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People Are Cracking Up At These 35 Nonsensical Beliefs These Twitter Users Had As Kids
Childhood could be seen as one of the most adorable periods of a person’s life. The time when children start to ask and learn various things about the world is very important. And usually, it brings a lot of fun to adults who try to explain and share their knowledge as best as possible. I guess we all remember times when we struggled to understand certain matters. Having this in mind, Twitter user @ExileGrimm asked people what was the dumbest belief they had when they were kids. The tweet got more than 93k likes and almost 7k retweets.
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The Twitter user started the thread by sharing her own belief that birds grew from bird seeds and that she even managed to prove this to be right. In the comments, people also shared their own beliefs that they soon understood to be nonsense. Even though these thoughts were false assumptions, now they make thousands of people laugh and think of their own funny childhood stories.
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How dare you reveal his secret identity? Just between the two of us, my dad is his associate!
I thought people who spoke English were just faking it and everyone's native language was Ukrainian.
Understandable. 1 is the smallest-100 is the largest. It's a unit of measurement that children can relate to..
Well there is definitely some miserable git that turns them all to red when he sees me coming.
Well, when my son was in infants school I went with the kids as a helper on an excursion. We went by tram then walked through a quiet part of the city to our destination. I was guiding the long string of children across a road while watching the walk-sign. It was green, then it started flashing red, about to say Stop Walking - but we were only halfway across. I looked at the kids to stop them going onto the road, then looked back at the walk-sign. It was now green again! It stayed green until all the kids were off the road, which was much longer than any walk-sign I've seen before or since. Every crossing we took after that magically stayed green until all the kids had crossed. Someone WAS watching.
Similar to this but I believed there were tiny men INSIDE the traffic lights deciding when to change them!
Oh me too! Just posted this when I saw your comment. Only I thought it was a very thin guy, like the science assistant in the muppets
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Partly true in a way, many modern lights have pressure sensors that change the lights (or activate filter lights) based on traffic. Some also have sensors that change the light to red if it detects a speeding vehicle
Pretty sure ours are electromagnatic as they put loops of wire into the tarmac at intervals in front of the lights. But they either extend the time the light is on green if there is a queue or make the lights change quicker if it detects a vehicle waiting in the other direction. They are a pain as they usually start to change before the last vehicle gets through the lights.
Load More Replies... These days there is, after a fashion. My son works in the traffic department of our city, and they have cameras at all the major intersections. If there's a big event where they expect a huge volume of traffic, or an accident that's causing cars to build up, they can change the traffic lights to help keep it flowing.
There IS someone doing this...just not constantly, and not everywhere. I do remember watching some show where they showed the central command center that controlled the city's (or county's?) traffic signals, and they were able to shorten or lengthen the duration of each light color manually.
In London UK at peak times there IS a guy working the traffic lights manually, has done so for many years.
I always thought the same to. I thought there was this guy in a building pressing green red and yellow buttons for the lights.
Omg same but instead I thought it was some secret spy base underneath the road and if I pushed the button on the pedestrian crossing really fast it would glitch the system or something
In Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, London, Beijing and Sydney there are actually Traffic Control Centers with people watching the cameras 24/7. When traffic gets bad, there really is someone there to change the light. Watch the campy Tommy Lee Jones movie: Volcano. He's a Traffic Control Chief.
I did too. I thought my uncle controlled it because he was somber sort of traffic manager or something.
where I live there was one that could be manually operated (you knew that it was because queues where longer)
I thought that long haired dogs and cats were girls and short haired ones were boys.
I am italian but when I speak/write in english I think in english I do not translate from italian...
I always thought when a woman threw up she was pregnant immediately after. This was thought when i was 6 or 7. Every time i threw up after that i sobbed. 🤷🏻♀️
When I heard the term "Great depression" the first time I thought it was because evrybody was really unhappy with how things were going. They never explained it here in the UK fully in history lessons. They just said "and at that time America was going through the great depression."
I used to think when there was a young version of a person on a program or movie then it was actually a video of the actor when they were a kid
Like when Elmer Fudd stuck the rifle barrel into the hole and it curled up out of the hole behind him!
When I was young, I thought that if I behaved good, treat others with respect and kindness, be honest and law-abiding, that would automatically mean that I would have a good, happy life, and got treated back the same way. No such luck.
Yeah, kinda like how I thought as an adult I wouldn't never be bullied again because adults know better and behave properly... little did I know...
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My friend told me that when she was little she did know there were muscles, bones and organs in her body. She thought it was all poop the whole way through. She told me this like 20 years ago and I can NOT forget this. I just picture her adorable little self completely unbothered by the idea that she's a poop balloon
Yeah, many preschoolers (hopefully friend wasnt older) think this. I remember thinking my entire butt was for poop.
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When I was 5 they told me that paper was made with trees.. I thought for about 2 years that they accurately choosed trees with white wood and no defects, and cut very very thin slice of wood to make paper sheets, until my teacher explained the entire process at school..
Though that is precisely the process for making wood veneer, so you can just shift that knowledge.
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I tried to hatch a fish egg by putting it in warm water and waiting patiently. It was smoked caviar.
You guys ever watch Pretty Woman? It was my absolute favorite movie when I was 5. There is a part where Julia Roberts pulls out some condoms and they are all different colors, she asks Richard Gere which one he wants and I though she was offering him lollipops. I remember this huge fight cause my aunt walked in and me and my cousins were watching it because you know I owned that VHS and she put me in time out after screaming at me that they don't allow things like that in her home. I put up quite the fight, there was nothing inappropriate about Pretty Woman and I believed my aunt to be nuts. Still feel that way to this day. I didn't realize the movie was about a prostitute until I was around 13. That movie has solidified my belief that kids can watch rated R movies because they don't know what is going on, and when they are old enough to know what is going on, then they are also old enough to watch it. Just my opinion.
I watched so many movies as a kid that I didn't understand. Watching them as a teen/adult and realising all the innuendo and inappropriate stuff... embarrassing.
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When I was a kid, probably from age 6 to 13? I thought that every female finds females attractive. Then I got familiar with the term "lesbian" :D
I was growing up in a non-religious area, so I thought that religion was some ancient thing nobody believed in anymore. When I was 11, I experienced a cultural shock when my roommate in a summer camp turned out to be a Christian who prayed every evening.
That does sound like a shock. I used to think my family and people at church were the only Catholics. Imagine my surprise when my classmate Seth started praying before lunch...
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Thanks to my sister I thought you had to be 7 or older to drink 7up 🤦♀️
When I was little (60-odd years ago), I took the expression "there's a first time for everything" just a bit too literally and lived in terror of the first time I would break a leg or an arm, have a heart attack, drown in the neighborhood pool, etc., etc..
When I was little I thought that photo's where developed in developing countries.
I used to think men with moustaches are the married ones and the ones without, were singles.
I used to think everyone but me could see their own faces, without use of a mirror. You know, because I could see them, so they probably could too.
When I was five or younger, since I got to run around outside without a shirt like my dad, I thought that I was a boy and that when I grew up I would turn into a girl. I thought the reverse happened to girls.
I was born in 80s, and thought that when it was lightning, God was clicking my photos so I would pose. Of course I would never get to see the photo right away, because we had to waiting for the 36 roll film to be developed.
I thought snipe hunting was real. At parties, the adults would send us out with spoons to clack and paper bags to catch snipes. Really they were getting rid of us so we couldn't see them get high. No one caught a snipe....
When I was really little I dreaded our annual doctor's checkup. That's because I thought the blood pressure cuff inflated my arm. I thought it injected air under my skin. and then blew it up like a balloon As the doc inflated the cuff, which I never watched, I was always freaked out that my arm would pop. My siblings were scared of shots, but I was horrified by the blood pressure cuff.
