I thought my brother could hack the government on his pocket calculator.
I also thought if I forgot to de-vein my prawns I would slowly, horrifyingly, morph into a prawn. I really have no clue how I got that idea.
You need blood and he's got more than enough!This thread reminds me of I Used to Believe
, a website for funny and strange childhood beliefs.
Once when I was four I thought my grandpa was gone (not necessarily dead, just "gone") because I had had a dream the night before where something bizarre but still horrible happened to him that he wasn't going to come back from and then I proceeded to not see or hear from/about him for the next several days. I was relieved when he finally showed back up (he had just been out of town the whole time).
"Hey, least I didn't lose all my artistic talent when I crash landed in the arena here."I thought REO Speedwagon was one person named Reo Speedwagon because the first time I heard of them was in a Big Nate strip, whose lettering is in all caps. I was wrong. His name is Robert Edward Orville Speedwagon.
I also thought Adele was black until I saw a picture of her.
Edited by Katdo on Apr 14th 2019 at 12:32:27 PM
still cringe, just slightly better at hiding itMy first experience with Attack on Titan was seeing someone on the Warrior Cats Official Forum with the username Eren Jaeger. "Jaeger" is German for "hunter", so I thought that "Eren Jaeger" was the Germanized version of "Erin Hunter".
still cringe, just slightly better at hiding itI didn't know that having a baby required having sex, or that it didn't require getting married.
Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!Probably a common one, but I also believed that when you turned off the TV, whatever program was on when you shut it off paused. Yes, even news broadcasts.
Hey how you doing well I'm doing just fine I lied I'm dying insideYep, I also believed you could pause live TV. And I believed that if a book didn't have pictures it probably was too inappropriate for me to read (though that was when I was 4 so I guess that would be valid.)
I used to think that cartoons were somehow real. Back when I was in fourth grade, I didn't understand the concept that cartoons were just drawings on paper made to move with technology. I thankfully grew out of that silly phase when I entered sixth grade.
On that note, I once thought the Muppets were actual living creatures.
Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!For some reason I thought "nautical" meant silly or stupid.
Edited by TropesForever on Apr 30th 2019 at 11:25:02 PM
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I thought the coins in the Super Mario Bros. games were sliced bananas. I have no justification for that one at all.
Reindeer in the direction of reindeer