As children, we are often credulous and have a vivid imagination. This can lead us to believe things that are unrealistic or even absurd.
A user asked the forum, “What’s something incredibly stupid that you believed as a child?”. Let’s look at the top responses from the forum.
CATS AND DOGS
“Cats were female; dogs were male.”
FLYING IN HELICOPTER
“If you waved at a helicopter, it’d throw down a rope ladder and refuse to leave until you climbed up. I used to make a conscious effort to keep my arms completely straight by my sides in case the pilot misinterpreted me scratching my nose or something.”
MUSIC RADIO
“Thought that the music on the radio was played by live bands at the radio station.”
EATING A SEED
“If I ate a seed, it would grow inside me, and I’d die.”
EACH DAY BEGINS AT 7 AM
“Each new day began at 7 am.
Why I thought this, I do not know. But, despite being allowed to ‘stay up to watch the ball drop and bring in the new year,’ I was convinced the date didn’t change until 7 am each morning.”
HAVING A WHALE IN THEIR BACKYARD
“A new family with a kid my age (7 or 8) moved in next door; they were from Alabama. So I introduced her to all my friends. One day, she pipes up and starts telling us that back in Alabama, everybody has a whale in their backyard.
We’re like a, what? A real whale, with water and everything. We told her to show us a pic of your whale. We expect to see Shamu in a big tank in her backyard, like at SeaWorld. It was well.. Alabamians talk funny. We were so disappointed.”
DOME LIGHT
“That having the dome light on in the car while driving was illegal.”
BERRIES
“Those elderberries were old berries.”
CONTROLLING STOP LIGHTS
“My dad convinced us kids that he could control the stoplights. He did it with a straight face for YEARS.”
OCTOPUS IN THE WATERBED
“That my parents’ waterbed had an octopus living inside that my mom had to feed in secret. It kept the bed stable when they were lying on it and kept the water warm. Idk, man, I had a weird childhood.”
DREAMING OF BECOMING BLACK GOSPEL SINGER
“I have a blonde-haired friend whose childhood dream was to grow up and be a Black gospel singer. She didn’t understand how race worked until she was 6 or 7.
To be fair, I remember being 4 or 5 and thinking my dad was a minority because the rest of my family is pasty white, and he’s a distance runner with a dark tan. I put two and two together before anyone caught my mistake, though.”
ADULTS KNOW EVERYTHING
“Adults know everything.
Adults never do anything wrong.
In addition to that, I believed teachers held the same authority as cops.”
RICE AND POTATOES
“That rice was actually potatoes cut into small pieces.”
DOLLS ARE REAL DEAD BABIES
“My dolls were real babies who had died.”
CHEWING GUM
“My dad told me that if I swallowed my chewing gum, “it would come out the other end.” Because that’s how eating and digesting food normally works, but I still inherently understood that what he was saying was meant to be a warning; I imagined he meant the gum would somehow form a drill and drill its way out through my butt cheek. I had nightmares about this.”
LEGS OF SHEEP
“That sheep has two legs longer on one side than the other so they can balance on the mountain and eat. Made perfect sense – my little brain never considered them turning around or walking up or downhill.”
ELEVATORS ARE MANUALLY RAISED BY STRONG MEN
“I thought elevators were manually raised and lowered by an unseen team of very strong men at the top of the building.”
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