When I was young, one of my relatives told me if I see nudity or naughty things, I will go blind. I believe it until a few years later.
"CHICKEN JOCKEY!"![]()
That's kinda sus.
When I was a kid, I thought that “cousin” just meant a really close friend. I believed that at least up until first grade.
I’m gonna put some Gloom in your eye.I don't know if I've posted this before but
When I was a kid, outside of my parents, my sister was the smartest person I knew. She was always praised by our parents for getting high grades from classes such as math and science, probably the only subject she was bad at was P.E/Phys Ed.
Cut to me, young TAITC at Kindergarten, talking to friends about math. One of my friends asks us the impossible question of 100 plus 100. Judging by the fact that 100 was the biggest number we knew at the time, this was an impossible question as we were never told what went after the number 100. And this question stumped everyone involved in our dumb little kid brains.
Then school ended and I had to go home. And when my sister was just lounging around, I had the brilliant idea to ask her about the question. And, since she's 3 years older than me, and already dealing with multiplication, she answered correctly. And for the rest of that year, I treated her like a god.
1 year after this, I learned multiplication and figured out that I was a fucking moron.
"...This is too much information for a brain that just wants to visit Planet Tensuns..."Also, in EverQuest (the first mmo I played) I thought the term "mob" was an acronym for "monster or beast".
In my late elementary school days, when my mom listened to "Bad Romance", I would think along the lines of, “Am I allowed to pay attention to this song? I first overheard it on MuchMusic, and my mom told me that a lot of stuff on that channel is inappropriate for my age.”
I thought my eye floaters were bubbles, and told my mom I was "looking at the bubbles" once when she asked what I was staring at.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI thought Slipping a Mickey had something to do with Mickey Mouse. I had heard the term in some old movies and cartoons, but didn't really understand what it meant.
Edited by Bootlebat on Aug 16th 2022 at 5:14:29 AM
the first time I encountered that phrase it was being used as a pun - some book on display in the science fiction section of a bookstore was titled Illegal Aliens, complete with cover art of humanoid aliens hiding behind crates in what looked like a ship's hold. My mom was there and explained as best she could though
Edited by MikeK on Aug 17th 2022 at 4:23:40 AM
- I had very cartoonish beliefs on why I thought you needed to be Too Smart for Strangers. When I heard the "don't take candy" thing, I didn't think of luring; I thought of poison. And when I heard not to accept gifts from strangers, I imagined a gift box with a bomb in it, and when my parents expressed fear at strangers "stealing" me, I imagined them doing it with a massive butterfly net.
- My mother's to blame for this one — she told me that "dream fairies" existed, who manipulated your dreams with their fairy dust and made sure you had happy dreams, and I believed every word of it, to the point where I'd leave "sacrifices" (flowers, sugar, etc) for them. It started just as a bribe ("Keep your voice down because it's evening time and the dream fairies don't like it when people shout in the evening") but she just kept making more and more stuff up.
I used to hang out with this kid in my neighborhood that was always telling me these really weird lies, and I believed them wholeheartedly. He once claimed you could fight the son of the Great Mighty Poo in Conker's Bad Fur Day by jumping into his mouth. Another time he claimed he and his friends made all the music on vgmusic.com with real instruments. There's a lot more, but I don't remember them all.
Edited by kirbman on Aug 18th 2022 at 11:54:39 AM
I thought coffee stirrers could also be used as drinking straws.
The Obsidian Destroyer is the best non-hero unit in WarCraft III.Two other beliefs my mother fed me:
She told me toys occasionally disappeared to this place called "Adventure Land" (I think because she didn't want to admit she was too lazy to help me search for them) and made up all kinds of insane details about this supposed place.
She also told me that she'd met a wizard named "Wizard Wiggle Wand", who made the neighbour's dog sing, the cat fly, the ducks speak Spanish, the sheep pink, and changed a sign from 'Please let buses go first' to 'First buses please let go', and that where he'd been, there was a "buzzy" feeling in the air. My gullible seven-year-old self believed it, to the point where I had psychosomatic buzzing.
For every low there is a high.

I'm still not entirely unconvinced there aren't illegal extraterrestrials.
Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald