Our favourite 28 weird things people believed as children
So here’s a question posed by @JurrasicArse over on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/JurassicArse/status/893906443304357888
And here are some of the weird and wonderful answers that followed. What were the factually incorrect things YOU believed as a kid?
1.
That one had a finite amount of breath and once yours was gone your time was up. Would be lying in bed shallow breathing
— james coddley (@malmuss) August 5, 2017
2.
Moved house when I was 5. Believed I could still see my old house from my bedroom window. We’d moved from Grimsby to Surrey.
— You Park Like a Cunt (@YPLAC) August 7, 2017
3.
That exhaust pipes propelled cars
— Eoin O’Mahony (@ownohmanny) August 6, 2017
4.
That everything was black and white until coloured tvs were invented.
— Brian Doherty (@Bdoherty84) August 5, 2017
Same
— Garrulous (@JurassicArse) August 5, 2017
A third for that
— Neil (@N5Neil) August 6, 2017
5.
My mam told me that kneeling on grass gave you blood disease. She just hated getting the stains out of my jeans. I believed it til I was 15.
— the dog band (@meandmydog69) August 5, 2017
6.
I thought people were just given their own home as soon as they became adults
— Andy Stardust (@ImACultHero) August 5, 2017
7.
That the headmaster decided all the teachers names and they went back into the craft cupboard at the end of the day… My mum was a teacher
— CORBAE IS MY JAM (@aycenne) August 5, 2017
8.
I was born in a hospital in Paddington, so for many many years I thought Paddington bear gave birth to me
— Esra Doğramacı (@EsraD) August 5, 2017
9.
I used to think I was a child and adults were another race entirely. I didn’t realise I would become an adult.
— Approvedproduct (@approvedproduct) August 5, 2017
10.
That pinching caused diseases
— emma flynn (@mormonhorse) August 5, 2017
11.
That going to Wales on a ferry was going to see whales on a fairy. Was devastated
— Lisa Keogh Finnegan (@lisa_keogh) August 5, 2017
12.
My sister thought bands played every song live on the radio. I discovered this when she asked how they got between radio stations in time.
— ArdentA (@ACardent) August 6, 2017
13.
If you eat bubble gum it will create a trampoline in your stomach and repel other incoming food
— Fintan O’Mahony (@levdavidovic) August 5, 2017
14.
That you couldn’t turn the light on in the car at night because it was illegal and my driving instructor laughed at me
— NIC (@nicolewardxx) August 5, 2017
15.
I still thought that till I read your tweet!!!
— Amanda Corrigan (@ajcorrigan) August 6, 2017
16.
As a kid I believed dogs were boys and cats were girls and that everything before I was born was in black & white
— Garrulous (@JurassicArse) August 5, 2017
17.
No one told me this but I independently thought that when people in films kissed it was like some sort of “fake kiss”/CGI because I thought
— Ellen (@SpellenBee) August 6, 2017
you could only physically kiss people you loved
— Ellen (@SpellenBee) August 6, 2017
18.
That characters who died in films were played by actors who wanted to die
— Micheal (@foxinhisden) August 6, 2017
19.
I thought “fucking” and “sleeping with someone” was two different ways of making children, and that fucking was the nasty way.
— Syster Cicci – EMS (@sinustakykard) August 6, 2017