Stupid things that you believed when you were a kid

[SaShman]

Ah, yes. We were all kids once. What are some of the stupid things that you believed back then?

I remember when I was about 5 we learned about Australian history in school. Which could essentially be summarized as "the Aborigines lived here, then the white man came and fucked it up." Back then I interpreted the term "the white man" literally as a man dressed in white. I imagined some evil guy in a white astronaut suit was responsible for all the bad things in Australia. Turns out the term actually referred to people like me.

I thought that kicking someone in the nuts could kill them. I was probably told so because people don't like getting kicked in the nuts.

I also believed that the 'dunny' and 'loo' were named after people called Danny and Lew respectively.

 

[Marquis of Granby]

i was told a "ghost story" once about a lion that lived under a bridge and a man went down and cut it's tail off while it was sleeping and then it came back to the man every night. at the bottom of his bed and if his feet stuck out passed the bottom of the bed the lion would eat them...

i believed for the longest time that there was a lion without a tail waiting at the botton of my bed waiting to eat my feet.

 

[Linnaete]

I was told as a little girl that babies are made in heaven just above the clouds and that storks would deliver them down from heaven all nicely wrapped up in white. Apparently I would ask my parents for a pair of binoculars or even a telescope just to watch the babies being made in the sky, and that at night I would lie awake wondering if a stork was ever going to deliver a baby to me so that I could play with one.

I developed a slight phobia for chewing gum and toothpaste while I was in primary school. I was convinced that if I swallowed even the smallest amount of gum or toothpaste, I would suffocate and die.

And I won't be surprised if it turns out that I once tried to come up with a plan to get to China by digging a big enough tunnel through the ground. I don't remember doing it, but from what the mother said, I sort of had a go at it. I wonder how far I got.

 

[Starships]

That when you go to jail, for the main punishment, they make you eat only paint and glue.

 

[Saints&Storms]

I can't say I believed in too many silly things as a kid; but there is one that I still remember -- I used to believe that me and my siblings would never grow up, ;like in Rugrats, because they never grew any older, I guess as a kid the show seemed cool to me and it took for ever for a birthday to come, so it seemed likely to me.

I also believed that every Baby Doll was like Chucky from Child's Play and wanted nothing more to do then kill me, kinda scary but its what I thought

 

[Jack's Smirking Revenge]

i believed for years that my belly button was where my gran finished knitting me

 

[Bambi]

I believed in God, kids will believe anything.

 

[Lirael]

I was told as a little girl that babies are made in heaven just above the clouds and that storks would deliver them down from heaven all nicely wrapped up in white. Apparently I would ask my parents for a pair of binoculars or even a telescope just to watch the babies being made in the sky, and that at night I would lie awake wondering if a stork was ever going to deliver a baby to me so that I could play with one.

i believed for years that my belly button was where my gran finished knitting me

These two are absolutely adorable.

I used to pretend that I had imaginary pets... but I don't think I believed they were actually there. :/ I used to wish they were.

Uhm... Apart from Santa and the tooth fairy, I mainly believed in what made me feel afraid. One kid told me, for example, that if I saw a red ghost on halloween, I'd die. I kept my eyes closed for most of the night to avoid death if one appeared.

 

[Donald Trump]

My dad took me to see Mars Attacks when I was a kiddy and it scared the shit out of me. So I always used to sleep with the door closed because that way it would be harder for Martians to attack me. They may be able to travel through space, but door handles are a bit too complicated for them.
Besides that nothing really sticks out, kiddies are naive and think people are nice etc etc. Apparently I enjoyed Sunday School the couple of times I went, I don't think I did, but I may just remember disliking because I don't particularly like the idea of Sunday Schools.

 

[Rapture]

I was told as a little girl that babies are made in heaven just above the clouds and that storks would deliver them down from heaven all nicely wrapped up in white. Apparently I would ask my parents for a pair of binoculars or even a telescope just to watch the babies being made in the sky, and that at night I would lie awake wondering if a stork was ever going to deliver a baby to me so that I could play with one.

Aw. So cute

As far as what I believed when I was a kid...

I believed in Santa until I was 8 Until I started finding Christmas presents in my parent's closet in early December one year and that kinda stopped.

The worst thing for me was gum though. I had a horrible incident with gum when I was pretty young. My mom got me this giant thing of that grape bubblegum and I swallowed a piece after we had some brownies one night for dessert...and I ended up getting very sick that night and one thing led to another... Since then I'll never swallow another stick of gum. It was awful. I'm convinced gum and your digestive tract do not mix....no matter what some people may say.

