As I kid I used to think...

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I thought that trees literally gave you life.

I had no idea what languages South America spoke.

I used to think that milk would spoil in your stomach (but I had no problem with unmelted cheese* or ice cream).

*I had a thing about melted cheese for years and years after eating some burnt macaroni and cheese.

I can't remember thinking anything at all
I just absorbed it all

That children under puberty age can't be uncles or aunts.

i thought my uncle was the cartoonist behind Calvin and Hobbes because he was the one that gave me my first treasury. and "Bill Watterson" was only his pen name.

I used to think adults knew EVERYTHING. In fact, it was a bit of a culture shock once I realized that I had become one of them and that I knew more or less as much as other 'adults'. Then the news made a lot more sense.

I used to think I didn't need to say much because people just "knew" what I knew (I guess that's where "mind-blindness" comes in)

thought i would never be an adult because it took forever.
...even right now, i guess i'm not at that stage completely yet!

I thought that somehow it must be possible to extract the shininess that I saw in the veins of leaves in sunlight, and with this substance, I could paint myself to become invisible.

I was shocked at about age eight to find out that my grandparents were married to each other.

Until about the same age, I thought that marriage when you grew up was something mandatory.

So you thought that your grandparents were outlaws? Or that they were married to someone else?

True horror is realizing that the guys you went to highschool with are running the country - samuel clemens

I thought that girls didn't poop.
I thought I would die young.
I thought that people actually died in real life when they were killed in the movies.
I thought rock musicians were the greatest things ever and they could do no wrong.
I thought I'd be alone forever. (Actually, this turned out to be true).

Nice quote!

... that my parents lied about my age and birthdate and I was actually way older...
... that parents got to pick what gender their babies were...
... that daddies knew everything, and mommies could fix everything...
... that grandma's ham was the best...
... that mushrooms were magic and made you see trolls and fairies...
... that my imaginary friends were real...
... that I was adopted (I'm not adopted xD)
... That my mom and I were the same person, but I was her as a child brought back from the past and that that was how children were "born", just brought from the past into the future...
... That chips were scary and evil, and mcdonalds made kids have meltdowns...
... That all the stuff flushed down toilets was brought to a big landfill and then they used it as dirt...
... that weed was actually weeds like you find in the garden, and that the people on TV made cigarettes from garden weeds xD
.... That watching TV too much would make your eyes go square...
... That I was actually the only child in the world, and all the other children were just my imagination...
... That children were delivered by Santa...
... That Santa was my dad...
... That only smart people had beards and thinking really hard would make a beard grow...
...That my mom ACTUALLY STOLE MY NOSE....
... That all school was taught in a log cabin and the teachers were all kind cats with glasses and my classmates would all be bears and other woodland animals...
... That I would die if I held my breath for too long...
... and that the whole world was just imagined by me, and maybe I was someone else in another world who was just imagining me, or that I was a book character or a TV character and my life was a movie...

I used to think a lot of weird things, but these aren't the weirdest ^^
I was the weirdest kid ever...

i used to think this too.

i still think this.

Neither. Gram and Gramp were just Gram and Gramp. That marriage was involved between them never occurred to me. Someone probably said something to me like, "When you grow up and get married..." which caused me to believe this was an inevitable fate. But it never connected in my mind with Gram and Gramp's relationship.

When I was posting this on this thread, I could see this is another example of my astonishing ability to compartmentalize both knowledge and experience and an inability to generalize.

As several others have said here, I also suspected that I had been adopted. Is this common for children in general, or is it more common for those of us on the spectrum, I wonder?

That all doves were just female pigeons