As I kid I used to think...

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What did you used to think as a kid, before you learnt the reality? NTs feel free to answer too, as it's not Autism-related.

As a kid I used to think...

...that girls were only made in the womb, and didn't know where boys come from

...that if you see a policeman he will come and arrest you

...that the sky was like a dome over the Earth (before I learnt the Earth is round)

...that no countries were joined on to other countries (every country was a separate land)

...that electricity didn't exist before the 80's

...that you have to run when you're in an airport (probably from watching ''Home Alone'' )

...that all dads must be older than mums

...that the moon always followed the car I was in only

...that my cat was going to attack me in the night (although she never did)

...that electrical objects like a television would still catch fire in water when NOT plugged into the wall

...that grown-ups would believe me if I tell them I had been on an adventure through a vortex I found in the wardrobe

...that all keys were the same (until my grandmother told me that the purpose of keys is to all be different, to keep your home secure)

...that 20-year-olds were really old

...that if I play about with dandelions I will wet the bed (actually still not sure if that's true or not )

...that you have to point the remote control right precisely on the button (like if you want the video to play you have to point the remote exactly to the ''play'' button on the video player)

...that only men drink beer and only women drink wine

...that planes went really slow in the air

...that my toys will come alive when I'm gone out of the room (I used to close my bedroom door and stand outside my bedroom, trying to see if I can hear my toys come to life so that I can ''catch them out'')

The world was black-and-white before it switched to color in the 1970s

The music on the radio was each band having to wait its turn before playing

I could ride a tricycle across a swimming pool (until I learned about gravity)

Water could be lit on fire

A mountain would attack me at night

I would be abducted by aliens in broad daylight

Vampires lived in the bathtub drain

The Soviets were going to end the world before 1989

that every single tv show was done live

murders on tv shows were real people actually getting killed (common)

people were hollow, and filled with food, and on birthdays people spontaneously grew to accommodate more food for the upcoming year.

the pitch of cars going higher and lower (i think this is the doppler effect) were people deliberately speeding up and slowing down when passing me

Once, during the second grade, I had to take a bathroom break and I wondered if my classmates and teacher partied while I was away.

When I received high scores on some standardized test during the fourth grade, I remember telling my parents that I thought the score was deliberately fudged for the sake of some conspiracy.

In middle school, I used to think that I was so stupid, that other people could hear my thoughts, like how fictional psychics can read other peoples? thoughts, but in reverse.

I'm messed up in the head.

As a kid, I used to wonder if it was really true that adults were kids before they became adults and if I would ever become an adult.

I used to think that talking about God seriously was a sign of mental illness.

I used to think that freight trains were evil and dangerous.

That shoes had a complex system of gears and pulleys connected to your shoelaces that were involved in keeping shoes tied. When they taught me to tie my shoes I was surprised that its all just shoelaces.

When I was a kid:

I thought I lost my penis shorty after I was born

I thought all the characters on TV lived in Langley before I learned about acting

I thought babies started out as a baby seed

I thought that my poo was evil and that I should only go poo after dark in the winter and after supper in the summer

I thought that rock bands and performers were tiny people who lived in the radio

I thought that every major city had Routemasters

I thought hot dogs came from dogs

I thought that witches invented the sandwich

Girls hair had magical properties.

There was a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

Back when I used to live in Gulf Harbors in 2000-02 I thought there was a huge machine somewhere in the middle of Florida that constantly produced huge storms because there always seemed to be storms there in the summer afternoon that sometimes blew toward the coast.

The noise the wood cutting machine made at Home Depot was from a big wood eating monster.

From 8 to 13 that religion was crazy (not anymore now!)

The eyes of hurricanes contained massive whirlpools that sucked everything in.

Tornadoes vacuumed everything into some place in the sky like Oz.

The vacuum ate up everything it ran into except furniture.

The Civil War and World War One were the same thing.

After 9/11 I thought we would get bombed and invaded by a huge powerful Mordor-like country in the Middle East (it is kind of like Mordor but is actually made of several smaller constantly squabbling nations and our military is the one that is much more powerful).

The bigger the vehicle, the faster it goes.

I used to think that I had to make an effort to look healthy whenever I saw an ambulance, otherwise it could pull up and take me to hospital, against my wishes.

