What's a silly thing you believed when you were little?

NoraReed@beehaw.org to AskBeehaw@beehaw.org – 3 points –

When I was a kid I thought the quarter machines at the laundromat literally transmuted your dollar bills into quarters. What's something silly you believed as a kid?

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When I was 10 I thought Elton John was singing goodbye aubergine instead of goodbye Norma Jeane. To this very day I have great difficulty in understanding song lyrics :/

I believed I was destined to become a bully. There were two older boys in the neighborhood who were jerks, and they were my “evidence”. I expected to turn out like them, because I thought being mean to little kids was just part of growing up.

Fortunately, I got really upset about it one day and talked to mom. I told her I didn’t want to grow up and be a teenager. I didn’t want to bully little kids. She reassured me that it didn’t work the way I thought it did.

When I was really young, I naively believed that nobody ever die and that if they go to the hospital, they'll come out all fine, just a bit older. It only took me to watch James Bond movie with my father to shatter that nativity when I realize that people can actually die.

I believed chinese/japanese ink was made from cuttlefish "ink".

My brother told me and I belived for years...

Cuttlefish ink used to be used as ink. Primarily in ancient times, but... that is real.

When I was little I thought girls had penises (I am male). In High School, I was very confused about reproduction and how it could work. The great part of living in a red state that does not believe in sex education. I was in college before I learned that women do not have a penis.

As a kid, I thought women had a penis. As a teen, I thought none did.

As an adult, now I know some women have one.

i thought girls just peed out of their butts.. and i dont think ANY girls do that, haha

As a kid, I tried very hard to figure out which part of my clitorus the pee came out of. Took a good while to figure out that it didn't.

Look, male, female, or otherwise, we've all peed out our butts at one point or another. And it's never fun.

I thought eggs were a dairy product because they were sold in the milk aisle and were also white.

Not an unreasonable belief, since eggs are often displayed under a huge sign that says "dairy".

I thought movies were real and they just literally followed people around with a camera for the events in movies. Of course, animated movies were a little difficult to resolve with this logic. So, I just figured there was an alternate universe where everything was animated and that's where they came from.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit must have been a tricky watch for you :)

Not going to lie. As I was writing my response, I was thinking Who Framed Roger Rabbit might have been involved in my forming of this belief.