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Paris
09-06-2007, 08:46 PM
Oh, I also believed that the president (Ronald Reagan) knew absolutely everything. He had to be all-knowing; otherwise how could he be the president? I didn't know exactly what the president did but I imagined him as being right up there with G-d. Evidently I wasn't the only one in the early eighties who thought Reagan was right next to G-d, but at least I was a little kid.
Kind of ironic isn't it, knowing now that he suffered from Alzheimer's, even while he held office.
On a similar note, I thought all adults must know everything. Maybe that's why I still wonder when I get to be "adult".:D
iambonbon05
09-06-2007, 08:56 PM
I used to believe in a sort of a trinity, except Santa Claus was part of it too. I'd ask santa for something for christmas and pray to Jesus and Mary too while I was at it. Haha.
From a little kid I knew about sperm and eggs and all that business but I didn't get the rest of it. I remember asking my mom how the sperm knows when the guy is married to the girl so it's ok to get fertilizing. She never answered me and I still didn't get the whole sex thing until I was 12 or 13. Haha.
Oh and while we're talking about sex organs, I didn't know women had three "holes", I thought we peed out our vaginas. I remember seeing a diagram that showed urethra, vagina and anus and being convinced it was WRONG. I was embarrassingly old too.
missfOxxy
09-06-2007, 09:16 PM
when i was about 7 my mom told me that birth control pills were something you take to avoid getting pregnant each month. for awhile i believed that unless you took these pills you'd automatically end up pregnant (sex was nowhere in the picture), just like that.
i used to believe that too!
missfOxxy
09-06-2007, 09:36 PM
when i was like 5 or 6 i used to believe that 11 pm was "the ghost hour" when ghosts came into your bedroom to check if you are sleeping. i never NEVER opened my eyes after that hour even if i wasn't sleeping.
needtodance
09-06-2007, 09:54 PM
I'm with sun child. i rotated which of my MANY stuffed animals were in bed, so that they ALL felt loved!
MY childhood friends older sister told me that the little balls in tapioca pudding were fish eyes. For years I wouldnt touch the stuff, though it WAS a favorite.
Also, remember teh whole "step on a crack, break your mothers back" thing? When I was little, EVERYONE said that, and i was like "nyah!" and did it intentionally to spite them. Up until my mom fell down the stairs at teh in-laws, broke a little bone in her neck, and nearly ended up in a wheelchair. Now to this day, i STILL won't step on cracks.
Yekhefah
09-06-2007, 09:58 PM
^^^ OMG, I did that! I got pissed off at my mom once when I was seven, and went up and down the sidewalk stomping cracks all afternoon. The next day she ruptured a disk in her back and was in and out of the hospital for months. I was in my late teens before I finally realized it wasn't my fault.
Sunshine73
09-06-2007, 10:11 PM
I thought the boogeyman lived in the heating vents in my house.
BalletBaby
09-06-2007, 11:58 PM
That if you swallowed a black seed from a watermelon while eating it, you will grow a vine of watermelons in your stomach and die ::)
Haha I remember that one.
BalletBaby
09-07-2007, 12:07 AM
I used to think that when there was thunder, that God was playing Bowling.
If it was a loud one, my sis and I would yell "Strrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrike!!!!"
lol
My sister told me that thunder was angels bowling. lol
Yekhefah
09-07-2007, 12:09 AM
I used to think that rain was a flaw in heaven's sewer system.
G-d, I was such a weird kid.
mina loy
09-07-2007, 12:41 AM
to add another one, it wasn't until i actually saw internet porn for the first time that a guy actually pushed in and out. sex up until then as always described as "man putting his penis in a woman's vagina" so i believed that all one had to do was just that: a guy stuck his penis in the vagina and that was that. it wasn't until i saw the porn (i guess i was 17) and i asked my two friends why the couple was moving around like that.
"because it creates the feeling."
oh!
Jezzebelle
09-07-2007, 05:03 AM
I'm with sun child. i rotated which of my MANY stuffed animals were in bed, so that they ALL felt loved!
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I used to have them all in my bed at once and I had about 30 of them. Everytime I woke up in the morning they would be all off the bed and on the floor, I could never figure out how that happened.
Alia_of_the_Knife
09-07-2007, 12:01 PM
I used to think that the warning signs for deer were deer crosswalks.
I always thought that things would be so much easier if everyone in the world just spoke english.
I thought stepping on a crack really would break your mother's back and I always made a conscious effort not to step on them.
