What was the dumbest thing you believed or did as a kid?

[mitchla]

[Unit1]

Considering everybody had more money than the 0.00 EUR me, I attempted to replicate the others (doing, what they did, being like them), hoping I'd magically have money too to get/do things, that the others had.

That didn't last for too long. Eventually I made my own money and I exponentially became more and more myself over time and more disgusted at the others I was trying to replicate. Kind of also the reason I have few friends 😅

Fortunately I have no residue from that other than just this memory.

[FictionalCharacter]

-planting skittles in the ground hoping to create a rainbow 🌈

-grabbing lots of flowers 🌸 and twigs. Mixing it in a bucket of water to create medicine

-using a umbrella ☂ or grocery plastic bag and jumping off a roof. Thinking I would parachute 🪂

-using fake currency money 💵 to try to swindle the ice cream man to get free ice cream

-dropping pennies in the soda machine to get soda

-collecting rocks 🪨 and broken glass. That I would try to sell them to the neighborhood kids. Calling them crystals. 💎

-took a road trip up to Colorado and passed through Albuquerque. That I got so excited and I thought I would see bugs bunny or willie coyote.

-if I wore lipstick 💄 I thought I turned into a princess

[Siri137]

I believed (when I was seven) that only about 10% of the total human population ever fell in love, and that they only did so once. I based this belief upon the fact that all the teachers at my school were single, as were the characters I saw on TV.

[FunkyMonkee]

Probably in the early `70's when all those Paul is dead, rumours were floating around. For some reason, I got it in my head that, if I didn't RUSH up the stairs to my room on the third floor, Paul was gonna come out of my parents' room with a huge knife and try to kill me!! Somehow, I'd be safe if I could make it to the landing 3/4 of the way up.

[exitseven]

I thought that Santa Claus gave the best presents to the kids that were the best behaved. Eventually I figured out that it was the kids that had rich parents that got the best stuff. They were usually not very well behaved.

[4ngelic]

i drew all over a wall to make it prettier, i thought my parents would be super happy. went to get my mom i think and i was like mommy look what i did and showed her the wall super proud and everything, ofcourse she freaked out lol

[DancingQueen16]

My mom told me that when 3 maybe 4 that I sat on the floor of the kitchen with a big bowl, whipped cream, and strawberries and I told her I was trying to make a strawberry cake

[MementoMori777]

I wet diapers and when they were full I'd pop them against the ground and there was wet puffy shit everywhere

[Jazzy54]

I wouldn’t consider it “dumb”, just uninformed. Anyway, I thought when you went to sleep, everything in your body “went to sleep”, too. 😂

[Simslover92]

Santa Claus and that tattoos were the mark of the beast from Revelation.

[tfan1]

I thought Santa Clause was real all the way to the 9th grade. 😞.

[Rangers]

I believed that I'd be able to be free and happy once school was finally finished

[Hellraiser1984]

Not kicking my dad's cousins ass. He and his wife molested me.

[Anonymous]

That my hair blowing back meant that I was going fast (I came last in the race).

[Anonymous]

That all women were ladies. And I foolishly believed that till I was 40.

[JustMeL120]

Believed in the uliminaty

[BungusHighFivePizza]

I used to be a Democrat.

[hellohruu]

That sparrow was child of pigeon

[serafin]

licking my dad's deodorant

[LavLavLuv]

Wasted food can cry

[Zachgoat308]

that pee comes from the balls

[Babygirl_S]

I thought I was adopted

[Anonymous]

Gave characters to my hands

[Ms_Facesitter]

Santa!