Stupid things you thought as a kid - we were all dumbasses when we were kids

[Count groudon]

I thought that you could either stop time or become invisible if you closed your eyes and thought about it really hard. My parents actually played along and let me believe this until one day I ruined my grandmother's tv with magnets and was absolutely horrified to find out that she could still see me and move.

 

[tumblrkek]

I didn't get physics at all. I though that only sharp things could cut through other things.

 

[Cosmos]

When I was a little kid, my dad messed with me and my siblings by telling us that you can breathe through your ears if your nose and mouth are closed. I tried to do this too many times before I realized he was pulling my leg.

 

[Midlife Sperglord]

When I was four, I believed that eating apple seeds would result in me waking up the next morning with an apple tree growing out of my belly.

 

[Vicki V]

My mom told me that babies came from your ‘hole down there’ so I thought she meant my bellybutton but a few years later she said ‘your other hole’ so up until second grade I thought you had to shit babies out.

When I was a preteen my dad caught me watching porn and said I was going to burn in hell when I died because boys are allowed to watch porn but it’s a sin for girls to.

 

[HazamA]

Stupid things I thought as a kid?
I thought the holocaust was real..

 

[JambledUpWords]

I used to think that the reason people smoked cigarettes was so they could see their breath when it wasn’t winter.

 

[Draza]

All races are equal.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I used to think babies just phased through the mother's stomach when they were born, like some sort of ghost.

 

[ForgedBlades]

I thought that you could either stop time or become invisible if you closed your eyes and thought about it really hard.

I still fantasize about this on a daily basis.

 

[Russian Collusion]

I thought the people we watched on TV were watching us back.

 

[Mao Hao Hao]

I used to think that everyone in the period before color pictures/TV could only see in black and white, and that it wasn't until the invention of color photographs and videos that people could see in color.

 

[Chopinpiano]

black people weren't a nuisance to civilization

 

[Scorpiondo]

I used to think that elevators were teleporters to different dimensions.

 

[sadstuck]

I thought only women could have orgasms, because I looked at the Cosmopolitan headlines at the walmart checkout and they were talking about them all the time. Also they peed from their vagina hole. So basically it was just a cloaca to me, except they didn't poop from it.

I also thought every mentally ill person had to be locked up in facilities called "nuthouses" and that we lived across from one. Spoiler alert: it was just an apartment building.

I was taught that the only reason people hated minority groups was that they were different from them.

 

[Spectrum270]

When I was little, I thought that, since pregnant women had babies in their bellies, they'd puke up the baby. (I never thought as to where the babies came from, though.)

 

[ASU]

I had no idea "bullet drop" was a thing. I thought a fired bullet just went forever until it hit something.

 

[Raging Capybara]

I didn't understand how 3D games were rendered. I thought every single possible frame was drawn by someone previously and displayed on the screen accordingly, just like sprites in 2D games. When I learned what a polygon is, was truly a breathtaking moment.

 

[Count groudon]

I thought all the characters in tv actually existed within the TV and could get out at any time, and that whenever a famous person was interviewed on TV they were magically beamed inside until it was done and then they beamed back into their house.

Because of this I'd run like holy hell every time something scary popped up on tv because I thought it could get out and grab me.

 

[BlueArmedDevil]

That our system of government worked just as it was taught to me in school.