I thought that if you broke a glass or plate at a resturant that you would have to wash the dishes of the resturant to make up for what you broke. When I was in kindergarten I was at a really expensive resturant with my family and I accidentally broke a glass. I started crying and begging the waitress to not make me wash the dishes.
JustJayda
09-07-2007, 12:05 PM
When I was at vacation bible school one Summer, they all told us to tell our parents we needed to dress up for our closing "exercises" on Friday.
I convinced my mother, and so....
I was the only kid wearing a leotard in church.:-[
Mastridonicus
09-07-2007, 01:08 PM
That Uncle Ruckus was a doctor :(
BalletBaby
09-07-2007, 01:09 PM
^That's so cute and funny.
ETA: that was to JustJayda
michele_b
09-07-2007, 02:48 PM
to add another one, it wasn't until i actually saw internet porn for the first time that a guy actually pushed in and out. sex up until then as always described as "man putting his penis in a woman's vagina" so i believed that all one had to do was just that: a guy stuck his penis in the vagina and that was that. it wasn't until i saw the porn (i guess i was 17) and i asked my two friends why the couple was moving around like that.
"because it creates the feeling."
oh!
OMG I thought I was the only one who thought that. When I was like in 3rd grade I asked my mom what sex was and she said, well i'll tell you the truth, the men have penises and women have vaginas and the man puts his penis inside of the womans vagina, so I thought for years that men just stuck their dicks in and that was all until I saw something somewhere too, haha :D
Here's one, my stepdad used to work on air conditioners and I would like to go out there and help him, well if you have ever seen a taken apart airconditioner than there are these things that look like macaroni noodles and I thought that they were real macaroni noodles painted the gray color, lol.
Here's another really weird one, I bet i'm the only one with this. I would play with the broom and mop, one day I thought I would play dolls with the broom and mop, lol, I was young, like 5 but I remember. I turned them the other way and the mop looked like it had hair with the strings and the broom looked like it had hair too, but spiky hair like a man, so I thought that they made brooms and mops have genders, lol for kids to play dolls with.
CupCake
09-07-2007, 03:57 PM
awww kids are so imagenitive!;D I love it lol
I used to think you could get pregnant by sitting on a toliet seat
I also use to put ALL of my stuffed animals in my bed, because I thought a monster would eat them if I didn't.lol
I also use to think they was a "ghost hour" but mine was 12 o clock, I would hide under my covers so incase there was a ghost it wouldn't see me lol.
iambonbon05
09-07-2007, 07:38 PM
Oh yeah and I used to think that if you had sex you pretty much automatically got pregnant. So once I started watching movies with sex scenes I didn't get why on earth people had sex all the time haha.
Windy
09-07-2007, 08:11 PM
ok well this isnt really what i used to "beileve" but what i "thought" and they were SILLY. it wasnt even that long ago either.
i never knew pepporoni was meat until i was 13. one day my friend bought a slice of pizza and picked out all of the pepperonis off before she ate it. i asked her why. she reminded me she was a vegitarian. i got confused - wait pepperoni is meat?!
ok this is when i was 17...my friend told me after she graduated h.s, she was going to go to "massuse school". not sure what it was, and judging by the mystical sound of "massuase"(SP!), i thought she met she was going to some school for like palm reading/tarot card reading/etc . i asked "wow theres a school for that stuff now?" she told me, "ha, no a massuse is a massage therapist!"
Lola Rose
09-08-2007, 09:01 AM
when I was a little kid, my parents told me that my doggie was given to this really really old lonely lady. they said letting her keep it was a big mitzvot. (good deed).\
when I was 16ish, I mentioned it to my dad, that I wondered what happened to booboo when the old lady got too old to take c are of him.....
he said the dog really got ran over by a c ar, andf he figured I knew that by now.
I did't, and I was bawling!
i prefered the sweet story about the lonely woman....
phillyvixen
09-08-2007, 09:46 AM
^^ they told us (my bro and I) that they took our dog to a farm so it could run more. I think they lied too. I'm asking my mom today
Katrine
09-08-2007, 11:00 AM
I used to think doing it doggystyle meant it was going in the butt.
One day my little brother told me that there were eggshells in menstrual blood. I had to correct him on that one.
I had no clue that orgasm occurs from direct clitoral stimulation, even though I had rubbed myself on things all my life, which felt nice. NO ONE ever told me, and porn surely doesn't show a woman how to get off. So until 19, I was waiting to "cum" from getting fingered or fucked.
