Dumb things you used to believe as a kid

When I was little, one of my parents once read a book to me, but changed all the names so it'd be about me. I spent years believing someone actually wrote a book about me.

Edited by kirbman on Sep 21st 2022 at 5:02:16 PM

Sounds cute. :)

I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.

Reminds me of when I thought my mother had written "Close to You" about me. I was like, "C'mon, I get that I mean the world to you 'cause I'm your daughter and all, but I'm fairly certain that the stars don't have feelings, and I don't attract birds, and no one sprinkled anything in my hair and eyes when I was a baby."

For every low there is a high.

Isn't that meant to be sung to a significant other? At least I thought it was. Huh.

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When I was in preschool, during story time the teacher gave names to the story characters after someone from the class. It was adorable in hindsight.

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When I was a kid, my sister and I watched a video about wacky japanese game shows, and there was one game show where it was like egypt themed and as you were answering the question you would be slowly covered by cloth until you were wrapped up in the cloth like a mummy.

It scarred me cause I was claustrophobic and I thought that the participants died for some reason since they weren't able to get out and it really traumatized me and I had nightmares for a solid week or so.

I personally blame it as the reason for why I'm into bondage now.

Edited by ThatAsianInTheCorner on Sep 20th 2022 at 10:56:21 PM

"As president of KaibaCorp, I declare your argument as invalid!!!"

keep it in your pants please

I remember my mom telling me that I was born via C-section. Since I was like eight years old and no one had given me "the talk" yet, naturally I just assumed that all babies were born that way for a good few years.

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I don't even think I was born via C-Section. My mom's totally fine, no stitches or anything, I just for some reason thought that that was how everyone was born. Just had to CUT IT OPEN. Even then as a kid I still knew that a baby plopping out of a hole that's hardly wider than the top of a water bottle was absolutely stupid.

"As president of KaibaCorp, I declare your argument as invalid!!!"

When I was being born, they tried to pull me out with a suction cup.

Edited by Delibirda on Sep 21st 2022 at 4:27:32 PM

"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”

I thought voice acting was done by feeding a script to a computer & having differently-voiced AIs read it.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

When I was 6, I thought that men could get pregnant too. I also thought that woman only gave birth to baby boys, and men only gave birth to baby girls.

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When I was a toddler, I thought all dogs were boys and all cats were girls.

My mom told me that she thought the same thing at that age.

Edited by StewieGriffin34 on Sep 24th 2022 at 8:06:44 AM

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For the first few years of my life, all the media I consumed showed male doctors and female nurses, so I assumed they were just gender-specific terms for, essentially, the same profession. It took splitting my head open on a piece of furniture, being rushed to get stitches, and having the man attending to me tell me he was a nurse for me to learn the truth.

I thought sedatives and general anesthetics were the same thing.

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I used to think Sonic and Amy were actually dating, rather than Amy just being a Stalker with a Crush.

A great Mascot Mook.

On the subject of Sonic, there was a point in time where I thought that Amy and Cream were the same character. I had these rubbery figures of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy, and there was a point in time where the only Sonic game I could really play was Ultimate Flash Sonic, which by default, had Cream as a playable character instead of Amy.

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I used to believe new super heroes weren't created anymore.

"Hope for our world, tragedy for another."

certainly feels like it

I used to think that if you pointed a laser pointer into someone’s eye, it would explode.

I misread “exposure” as “explosure.”

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When I was little, I thought "BLVD" was a misspelling of "blood."

Edited by StewieGriffin34 on Oct 1st 2022 at 3:37:27 PM

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Here are 2 my mom thought as a kid:

1. That the abbreviation "BLVD" (for boulevard) was short of "beloved".

2. That when traffic signs had "cyn" (for canyon) in their names, it was some Welsh word that she didn't know what meant.

One day when I was in Grade 4 (I think), the teacher mentioned "chick flicks" to me, and said that girls like them because they’re romantic. Since I didn’t know what the words "chick" and "flick" meant in this context, I imagined a cartoon with characters that looked like the title character from Peep and the Big Wide World, complete with a mental image of two of these birds standing romantically with each other at night.

Are we human, or are we dancer?

When I was a kid, I once dressed up as my mother. When my father called me by my mother's name, I cried because I thought he actually thought I was her.

For every low there is a high.

I believed if I flew far enough in Lego Batman 2, I could fly to Metropolis.

"Hope for our world, tragedy for another."

I believed my brother's Superman action figure was really Superman.

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