Stupid things you thought when you were little!

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I remember saying "dorp" instead of "dork" in grade 3 and up until I was 16 or 17, I was insulted by the word "intuitive". Intuition to me meant stupidity.

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I thought that adults knew what they were talking about most of the time...

I believed in god.

When I was really young. I believed my parents went out and set up roadside signs before we'd go on trips around Oregon.

I thought my vicar was Jesus and/or God, despite the fact that we used to go to his house for tea.

If lightening hit anywhere around me (like miles around) it would kill me, if i got too close to a cow it'd attack/kick me, same with horses, a chipmunk hole in my yard was a hole in a roof of a mine. My dad apparently thought it was funny to tell me BS that he knew I'd believe because i was like 3.

I thought that if I chopped a dolls hair off it would grow back
I thought that being popular was something that could be learn't.
I thought that if I photo-copied my body, there would be a clone of me inside the photocopier database.

I used to believe I could fly.

This is because I used to watch Astro-Boy (the original series), a lot. A recurring theme were robots who didn't *know* they were robots, and their makers used to use all sorts of strategies to make sure they didn't find out -- but of course they did.
After my first few weeks of Kindergarten, where all the kids would play together and just knew how to do that without being told how, I realised that I must be a robot, too, and one day my parents would tell me.
And that would be okay, because most of the robots in the Astro-Boy cartoon could fly

I used to think the TV commercials for upcoming movies were actually the movies themselves and not just advertisements. (I still have a problem with trailers being very predictable as to the movie's outcome.)

I can still remember random friends coming up to me saying, "We should see that movie this weekend." And I would honestly reply, "No, I've already seen it." That would lead to an incriminating rebuttal along the lines of "liar, liar, pants on fire."

Oh well.

I could also lie sometimes in preschool and kindergarten and believe my own lies immeditely after I said them.

I thought if you swallowed your chewing gum it stayed in your stomach for five years!

In third grade or so, I was sent to the speech teacher so I could play 'chutes & ladders' and other fun stuff for a little time each day at school
I thought they were trying to get rid of my British accent, since I knew I was born in England to an English Mum and was adopted by an American family.
Everyone else kept lying to me saying that it was because I couldn't pronounce my 'R's...
my sister's name... Laura sounded more like Lowa when I said it.

Briefly I used to believe that if you turned off the tv, the tv shows or whatever was on tv would continue when I returned. This was a time when VCRs didn't even exist

A girl I know used to believe that if you swallowed a seed, a tree would grow inside

I was in French Immersion from a very young age.

I thought the teachers might have made up the language I was learning. That it was all a conspiracy to deceive the kids: it wasn't really French, and if I ever tried to speak to real French people, they wouldn't understand a word I said.

One time I walked on the neighbor’s yard after the father had laid down fertilizer. The neighbor kid pointed to the poison warning symbol on the fertilizer bag told me that the fertilizer would go through my shoes and skin, go into my blood, and poison me. I believed him and started crying.

I thought lasanga had rocks in it but it was just the meat!

Also, there used to be a store near where I grew up called the Sewing Center. Both me and my brother thought that it was the "sueing" center (i.e. where you go to bring a lawsuit against someone). When someone made me angry I used to threaten to go to the Sewing Center and sue them. Maybe they thought I was going to go and make an embroidery out of them.