If I ever have a daughter, I am damn sure properly teaching her about her body!
yogibear179
09-08-2007, 01:36 PM
i use to think trees made the wind and when they were moving they were trying to talk to us, catch our attention or were talking among themselfs
i belived in god, kinda
umm.. i belived that when i changed in our locker room that the other girls were always trying to look in that small slit ( between the door and the part of the bathroom) which made me parinoied to pee and change untill everyone was outta there
Broccoli were baby trees
That if i ate the ugliest most lacking serving at the table i would get super powers. For example if there was a plate of cheese bread on the table i would take the least cheesy one, or the smallest one. I figured that if someone was going to hide a superpower ( i thought you could get them by eating something) it would be in the ugliest thing so they could test you
teeth_of_the_hydra
09-08-2007, 02:24 PM
I was pretty sure that some people ate their own poop. I have no idea why I thought this, as I never tried to eat my own poop, nor was I one of those kids who, like, touches poop a lot, but I remember asking my mother about this. In the laundry room one day, I pointed to one of the neighbors and asked, "Mommy, does she eat her own poopie?" My poor mom. Bless her heart.
I thought that having pets like dogs and cats was sort of like a punishment or a curse. When you got a cat or dog, it was something that just happened that you didn't particularly want to happen, but you couldn't get rid of it because that would be mean, and you couldn't kill it because that was against the law... sort of like getting stuck living with your senile mother-in-law. This was because I was raised in an apartment building in NYC where pets were totally forbidden, and I think to make me want a pet less my parents told me over and over that owning cats and dogs was terrible, and even though they were cute and furry it was not something a sane person did. I also watched a lot of The Price Is Right with my babysitter, which seemed to corroborate this notion. Oh, and there weren't any pet stores nearby which sold dogs or cats, there were only the crappy little goldfish stores, so I had all this supporting evidence.
(It's funny how much my parents love their cat now. The building has since slackened its pet policy, and my folks are the proud guardians of a tabby named Poi, who sleeps in bed with them and has a 3-story cat condo, a basket of toys, and her own chair at the dining room table.)
One more. I thought your hair was made of tiny, hollow tubes filled with colored liquid, and that's how your hair got its color. If you cut your hair too short, all the liquid would drain out and your hair would be white or gray. This was why white and gray-haired old ladies always had short haircuts.
mina loy
09-08-2007, 02:59 PM
(It's funny how much my parents love their cat now. The building has since slackened its pet policy, and my folks are the proud guardians of a tabby named Poi, who sleeps in bed with them and has a 3-story cat condo, a basket of toys, and her own chair at the dining room table.)
One more. I thought your hair was made of tiny, hollow tubes filled with colored liquid, and that's how your hair got its color. If you cut your hair too short, all the liquid would drain out and your hair would be white or gray. This was why white and gray-haired old ladies always had short haircuts.
a cat who sleeps in its owners bed, has a 3-story cat condo, a basket of toys, and her own chair is definitely loved. that's awesome that your parents have changed their ways.
the gray hair thing--that's funny.
Casey4Now
09-08-2007, 03:44 PM
I believed that hickeys could get you pregnant (grandmother told me that, I believe what she was trying to say was that it could lead to other things) Imagine the look on my boyfriends face at 16 when I told him I thought I was pregnant and the furthest he ever got was second base! DOH
I also believed that on Christmas eve that Raggety Ann and Andy came alive, that was why they had a heart sewn on their chest.
Yekhefah
09-08-2007, 04:03 PM
I was pretty sure that some people ate their own poop. I have no idea why I thought this...
Some people do. It's called coprophagia.
Casey4Now
09-08-2007, 04:04 PM
Ooh I remember one more...
My mother passed away when I was three and my grandmother raised us. When I was litte I would always ask my grandmother if I was a "good girl" her reply was always "yes" She told me I would always walk away with a puzzled look.
Well after years of me asking, she finally asked me why I always asked her that. I told her that Robin and Donnie (sister and brother) told me that if I was not good my mother was never comeing home. I was puzzled because I was always good, but she never came back.
Needless to say they got in trouble and it was explained to me that she was not comeing home and what had happened and that my mother was in Heaven and watching me from her perch on a cloud. The next time they had to babysit me they told me if I was not good my mother would fall off of her cloud. I WAS a very good girl!
