I'm in the south of England, Spain is... somewhere in Europe, there's this long alleyway I can't see the end of, ergo, it leads to Spain. Makes perfect sense.

When I was very little, I misinterpreted something I read in Stellaluna, which resulted in me thinking that not only was Stellaluna herself actually a human transformed into a bat (despite nothing in the book indicating it), but that it was possible for any human to turn into a bat. (I can't quite remember how I thought people could become bats, though. I think it might have been from eating mangoes or something.)

In case you haven't noticed, I was just a little bit of a Cloud Cuckoolander when I was really little.

Do you remember what it was you misinterpreted?

If memory serves me, it was a picture that was comparing human arms with bat wings or something, combined with having no idea what I was reading. (This was in the book's endpapers which gives off more facts about bats if I remember the book correctly.)

I literally never noticed that women had breasts until we learned about puberty in middle school.

... Then what did you think was on their chests?

I don't know... I just somehow never noticed anything there. I don't know how to explain it.

edited 2nd Oct '16 4:54:05 PM by DrNoPuma

That is ...something. How did you explain cleavage?

It was a long time ago, I don't remember.

I thought a person would feel physical pain when they got their hair cut. Basically my logic was a: Pointy objects can hurt you. Scissors are pointy. Therefore it must hurt when you get your hair cut. It wasn't until first grade, when I decided to get my hair cut for the first time, that I learned that wasn't the case.

Due to him being The Voice in a Very Special Episode of Blue's Clues, I thought Ray Charles was a disembodied voice.

I used to think vampires were real, and had a childhood fear of them.

I used to think garlic was a herb.

I also used to think the name Roger could not be spelt without a 'd'.

I also used to think my right knee had psychic tendencies. It doesn't. It has very good timing, though.

edited 9th Oct '16 6:09:32 AM by HaplessHuman

I used to think that Cloud (From Final Fantasy 7) was an older version of Sora (From Kingdom Hearts). It was likely the overly-spiky hair. Why am I so dumb.

I though Cloud was time-warped for some reason.

edited 9th Oct '16 3:39:54 PM by Revaryk

But... Didn't Cloud appear in Kingdom Hearts too?