Dumb things you used to believe as a kid

I thought the coins in the Super Mario Bros. games were sliced bananas. I have no justification for that one at all.

The ghost stories they told us at high school camp.

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.

This thread reminds me of I Used to Believe, a website for funny and strange childhood beliefs.

I didn't realize that animation and live action were different media. Somehow.

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).

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

My 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".

I didn't know that having a baby required having sex, or that it didn't require getting married.

Didn't we all though.

I thought that the "color barrier" was a physical thing, like the sound barrier, and I thought that Jackie Robinson "broke the color barrier" by just running REALLY fast.

When I was younger, I used to think Sylvia's name and gender are Yonder and male, respectively.

I used to think CGI animation was live action, and you know, the whole you-can-only-get-pregnant-if-you're-married thing. Then I thought that periods NEVER stopped until either you got pregnant or until menopause. Silly me.

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.

Yep, 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.)

And that only girls could have long hair.

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.

Oh hey, I thought that, too!

Man, we were dumb kids.

On that note, I once thought the Muppets were actual living creatures.

They're not?

I believed that if you had an umbrella you could fly like Mary Poppins. Glad I didn't get hurt trying that

@Katdo: Me too! (With what you said about Adele)

Yeah sameeeeeee

The dumbest thing I though was that being an adult would be much better than being a child...let's all laugh together.

For some reason I thought "nautical" meant silly or stupid.

Edited by TropesForever on Apr 30th 2019 at 11:25:02 PM