When I was a child (motherless) I thought that the hard breasts on Barbie dolls was a true representation of reality.
My husband was surprised and pleased when he found out that breasts on a real live woman were squishy. In fact I think he still hasn't got over the excitement 🤣
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I thought I could see the world spinning slowly until my dad told me it was just the clouds moving.
As a kid believed that "ex-husband" and "ex-wife" meant they had gotten married really fast, soon after they first met, without getting engaged first - not that they were no longer married!
I live in the uk & i though bluebirds were mythical until a few years ago i didnt know they were an actual bird real in the US/canada, theyre amazing!
I used to think the deep sea was underneath sand at the bottom of the ocean (sunlight zone).
I thought that a blood pressure cuff didn't inflate around my arm -- it actually inflated my arm like a balloon. Somehow, it injected air under my skin. I was always freaked out that my arm would pop. I never told anyone and lived in fear of our annual doctor's checkups.
I, too, thought dogs were all boys and cats were all girls. Also, my mother told my sibling and I that being noisy while cakes were baking would stop them from rising, rendering it inedible; something to do with vibrations in the air (which obviously passed through a closed oven door). I believed this up until my 20s. Little did I know she would bake a cake when she just wanted an hour of peace and quiet.
My friend still believes this (she's 20). Whenever I'm baking something with her she always tells me to be quiet or leave the room because she just doesn't want to believe that her mom could've lied to her.
Load More Replies... I asked my mom if girls *points to a 13 year old at the bus stop, out of earshot* grew penis's when older. I was 5 or 6. Similarly, the first time I felt a hole down there (aka my vagina) I thought it was new and everything sucked in. i internally freaked for a minute. Nobody explained that to me.
I thought any dirty looking cars, old cars, or cars that had anything visibly broken were alive and going to eat me. I cried and wouldn't let my parents park next to "junky cars." I saw the movie Maximum Overdrive when I was too young.
When I was a kid I used to think that if anyone got shot anywhere on their body in movies, then they'd die. So like if someone was shot in the leg, that character would perish.
I thought flushing a toilet summoned witches. I was terrified and would run like hell out of the bathroom after flushing.
I was told that humans "used to be monkeys" but misinterpreted it to mean that humans were born as animals. I was convinced that my grandma was born as a hen and "evolved" into a woman. My town was also hit by a tornadon in 1994, so I would have just turned 4. I wa convinced we had been attached by a killer tomato like the animated show. :p
I thought if I spoke up about ppl being mean it would stop.... NOPE. made it worse! So now I'm an introvert who barely stands up for herself bc shes scared of losing everything :D (sorry to being the mood down guys :l)
When I was little I believed that a ghost rider was a real ghost driving a car. It made perfect sense to me. A ghost could never get a drivers licence. So he must have stolen a car . I was disappointed when I found out it was a person in a car driving against traffic.
When I was a kid I thought ad breaks on TV were so the actors could have a rest. Mind you, it was because a mischievous teacher told me that just to mess with me.
Dude, you sound a little bit angry and dissapointed. It's not my party, but take care that the bitterness doesn't kill your soul. No offense..
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When I was young, I thought that if I behaved good, treat others with respect and kindness, be honest and law-abiding, that would automatically mean that I would have a good, happy life, and got treated back the same way. No such luck.
Yeah, kinda like how I thought as an adult I wouldn't never be bullied again because adults know better and behave properly... little did I know...
Load More Replies... My friend told me that when she was little she did know there were muscles, bones and organs in her body. She thought it was all poop the whole way through. She told me this like 20 years ago and I can NOT forget this. I just picture her adorable little self completely unbothered by the idea that she's a poop balloon
Yeah, many preschoolers (hopefully friend wasnt older) think this. I remember thinking my entire butt was for poop.