.....that my parents could read my thoughts.

.....that I would die at the age of 28.




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- That I was fated to be famous because all kids seemed to remember me and I couldn't recognize any of them. (In fact it was due to my odd behavior and prosopagnosia)
- That everyone is my friend.
- That boys pee using their fingers.
- That people wear clothes in the summer because of some stupid tradition.
- That snails are happy when I bring them on my balcony on 3rd floor because they can see the world from height.
- That dry grass spots are traces of a monster named Chochołak. It was a 4 floor height being made of straw, kidnapping children that don't sleep at 11PM. My grandma tried to make me sleep this way - but it didn't work. Instead of falling asleep I was pretending to be asleep and I was waiting to see if Chochołak really shows up. But he never did. Too bad. I was really curious where he takes all the children...
- That if I get an orange cat and name him Nikan he is going to speak. Of course it didn't work. Perhaps that's because the cats name was supposed to actually be Mikan, not Nikan?
- That I can fly using an umbrella, blanket or plastic bags.
- That I can get enough gas balloons to fly.
- That a train is going to appear out of nowhere and kill me if I step on a railroad.
- That a "no trespassing" sign is a warning something very, very bad is going to happen if you go there.
- That some of my dreams were real (a snow in summer, an UFO in my city, a underground world entrance in swimming pool, ability to fly using crossed legs technique).
- That some characters from my dreams really exist and they just visit me at night.
- That I was adopted.
- That I have a twin sister on another planet where I also come from.
- That I am a supernatural being trapped in human body.
- That I am a witch and one day I am going to get a letter from Hogwart.
- That I can move objects without touching them but I can't control it (there were some coincidences that made me think so, for example one time I looked at a painting and the same moment it fell off the wall).
- That it would be profitable to start a McDonalds restaurant in the surburbs of my city (small, unknown, non-tourist).

...that the legal age of swearing was 27 years old.

...that human teeth can grow back no matter how many times you lose theme much like shark's teeth.

...that fire can't hurt you and is safe to play with.

...that cartoon characters are real and not just drawings with real people's voices.

...that adults have always been adults physically, and not children once.

...that Pluto (then a Planet) was named after Mickey Mouse's dog

I thought they were all obtained at the hospital and brought home.

I had a relative that was a cop that used to fly off the handle at the drop of a hat and threaten to beat his kids to death. It took me until I was 10 to learn that he was mostly all bluster but until then I was terrified of that man and ALL cops.

Not that but I thought the clouds were heaven.

I thought all states were separated by rivers. Because of that I thought West Virginia and Pennsylvania were one on the same and only Ohio was different since there was the river separating it from Pa/W.Va. I was surprised when I found out that not everyone lives in close proximity to another state or two.

Adults talked like they had nothing as kids. And that they had to walk 20 miles uphill both ways through snow to get to school where they were beaten for several hours by teachers, cafeteria help, and janitors only to have to walk 20 miles home (again uphill and in the snow) to be beaten to sleep by their dads.


This for sure since it was most often the case in my experience up to a point.

I equated our dogs to a humans. Now I hold dogs above humans.


Sounds like one of my old man's irrational fears when he was being particularly paranoid.


Yep

I remember thinking anyone over 12 was old.



Yep. Men usually just drank cheap beer in cans, too. My old man actually put salt in his beer.

I thought mine had feelings. I didn't think (or care) that people did but toys definitely had feelings.

My grandmother was alive when the dinosaurs were
Some people didn't have faces so that was why they wore so much makeup (that sounds creepy now, but it didn't then)
Most other children were robots (that didn't seem weird either)

I used to think that I only got bigger on my birthday. I've stopped growing now, so I'll never know whether that one was true or not.

And I used to think that all famous people knew each other. I still do think that sometimes.

And I used to think, bread that came in a green bag was cheese and onion flavoured. I still think that as well sometimes.

I find it hard to get my head around certain realities.

I thought:

that South America was another name for Africa. (The two continents are sort of the same shape...) I remember the wonder and awe I felt when I learned they were two separate places.

that you could only buy chicken nuggets at a restaurant.

that a chopper and a helicopter were two different types of aircraft.