What’s the weirdest thing you seriously believed as a kid?

[tiredpanda]

[docster]

A man who lived on the next street, but I could see his backyard from mine, looked a lot like one of my uncles so I thought he WAS my uncle. I figured he was living a double life with a secret family. I never told anyone because I didn't want to get him in trouble. I'm reasonably sure I was mistaken.🤔

[slatyb]

That garbage men only worked one day a week. That the grocery store was the center of distribution of all wealth. I believed this because my mother went to the store, paid with a check, and got cash back.

[Anonymous]

I grew up at the tail end of the cold war. When the threat of nuclear annihilation had a RED face (the Soviet Union). They didn't tell us the Soviets had a GDP the size of California. So we believed the Soviets were a formidable threat capable of going toe to toe with the United States.. And when it came to the Nuclear option though, they were and could have.

So in my childhood naievete. I always thought, believed that if all the leaders of the world got together in one room that they could solve their differences. I was too young and didn't understand the differences in cultures and the way they read actions. Russians have always been pawns in someones game. From the Czars, to the communist totalitarian state, to Putin and his oligarchs. Like one difference is Russians seldom smile brightly. They consider a smile dopey. Like if you smile you must be an idiot. You can imagine what they think of most American policians.😆

Now to i understand much better how things work. At least as much as a layperson can. There's always a game behind a game behind a game. And you're only ever privy to half the facts out there.

Now i figure i've lived a half century. That's long enough if someone wants to start WW3. Hell it'll probably have over before i know it's started anyhow. So it's not worth worrying about anymore.

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

Oh man, my mom is a nurse who used to work on the labor and delivery floor and she used to tell horror stories of women who experienced all kinds of issues giving birth. Made me terrified of pregnancy for a long time, afraid of the uterus falling out or something insane like that (which can happen by the way so i suppose it's not all that weird).

[ElenaLena]

When I was a kid, I believed that couples had babies if they kissed…😄

I was even scared that if another kid kissed me, I would get pregnant! 😆

[Darkest-Knight]

"When I was a kid, I believed that couples had babies if they kissed"

Same! :D

[thegreenyogi]

That cats had seven lives and I even tried to experiment with that theory... not something I am proud of.. lol!!

[aceleon]

if i stay longer than evening ezan i will puke.

i had and still have vomitting phobia, my father side grandma used this fear to make me not stay outside when it became dark outside.

[Abbycado]

That teachers lived at school. I could never believe when I saw one at say, the grocery store. lol

[Anonymous]

I used to think when it was raining that meant God was crying.

[tiredpanda]

This is something my mum and older people used to tell me as a kid 😅

[Opinion Owner]

Interesting

[msc545]

For a relatively long time I believed that masturbation would cause me to have a brain injury after I was told that by my father. Course I kept masturbating but I had anxiety around it as a result of what he had said to me. Years later when I confronted him and asked him why he had told me that he denied ever saying it. This was a very disappointing incident.

[NathanDavis]

that presidents were the best kind of people...

[browsingthroughthe]

I used to wonder how the projection on the screen got there - lol 🤯😆 silly me 🎥

[strateguy632]

i really beleevd tooth fairy gave money for teeth.

[exitseven]

When I was in first and second grade I thought all the teachers lived at the school.

[t4r3t33r333]

I honestly believed that if I swallowed a watermelon seed, a whole watermelon tree would grow inside my stomach."

[Ariesman81Nshiiit]

To get a woman pregnant, a man had to pee in her belly button

[Anonymous]

That beautiful women doesn't fart and their booty never stinks bad lol 😂

[abc3643]

That Republicans weren't evil.

[MrChinaski]

I thought Disneyland was a country.

[Alex-Snow]

The Easter Bunny

[Paige2006]

Superman