I used to think that black and white photos were photos of a time before colors were invented. Like people all lived in monochrome until we invented color
If this thread is already a thing I'll delete it. I noticed I couldn't find one while trying to search it up so I thought I'd make my own!
The title is pretty self explanatory. What are some dumb things you used to believe when you were a kid? In terms of rules just don't make fun of people for stuff they thought was true in the past. We've all changed since we were children and if it's being posted the person likely doesn't believe it anymore.
Santa & Elfs: My parents really wanted me to stay away from strangers, as I tended to look down and just follow whoever ”looked like” my parents. So they told me Santa was real, but not those you see around, they are perverts and pedofiles. So yeah, I was scared of any men in red clothes. xD And around Christmas, I was terrified of killer elfs. (A combo of that, and my dad loved to tell horror stories).
Faries & mermaids: I dont find these dumb, but what I did was dumb. I was completely sure fairies was real, and they didnt like to be disrespected. It was a feeling between being amazed and scared, I had to punish anyone who disrespected the fairies. Just a lot of trouble. I was also completely sure you just had to swim around in 1 hour in water, to become a mermaid. So I often got sick because I stayed in one spot, and waited in the cold water.
And the song “Turn me on” by Kevin Lyttle, I did not hear or understand anything.
Let me hold you > Let me hold you
Girl caress my body > Gonna cast your body
You got me going crazy > You got it
You turn me on > You turn me off
Turn me on > Turn me off
i used to think when someone had cancer it meant they had literal crabs living inside them. the cancer zodiac sign confused me a lot lmao
i also used to be really confused about the czech republic. in italian it's called 'repubblica ceca' but ceca can also mean blind so i used to think it was literally a country for blind people - which somehow in itself didn't confuse me as a child, but what did confuse me was the fact they had a football team
Creepypastas. Specifically Tails Doll.
It got to the point where I was scared he'd be hiding in my closet.
My mom hated Tapioca and didn’t want to buy us Tapioca pudding when we were younger and begged for it so she’d lie that Tapioca was fish eggs.. and obviously I believed it
That my mom and dad were both 55 years old when I was 5 (they were 30ish at the time)😀
I used to believe that beyond the number 10- it was oney-one, oney-two, oney-three, oney-four… so on.
I always used to draw tongues red for some reason… I hated drawing em pink.
The elf on the shelf was real
Child me didn't know Japan existed lmao. I thought Pokemon was American and that all the kanji characters on Yu-Gi-Oh cards and in shows like Dragonball was just made up.
Don't remember much but
I used to believe that brown colored cows gave chocolate milk and white cows gave your typical white milk lmfao
1. Bloody Mary. Some kids at school told me about it when I was 8 (probably as an attempt to scare me cuz they thought it was funny or something) and I was horrified to be anywhere near mirrors for a whole year afterward.
2. I also believed there was some way to turn into an animal in real life. I remember looking up "How to turn into a lizard?" and found a Yahoo Answers post of someone asking the same question, the only response was clearly intended to be a troll/joke/copypasta, but I believed it due to my naivety. It said something among the lines of the following (in the spoiler):
"Go to KFC and order a 12 chicken wing bucket, eat all of it including the bones, Then, go to the nearest mire(?) and draw a lizard on the ground, then dance fully nude around it chanting "make me a lizard" 54 times. Then, go to sleep. When you wake up, you will be a lizard."
You won't be able to find it anywhere now... but that's actually what it said. Again, it was only intended to be some sort of joke, but I took it literally, and at the school library I tried to reenact it to the best of my ability (Obviously without taking off my clothes or eating chicken bones, since I can't do that) by creating a lizard shape on the table out of a bunch of dominos and dancing around it doing the chant. Then I got kicked out of the library.
3. I used to believe wolves were capable of surviving through lava, and that they were the only animals capable of doing so. No idea why. I guess I just saw wolves portrayed in such an edgy and overpowered way in media and thought they were literally invincible somehow. Lol.