 

[Yaoi Master Gavin]

I believed in God, kids will believe anything.

I laughed at that.

I used to believe people were decent. Turned out this world is full of cunts that would be better off fertilizing my herb garden.

Also used to believe that it was a physical impossibility there could be monsters under my bed because under my bed instead were huge roll out tubs of legos.

And I still believe legos are the best damn non-electric toy on this planet.

 

[Coco]

Aw. So cute

As far as what I believed when I was a kid...

I believed in Santa until I was 8 Until I started finding Christmas presents in my parent's closet in early December one year and that kinda stopped.

I believed in him until I was almost 10

I particularly remember that when my sister was born (I'm the eldest), I asked my mom where she came from and she told me babies were bought from a special store. I believed it for years.

 

[Squid]

You know I can't think of one stupid thing I used to believe in as a kid I was very unimaginative. My parents told me about Santa early, they tried to let me believe in the tooth fairy but I had turned her into a pedophile or something in my mind and got so worked up and scared of her that my parents had to say she's not real on the first night I expected a visit.

They also tried the Easter bunny but my mind had turned it into a bunny of death made of mould and other disgusting things who wanted nothing other than to kill me rather than leave me nice chocolates so the rents had to tell me the truth about him too.

 

[ShadowStar Mila]

I never really believed alot of stuff I was told when I was kid thats maybe cause I like to find out and do everything on my own, beleiving in what other people say is not my thing. I remember yers ago I saw a present that said from santa on it, I laughed when I got that gift cause I saw the same santa print name card in the store the day before xD

 

[Martel]

Well, asides from the standard phobia of monsters underneath my bed, in my cupboard, and roaming around downstairs at 3 in the morning (that was actually my father getting ready to go to work), Mother once told me that if I picked my nose too much my brains would fall out. I'd keep doing it anyway, telling myself that'd never happen to me, but I remember going absolutely hysterical once when I was about seven, as I made my nose bleed as a result of excessive picking, pinched it to get it to stop, and then sneezed out a blood clot. I was convinced that was a part of my brain, and that the rest was going to come tumbling out of my nose at any second. Mother found that quite funny, and it did get me to stop picking my nose, although I was rather distraught at the time, convinced I was going to die

Oh, I also used to believe that Final Fantasy XIII might actually be a good game, and that people bashing it before it was out might be wrong about it.

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

I believed that if you swallowed chewing gum that it would get stuck on your heart.

I think my mum told me that and so I never ever even wanted to have chewing gum, until I got older and found out that it wasn't true.

I also used to believe that my Poppys fingers were bitten off by his pet Cockatoo. He told me that's what happened. I think he said it so we would never put our fingers in the cage.

Wasn't until I got older that I found out that when he was young, his older brother chopped them off with an axe.

 

[Rydia]

In order to keep me and my friends from going down to the lake at my uncle's house with out adult supervision. My brother told us that there was a monster living in it. That kept us away for a long time. It's weird, because I still can't look at the lake with out thinking about a monster. Not that I believe that there is one in there.

And I did at one point believe in Santa Clause, the tooth fairy, and the easter bunny. I also believed in ghosts and that if you walked through a cemetary at midnight you would see them. I don't recall anyone ever telling me that. I might have seen it on a tv show or a movie.

 

[Tyler Breeze]

I believed the usual "there's a monster in the closet! ZOMGZ!" Except mines was that my giant Pinocchio plush would come to life and attack me. XD

I believed that there was a murderer waiting for me every time I got out the shower.

That's all I got.

 

[Twilight Sky]

I thought I could be Gizmo Duck. Yes I wanted to be awesome like Gizmo Duck. Transform and all that.

I believed my mom was Santa Clause in disguise.

I believed rain water was safe to drink, so I took a glass and held it in the held while it rained. The water was dirty, so I didn't take one sip haha.

I believed male and females had the same genitals - gotta love being a total innocent little 8 yr old not exposed to very much. I am not kidding. I am not telling how I found out that it was otherwise either.

 

[Luminas]

This is sad, but my folks when I was an child used to feed me Liver and Onions, which I absolutely hate. I rather go hungry then eat it but anywho... they always told me I was eatting steak.
They tell me all the time "You always ate seconds when we ate it."