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silly things you used to believe
and i'm not talking about santa clause, god, or satan. case point:
when i was a kid before i knew what sex was i believed that girls and boys had different genital anatomy just for the sake of being different from each other and that of course girls had vaginas because girls were always prettier than boys.
it wasn't until i was in college that i learned that the cold war refers to a war that's not being actively fought (as opposed to a "hot"war in which there is active combat). up until then i believed that the cold war referred to the u.s. and russia acting coldly towards each other. my american history major friends laughed and said that they had never thought about it that way before.
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.
share!
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when i was a kid, someone once told me that doing star jumps would make you unable to have babies because it would damage your insides. for many years, i absolutely refused to do star jumps during school sports.
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When I was young, probably 8 or so, I heard weird noises from my parent's bedroom, and thought there was a robber in the house. The next day, when I was scared and freaking out, my mom was trying to explain sex to me without explaining sex, so she said "well, sometimes people stroke each other, and it feels so good that they moan". I sat in bed night after night trying to figure out why stroking my back didn't make me moan ::) lol.
I know I have more, I just have to think...
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Darcy Foxx
when i was a kid, someone once told me that doing star jumps would make you unable to have babies because it would damage your insides. for many years, i absolutely refused to do star jumps during school sports.
Star jumps? Are those like jumping jacks?
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Darcy Foxx
when i was a kid, someone once told me that doing star jumps would make you unable to have babies because it would damage your insides. for many years, i absolutely refused to do star jumps during school sports.
star jumps? are these similar to jumping jacks?
and I never knew about the cold war thing! Wow!
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Yeah, star jumps, jumping jacks... same thing. we call em star jumps here!
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I thought you could get pregnant from kissing.
I also thought there was a big movie screen when you die that shows everyone what you did every minute of your life, someone must have told me that don't know who, but I was real careful about picking my nose and stuff.
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buffie06
I thought you could get pregnant from kissing.
That's exactly what I thought when I was a kid ! I even told a girl I liked "let's kiss and make a baby". :)
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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 ::)
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When I was little, I used to think that chocolate milk came from brown cows.. :P
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Once when I was little, I found "balloons" filled them with water. Continued outside to the cookout to have some fun with my dad. Little did I know that they were condoms and my grandma was not amused to be hit by one.
I also believed that ou have to be married and love each other so much that god would give you a baby
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When I was VERY young, like 3 or 4, I thought that broccoli were little trees so if you ate broccoli, you were eating baby trees.
Also several kids in my kindergarten/1st grade thought that if a black person and white person had a baby they would make a mexican(?) (I was always just perplexed by this 'belief' but never questioned it amongst my classmates.)That's probably the most embarassing!
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These have me laughing so hard.
I love the black and white make a Mexican.
I used to think that gum really stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it, until recently i believed this.
There was an adult shop near my house when i was little that said video arcade on their outdoor sign and i used to think they had naughty video games where maybe you simulated sex (or what I believed was sex) with animated characters. I remember thinking it was kinda like the naughty version of mario bros where he does nasty things to the princess hahaha
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i thought that sex and fucking were two completely different things. I know they are moraly, which my mom taught me, but i thought they were two different completly different acts.
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When I was younger like 5 or 6 I didnt know what "fucking " was. Well I had a mean spirited cousin who told me I could get a girl pregnet by "fucking" her, of course he didnt explain what that was. SO For YEARS I absolutly would not give ANYONE the finger, because I didnt want to get them pregos by "fucking" them:O
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phillyvixen
I used to think that gum really stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it
I thought this too!
I used to believe that whenever you saw one of the clouds with sun rays coming from it, that this was the cloud God lived on.
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I thought that water beds contained fish and other sea creatures. This was because of a book called "There's a sea in my bedroom" I think or maybe it was a cartoon.
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hmm when i was 4....my mom used to buy me nestle crunch....for some reason i thought they were called "nasty crunches" and my mom used to remind me, "dont eat the foil!" and i , for some reason thought the "foil" was the back of the nestle crunch(you know how its all bumpy?) so i ate the candy bar in a weird way trying to avoid eating the back of it. haha stupid.
i used to think babies came out of the moms bellybutton, and u sealed it with a stamp after giving birth. (dont know what made me think this up)
i used to think that if u ate apple seeds, it would stay in yer stomach, and the food u ate would bury it like dirt, and the water u drank would water it. and eventually it would come growing out of your mouth! nooooooooo! lol
i used to think if u swallowed gum, it got stuck on yer bones!
i think there was more but this is all i can remeber now!
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My sister told me when i was little that cows strained their poop to make milk. Fortunately i didn't believe it, but it was damn funny she tried to get me to believe it.
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My friend told me Spaghetto O's were made from apples, and that the factory just ground up whole apples, worms and all. That's where you get protien from in Spaghetti O's. Worms.
I stopped eating them that day and never had them again.
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I used to think stuffed animals had feelings, and they would be sad if I didn't give them all equal attention.
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oh, I remembered another one.
My parents let me watch a scary movie about dolls that came alive and killed people. I loved baby dolls and have a whole army of them. I had dolls that peed, pooped, cried, talked, ate....
Anyway. After that movie, I put all my dolls in the dog crate and put padlocks on the crate door. I was convinced my dolls came alive at night when I slept, and the only reason they never killed me cause I was nice to them, and I was worried that putting them in the crate would make them mad at me and they would hurt me, but at the same time, I was scared of my dolls comming alive. So I put locks on the door.
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I loved picking up snail shells in Cali when I was little, I thought the snail would come back if I had it.
My stuffed animals were real, I would tuck them in with a blanket on the shelf everynight.
If you broke a mirror, my mom told me it was bad luck. When I was six, I broke my big mirror and hid it afraid.
When you died, you got to be a ghost and visit and talk to people.
When you grew up you got to get a house, I tried to grow fast so I could give my mom my house.- so silly!
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Up until about fourth grade, I thought your poop matched your skin color.
I mean, I saw a lot of old white-frosted poop from the neighbor's white-furred dog, and my poop was brown, so it just made sense to me.
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I believed that fig newtons were filled with camel poo for a good majority of my childhood.