Somebody asked about childhood misconceptions people have struggled to shake, and the answers will leave you feeling like an absolute genius

13.

‘I was in my late teens when it dawned on me that Center Parcs isn’t all under that big glass dome.’
–Gratuitous_sax_

14.

‘In church I misheard ‘Thanks be to god’ as ‘Thanks Peter God’, I just assumed that was his full name.’
–Peppl

15.

‘My late FiL was registered blind and also wore hearing aids, and got all his news from an old transistor radio. He thought the new USA president was Barry Kabama.’
–No_Lobster_6931

16.

‘I thought chickens were man-made until I was in my 20s. My now-husband thought it would be funny to point out that you never see them in the wild because they were created in a lab for delicious food. I was skeptical but on the edge of believing until my mid 20s. He still claims it as his best prank ever. Little shit.’
–CrinklyPacket

17.

‘Not me, but on a similar thread someone said that after finding out Santa wasn’t real they assumed reindeers were also fictional. They didn’t question it until they saw one in a zoo or something in their 20s.

Always tickles me whenever I think about it – so logical, so wrong.’
–amcoffeecup

18.

‘I grew up on a cul de sac, there was an elderly man who was blind and used one of those sticks to help guide him. Us curious kids asked him one day how his stick helps him, he said he tells the stick where he wants to go, and it ‘pulls’ him in the right direction. I believed that for far too long, when it dawned on me you couldn’t just talk to it, I assumed they had a programming feature or something.’
–Absentfish

19.

‘I used to think when you ate something and it went down the ‘wrong’ hole it meant that the food would just trickle down, like one of those two pence drop machines, and end up in your feet. The more it happened the more the food would just pile up inside you.’
–iHorror1888

20.

‘When I was about five, my parents were watching the news and there was a story about someone who had gone ‘into Hiding’. I asked why didn’t the police or whoever just go to Hiding and look for them?’
–peachy-fox

21.

‘I’m not sure when I figured it out, but I thought don’t drink and drive meant you can’t drink anything at all whilst driving. I assume because I thought it was distracting? I’d get so stressed with my mum’s drinking her thermos of tea. She found it so funny she didn’t properly explain for years.’
–Shipwrecking_siren

22.

‘Didn’t come up often but the idea of pigs finding truffles in the ground. Like why would you bury some chocolate and have a pig go find it. I guess I thought it was an enrichment activity for pigs, like dog agility or something.’
–Ub3r_Bland

23.

‘Up until fairly recently I just assumed that garlic was green as I would only ever have it as garlic bread and didn’t consider the parsley! It was quite a shock when I realised.’
–raavus_gg

24.

‘I thought cash back at the till was just free money. I was always confused as a child why my mum would only ask for £20 or so and didn’t ask Sainsbury’s for more of this free cash!’
–7hellsbells1

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