Another one is I had an aunt whose name was Beryl, well she married a man named Milt, imagine my surprize after telling everyone at school that Milton Beryl was comeing from Texas to see me. (after all grandma did say Milt and Beryl was comeing to MI to visit)
austinatalie
09-08-2007, 05:19 PM
i too thought that I could get pregnant from a toilet seat. Also for some reason I got UTIs all the time when I was younger, and I thought this was a sign of being pregnant. I spent a couple of years in constant fear!
NatalieFRPhilly
09-08-2007, 05:47 PM
when I was a little kid, my parents told me that my doggie was given to this really really old lonely lady. they said letting her keep it was a big mitzvot. (good deed).\
when I was 16ish, I mentioned it to my dad, that I wondered what happened to booboo when the old lady got too old to take c are of him.....
he said the dog really got ran over by a c ar, andf he figured I knew that by now.
I did't, and I was bawling!
i prefered the sweet story about the lonely woman....
this happened to me, only it was like 6 months ago. I was at my dad's house in pa and I asked my neighbor where one of his german shepards was (he had 2) he said, "Oh sheba was a bit too much for us and I know this guy who has a farm that needed protection." She was a great guard dog, and in pa there are many farms so I was stupid/naive enough to believe it.:( Then my sister told me that they shot the dog because she was acting out.:'( I wish I never knew.
Circe
09-08-2007, 06:10 PM
I also thought people made babies via kissing as well until 7 or so. Then I didn't understand about ejaculation being necessary until about 10. Ahahahaha...
Buggs
09-08-2007, 06:20 PM
When my sister was little, I told her that if she ate 100 butterflies, she would be able to fly. That was sooo funny watching her catch and chew them. Sometimes, she would show me a butterfly and ask if that was the right kind. I was laughing for a couple of days until my dad found out and beat my ass with a belt.
Paris
09-08-2007, 06:21 PM
I always thought that things would be so much easier if everyone in the world just spoke english.
There are plenty of mature adults that believe that, too. (Or insert any native tounge). Some are elected officials.:O
buffie06
09-09-2007, 12:43 AM
I thought that when you became an adult you got a whole new face. It was b/c I watched TV and it would show a kid and then fast forward to the new adult and they looked nothing alike, I used to pray every night that I would grow up and be pretty.
I used to think there was a little man that lived in my nose and he climbed up and down these stairs inside and I had to hurry up and get the booger before he came down bit my finger (the boogie man).
When anyone died i would cover my private parts in the bathtub for weeks after, because I just knew they were watching me.
I thought people knew what time it was by what tv show was on. When Little House on the Prarie came on it was 3:30, etc.
I thought cigarettes were just rolled up paper, so i rolled some up and lit it on the oven and almost caught the kitchen on fire.
I thought a potato must take a looooooong time to cook b/c it was so hard, so I put one in the microwave oven for 99:99 and it caught fire whe I checked on it later.
I thought it was perfectly fine to kiss relatives if they were girls, I was probably 8-9 me and my girl cousin humped and made out in the back of our caravan whenever we went on family outings.
Windy
09-09-2007, 01:12 AM
hahaha these are funny.
i like yours casey4now...esp the hickey one. i bet yer b/f was damn confused haha!
anyways, i just remebered something stupid i used to think.
you know, like americas most wanted shows or unsolved mysteries, when they would show a re-in-actment of the "crime" or "mystery", i thought the re-in-actments were the crime or mystery ACTUALLY happening, live. so i thought "why cant they just catch the muderer now, instead of just filiming him doing the CRIME?!"
(hope that made sense lol)
JustJayda
09-09-2007, 04:46 AM
you know, like americas most wanted shows or unsolved mysteries, when they would show a re-in-actment of the "crime" or "mystery", i thought the re-in-actments were the crime or mystery ACTUALLY happening, live. so i thought "why cant they just catch the muderer now, instead of just filiming him doing the CRIME?!"
(hope that made sense lol)
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Yes, makes perfect sense, Hilarious!!!:D
When I was at vacation bible school one Summer, they all told us to tell our parents we needed to dress up for our closing "exercises" on Friday.
I convinced my mother, and so....
I was the only kid wearing a leotard in church.:-[
Noway!!!! :( Its kinda sad but funny at the same time! :(;D
Ooh I remember one more...
My mother passed away when I was three and my grandmother raised us. When I was litte I would always ask my grandmother if I was a "good girl" her reply was always "yes" She told me I would always walk away with a puzzled look.
