Dumbest things you believed as a child?

[ArielFlounderSebastian357]

If you eat too many cheeseburgers you'll become one!

 

[Wendy31]

If you swallow a watermelon seed, a watermelon plant will grow in your stomach.

If you drink coffee before you’re old enough to drink coffee, it’ll stunt your growth.

 

[sarahann77]

I thought this for way too long. I thought there was a tv show called Boo that played every Halloween night. It must have been Sha na na's show or something but I thought it was a special Halloween show that aired every year, late 70s/early 80s.

 

[goofyernmost]

We were also told not to chew it in First Communion prep and I still don't. Apparently it's ok to chew it now, but old habits die hard.

I always thought those things would be so much better with just a little peanut butter. However, that was what we were taught as well. I see now, the few times I have entered a church to attend a family thing, that they chew away like a cow with a cud. Seems so disrespectful, but since I don't attend church anymore that seem like it's a bit disrespectful too. so, who am I to judge.

 

[Heather07438]

I grew up believing I was adopted…

When I was very young, my parents had cattle on my grandparents farm and we would drive from the Dallas-Fort Worth area to southern Oklahoma every weekend to help with the cattle.

We would drive through Denison, TX every Friday evening and my older brother would point out this little dive bar called “Joe’s Place” and tell me that’s where his parents found me, in the trash pile. Someone had thrown me away, I was just sitting there with all the trash, and his parents decided to pick me up.

Everyone in our family had brown hair and brown eyes, I have red hair and green eyes. I am a generic nominally. He that fact to push his agenda.

I didn’t want to believe his story, but I finally I asked my mother if it was true. My mother, a very sarcastic person, said yeah, sure. You’re adopted.

Well, I was really shocked and sad that someone would just throw me away. I pondered it for a while and decided that my parents had chosen me, loved me and wanted me. They were just stuck with my brother.

Years later when I was about 12, my mother and I were having a conversation with a group of people and the subject of adoption came up. Well I was happy to share that I had been adopted!

The look on my mothers face with utter confusion and then the truth came out…

That story reminds of my nephew. When he was 4, his older sisters 8&9yo were talking about birthmarks with Mom. He asked why he didn't have a birthmark. Mom joked that's because you were born from an egg. He just shrugged and didnt say anything. A couple years later he brought it up as fact. It turned into the family practical joke and they let him believe it for 2 more years. Finally when he was 8 they let him know it was just a joke. It was kind of a let down; he liked thinking he was different and born from an egg.

 

[hereyago]

I believed I was adopted because I didn’t think I looked like either of my parents lol.

 

[Ariel484]

I thought there were little men who lived in the metal light poles who turned the street lights on and off lmao.

Similarly, I thought the singing coming from the radio was actual live people singing at the very moment inside of the radio.

 

[avengerspoilerer]

The myth of God and Jesus!

 

[Erica_Haley]

The elementary school I went to taught everyone that you got pregnant by showing your knees.

 

[Heather07438]

The elementary school I went to taught everyone that you got pregnant by showing your knees.

That must've made for awkward summers, lol.

We were told birth control only costs five cents. Put a nickel between your knees and hold it there.

 

[bcla]

We were told by a nun in our Holy Communion prep class that chewing the Communion wafer would make Jesus cry. We were to hold it on our tongues until it dissolved. Those things do not dissolve easily, there isn't enough spit in the world. I spent a few years trying, though.

Never done that. I went to a Catholic elementary school but wasn't Catholic. Regardless of one's religious status, all students were required to attend the morning mass on the first Friday of the month. I wasn't supposed to take communion and never did.

We did have a classroom activity where we practiced it, and that wasn't contingent on anything. I somehow got in trouble and the teacher/nun told me to sit down and I wouldn't be participating. That was about the closest I ever got.