Stupid things you thought when you were little!

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i used to believe some of the lies my older brother has been telling me as a little child. everything from the water in the pool being 25% human excrement to getting locked up in an insane asylum for being obsessed with numbers. silly me. that boy has been calling "wolf" so many times, because some of his "lies" were actually true.

Oh no...was the one about the pool true?

When I was about five I thought each country was a planet. lol

No. it would be really gross if it were. yet i heard that 1/5 of the people "pee in the pool." A friend told me"97% of the statistics are innacurate"

When I was about 5, I wanted to hurry up and be an adult so I could understand all the weird stuff in my head. I guess I thought college would 'cure' me or something.

When I was young, I had no sense of scale for things in sci-fi and thus for a while I thought the starship Enterprise was as big as a star destroyer.

There was also a time when I was scared of being haunted by Thomas Jefferson.

I think when I was very young I thought girls had had the same stuff as boys but they were just hiding it somehow.

I assumed the horrible oil fires in Kuwait would burn forever, they would be impossible to put out until the oil flow stopped.

That it only snowed when I was good.

I cried one night thinking back how I lied to someone that day, b/c i thought that someone in hell is always watching me and i will be sent to a terrible hell b/c of lying.

I used to think that stuffed animals came to life at night, and I even had a nightmare that one of them attacked me. Thanks a lot, Toy Story.

I used to suspect the same thing!


When I was into Myst when I was 13 I believed that if I found the right combination of objects and substances, I could make a real linking book!

I thought that as a kid, too ( coming to life, not the attacking part)--- long before Toy Story, though. An old lady told me that toys did this. She meant it as a story, but you know how it is...
I also believed that God looked like the face on the can of Pringles Potato chips. I have no clue why I thought this... just did.

Oh, my! If all my stuffed animals had come to life, I'd have needed a HUGE litterbox!

I remember hearing about "guerilla fighters" on the news, and thought for a good while that apes had learned to fire guns and were attacking people.

I used to think that:

-Black people were black because they had been burnt
-The entrance to the birth canal was on the inner thigh
-"Communist" meant someone who hated America
-There was a very bad man named "Raididar" (after hearing that deep sinister voice on the movie commercials say "Rated R"). I imagined this man dressed like Zorro.
-I was allergic to a certain kind of radio.
-"Lack" meant too much of something.

I used to think that too; it took me... quite a few years to figure out what they actually were (6th grade, I think).

I used to think I was going to grow up to be a gorilla. A friend of the family told me I would have hair on my arms and legs like my father (who, in retrospect, does kinda look like one, at least in matters of far too much dark hair), and then I would become a gorilla. He was joking, but I've never picked up teasing jokes well; I thought I actually would, and it worried me quite a bit.
To go along with that, I also believed at that time that only men could shave any part of their bodies whatsoever, and women were just stuck, so if I did look like a gorilla, I would be screwed.

And when I was about three, I was completely and totally convinced that the Headless Horseman not only existed, but lived in the forest where we lived.

I also thought that women had a pill that they took if they wanted a baby. But they had to be approved for that pill, so they had to meet a bunch of qualifications.