‘What are some strange beliefs that you used to have as a child?’ – 17 charmingly naive misconceptions that make perfect sense when you’re a kid
10.
‘That my stuffed animals would get jealous of who got to sleep directly next to me, so I’d rotate the toys out to keep it fair.’
-Waxen_Cashew
11.
‘When I was like 6, my mom used to run red lights. A lot. I’d be like mom you can’t go on red. My mom would say, “That one wasn’t for us.” I spent much of my youth wondering how tf do people know what red lights are ok to drive through. Which ones are for us?’
-Sendeezy
12.
‘When I was kid, I thought a baby shower was when women get together at someone’s house and fill up a bathtub to shower the pregnant women before she gives birth lol’
-vanillasky687
13.
‘That I really had to watch out for quicksand (thank you The Neverending Story)’
-Gimmeamango
14.
‘When I first heard the term “bun in the oven” referring to pregnancy, I thought people were cooked into existing. On top of that, I thought that different skin tones/colors were due to how long we were left in the “oven”.
‘I also used to think that the rain was God pissing on us.’
-VengefulJedi
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‘That I should write my name and the date REALLY tiny and inconspicuous on all the furniture in my bedroom …because if our house was bombed or archeologists uncovered pieces of our stuff in a thousand years they would know who had lived there??? Idk I think I read way too many historical fiction books in elementary school’
-bananagahan
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‘Regarding grocery stores, I used to think only the items marked “on sale” were available to purchase’
-Global_Pangolin_4345
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‘I thought my mother, years before I was born, was Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, and we all just didn’t talk about it.
‘For me it was a given.
‘Mom really did resemble Judy Garland, but couldn’t sing worth a damn. Also she was born in 1939, the year the film came out, so I needed to revise my thinking some time ago.’
-Caudebec39
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