Well after years of me asking, she finally asked me why I always asked her that. I told her that Robin and Donnie (sister and brother) told me that if I was not good my mother was never comeing home. I was puzzled because I was always good, but she never came back.
Needless to say they got in trouble and it was explained to me that she was not comeing home and what had happened and that my mother was in Heaven and watching me from her perch on a cloud. The next time they had to babysit me they told me if I was not good my mother would fall off of her cloud. I WAS a very good girl!
Another one is I had an aunt whose name was Beryl, well she married a man named Milt, imagine my surprize after telling everyone at school that Milton Beryl was comeing from Texas to see me. (after all grandma did say Milt and Beryl was comeing to MI to visit)
That is AWFUL!!!! :( Im sorry that they did that to you. wtf!
Mastridonicus
09-09-2007, 07:55 AM
The cockroach thread reminded me of this...
When I was in grade school, we learned about how our body had little tiny mites all over us, it was a tangent with pictures that made us ask questions. I had learned before through it's usage in the house that Cock was another word for Penis, and I learned that by misusing it at a friends house (Called my friend a cock, and his brother asked me if I knew what it meant, and he explained it to me)
So I asked my teacher if a CockRoach was a mite that lived on your penis. No lie.
My older brother, told a friend, intentionally so I could hear, that his car was a transformer but he told it not to transform in front of me. So I went out and talked to this old ass white boat car (looked like an el dorado) for hours.
There's more... :D
Yekhefah
09-09-2007, 08:38 AM
^^^ :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
michele_b
09-09-2007, 10:48 AM
I thought of another one. I used to think that if I called 911 on someone or helped someone in some way like that, then I would automatically go to Heaven for calling 911 or helping them out. I don't know why I thought that so I asked my mom one day and she said that alone would not get me into Heaven so I got kind of sad.
missfOxxy
09-09-2007, 02:24 PM
my little brother is 5 and he thinks that if you plant ajonjoli seeds you'll get a hamburguer three
lezmaka
09-09-2007, 04:00 PM
I always saw maxi-pad commercials and thought they were like diapers, and wondered why my parents made me stop wearing diapers if they got to wear them when they were older.
I used to think they were just like diapers too because the used the same blue liquid they used in diaper commercials.
Yekhefah
09-09-2007, 04:55 PM
my little brother is 5 and he thinks that if you plant ajonjoli seeds you'll get a hamburguer three
What are ajonjoli seeds??
When I was about nine I read Mutiny on the Bounty and there was a bunch of stuff in there about breadfruit trees. They grow all over the South Pacific but the fruit doesn't stay good long enough to ship it, so you can't get breadfruit in the continental USA. I had never heard of breadfruit when I read the book, and somehow the repeated references conjured a mental image of bread rolls growing on trees. I was so confused because if bread just grew on trees, why did we put so much effort into baking it from flour and stuff? I asked my mom if we could plant a bread tree in our yard and she told me to stop reading stupid crap. ::)
mina loy
09-09-2007, 09:32 PM
:rotfl: these are awesome! keep them coming!
gingerlee
09-09-2007, 10:05 PM
My mother had a really pretty porcelain figure of a bird on a flower, and she told me it came alive every night, but if I touched it the bird would not be able to come alive anymore. I never touched that thing because I wanted the bird to fly around our house while I was sleeping.
When I was very little I thought mommy's and daddy's had separate bedrooms, because my parents did, so that was just the way it was.
When my mom was pregnant with my little sister she used to have me touch her tummy, and when my sister would move she would call her Thumper. I thought my sister was going to be named Thumper, and I was very upset when I went looking for a kid named Thumper and never found her.
I also thought my baby sister was *MY* baby, and my mom was just taking care of her for me.
I was scared of 'The Great Gurgle'. My mom told me there was a monster in the drain and if I stayed in the tub after all the water was gone he would come get me.
*Wow, I believed some weird shit*
missfOxxy
09-09-2007, 10:51 PM
ajonjoli seeds are those little seeds over the hamburguer bread, sorry i thought it was the same but in english they are sesame seeds
missfOxxy
09-09-2007, 10:56 PM
oh i remembered another one..
after seeing the movie i thought that Jumanji game was real, my cousing brought one to my house and i was so scared. i thought an elephant would destroy my house if i played :'(
Bella21
09-10-2007, 12:10 AM
I thought that if I did anal, I wouldn't lose my virginity.... I guess I'm still kind of confused on where to draw the line on that one, lol.