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Stupid things you thought as a kid - we were all dumbasses when we were kids
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Very young when I thought this, but I thought cats and dogs had the same lifespan as humans do.
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I just thought it meant the envelopes were black so when I was in 3rd grade and went to post office with my mom, I asked to see a black mail.
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Same! I still imagined that London had cobblestone roads and everything, even if I had seen what the moden UK looked like in tv shows and stuff.
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I used to shit myself as a very young kid over the thought of going onto cable cars. Now before you all think "heights, that makes sense", nope, that's not why. I thought that it was a really long rope where I you had to Tarzan your way across while dodging the moving cars, and if you couldn't you would fall.
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I thought cartoons lived on the moon.
Elliot R.
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As a child I always thought that the world would be fair and kind to those like me, intelligent and sophisticated.
I was even so blind as to think WOMEN could be contributing members of society that would ever take an interest in someone like me, Elliot Rodger.
Looking back now I can highlight my own childlike stupidity over and over. Like an eternal game of eye spy, with my grave nativity about this world being the winning sight.
I know now that women and their inane, inhumane desires could never contribute to a truly just society, only poison it.
Learn from me and look at this twisted world for what it truly is.
I was even so blind as to think WOMEN could be contributing members of society that would ever take an interest in someone like me, Elliot Rodger.
Looking back now I can highlight my own childlike stupidity over and over. Like an eternal game of eye spy, with my grave nativity about this world being the winning sight.
I know now that women and their inane, inhumane desires could never contribute to a truly just society, only poison it.
Learn from me and look at this twisted world for what it truly is.
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Man...have you ever thought of having...oh I dunno, a day of retribution or something like that?
Just a crazy little idea.
Gravityqueen4life
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man, reading Elliotts manifesto made me nostalgia hard. our childhoods were so alike minus the moving and travailing.
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I tried to recharge a non-rechargeable battery (those small circular ones) by sticking it in between the prongs that plug into a power outlet from a vacuum cord and then plugging that in.
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I thought there was always something scary at the end of VHS tapes. So I always ejected tapes before the end.
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I was (and still am) a huge autist, and when I was about 5 years old, I took everything literally. When my dad told me wrestling wasn't real, my brain interpreted it as "wrestling is a very realistic cartoon". I also didn't understand how wordplay worked, so I thought puns and things like that were just phrases universally agreed upon to be funny, and that joke books were manuals that told everyone what those phrases were.
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When I was 7 years old, I thought cats couldn't clean themselves, I would get lots of scratch marks from trying to bathe my cat in the kitchen sink.
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I was shocked mildly and the battery was burnt; nothing too exciting, only after I did it did I realize that probably wasn't the best idea. It was so long ago I can't even remember why I wanted to, oh I remember, it was for a laser pointer. Yes, I had a laser pointer, but it wasn't working so well so I thought the battery might be dead.
I seriously didn't know this until only like, 3 or 4 years ago.
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As a kid, maybe 5-6-7 years old, I watched an old American movie on TV, might have been something like Gone With the Wind, and for the first time ever I saw what I many years later learned was called blackface. It wasn't the minstrel show kind, it was a white actor playing a black man, a butler maybe.
The dumb thought was that to me that confirmed something that I had been thinking about: why can't white people play black characters and black characters play white characters? It made perfect sense to me, I knew that Max von Sydow is Swedish and he plays british and american characters with no problem. If someone is a great actor then surely they would get the job on ability and merit instead of being restricted by skin color, color, whether it is black or white, should be trivial, it can be fixed with makeup and special effects. Some movies have green people and those actors aren't actually green.
I had just never seen an example of this until that movie and it delighted me.
The dumb thought was that to me that confirmed something that I had been thinking about: why can't white people play black characters and black characters play white characters? It made perfect sense to me, I knew that Max von Sydow is Swedish and he plays british and american characters with no problem. If someone is a great actor then surely they would get the job on ability and merit instead of being restricted by skin color, color, whether it is black or white, should be trivial, it can be fixed with makeup and special effects. Some movies have green people and those actors aren't actually green.
I had just never seen an example of this until that movie and it delighted me.
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In kindergarten, my friend was a huge fan of the wrestler Goldberg (he had all the action figures and brought them to recess sometimes). I wasn't allowed to watch wrestling because my parents thought it was too violent and was trash, but I thought wrestling (WCW and WWF) was totally real and the people who won titles were godlike fighters, so I thought Goldberg was the strongest and absolute best fighter in the world, better than other wrestlers, who could easily beat up anyone in the world.
We had to read (a sanitized version of) the news in elementary school and in 2001 there was an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease (an animal disease) in the UK. I thought it was called foot-in-mouth disease and caused people to habitually put their foot in their mouth, and thought it was common in British schools and worried about getting sick with it.
I used to think music videos were live in the studio performances in front of a greenscreen (with edited in visuals and scenes) until I was like 16. I guess it was easier for me to think that since I'd watched enough metal videos where that's all it is and a few do look like actual live in the studio performances.
We had to read (a sanitized version of) the news in elementary school and in 2001 there was an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease (an animal disease) in the UK. I thought it was called foot-in-mouth disease and caused people to habitually put their foot in their mouth, and thought it was common in British schools and worried about getting sick with it.
I used to think music videos were live in the studio performances in front of a greenscreen (with edited in visuals and scenes) until I was like 16. I guess it was easier for me to think that since I'd watched enough metal videos where that's all it is and a few do look like actual live in the studio performances.
I did the same but with apple seeds since I thought that's how Johnny Appleseed did it. I thought if I buried the apple seeds and watered it every day an apple tree would sprout. After doing that for a few months one day I went out and found two apples on the ground next to a twig and was so damn happy my efforts literally produced fruit. I never thought it was my parents who put them there until many years later.
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I used to think that people were a lot smarter than they actually were.
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I used to think there was a ghost who lived in the toilet cistern who would get mad when you flushed, so whenever I flushed I'd get out the bathroom as fast as I could. The worst part is I still feel a bit uncomfortable when I see an open toilet cistern.
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I used to think the sun and moon were in the sky and not in outer space before I knew what space even was, and the first time I flew in an air plane I was scared we would fly into the sun or we could burn up if we got too close to it.