Load More Replies... When I was 5 they told me that paper was made with trees.. I thought for about 2 years that they accurately choosed trees with white wood and no defects, and cut very very thin slice of wood to make paper sheets, until my teacher explained the entire process at school..
Though that is precisely the process for making wood veneer, so you can just shift that knowledge.
Load More Replies... I tried to hatch a fish egg by putting it in warm water and waiting patiently. It was smoked caviar.
You guys ever watch Pretty Woman? It was my absolute favorite movie when I was 5. There is a part where Julia Roberts pulls out some condoms and they are all different colors, she asks Richard Gere which one he wants and I though she was offering him lollipops. I remember this huge fight cause my aunt walked in and me and my cousins were watching it because you know I owned that VHS and she put me in time out after screaming at me that they don't allow things like that in her home. I put up quite the fight, there was nothing inappropriate about Pretty Woman and I believed my aunt to be nuts. Still feel that way to this day. I didn't realize the movie was about a prostitute until I was around 13. That movie has solidified my belief that kids can watch rated R movies because they don't know what is going on, and when they are old enough to know what is going on, then they are also old enough to watch it. Just my opinion.
I watched so many movies as a kid that I didn't understand. Watching them as a teen/adult and realising all the innuendo and inappropriate stuff... embarrassing.
Load More Replies... When I was a kid, probably from age 6 to 13? I thought that every female finds females attractive. Then I got familiar with the term "lesbian" :D
I was growing up in a non-religious area, so I thought that religion was some ancient thing nobody believed in anymore. When I was 11, I experienced a cultural shock when my roommate in a summer camp turned out to be a Christian who prayed every evening.
That does sound like a shock. I used to think my family and people at church were the only Catholics. Imagine my surprise when my classmate Seth started praying before lunch...
Load More Replies... Thanks to my sister I thought you had to be 7 or older to drink 7up 🤦♀️
When I was little (60-odd years ago), I took the expression "there's a first time for everything" just a bit too literally and lived in terror of the first time I would break a leg or an arm, have a heart attack, drown in the neighborhood pool, etc., etc..
When I was little I thought that photo's where developed in developing countries.
I used to think men with moustaches are the married ones and the ones without, were singles.
I used to think everyone but me could see their own faces, without use of a mirror. You know, because I could see them, so they probably could too.
When I was five or younger, since I got to run around outside without a shirt like my dad, I thought that I was a boy and that when I grew up I would turn into a girl. I thought the reverse happened to girls.
I was born in 80s, and thought that when it was lightning, God was clicking my photos so I would pose. Of course I would never get to see the photo right away, because we had to waiting for the 36 roll film to be developed.
I thought snipe hunting was real. At parties, the adults would send us out with spoons to clack and paper bags to catch snipes. Really they were getting rid of us so we couldn't see them get high. No one caught a snipe....
When I was really little I dreaded our annual doctor's checkup. That's because I thought the blood pressure cuff inflated my arm. I thought it injected air under my skin. and then blew it up like a balloon As the doc inflated the cuff, which I never watched, I was always freaked out that my arm would pop. My siblings were scared of shots, but I was horrified by the blood pressure cuff.
When I was a child (motherless) I thought that the hard breasts on Barbie dolls was a true representation of reality.
My husband was surprised and pleased when he found out that breasts on a real live woman were squishy. In fact I think he still hasn't got over the excitement 🤣
Load More Replies... I thought I could see the world spinning slowly until my dad told me it was just the clouds moving.
As a kid believed that "ex-husband" and "ex-wife" meant they had gotten married really fast, soon after they first met, without getting engaged first - not that they were no longer married!
I live in the uk & i though bluebirds were mythical until a few years ago i didnt know they were an actual bird real in the US/canada, theyre amazing!
I used to think the deep sea was underneath sand at the bottom of the ocean (sunlight zone).
I thought that a blood pressure cuff didn't inflate around my arm -- it actually inflated my arm like a balloon. Somehow, it injected air under my skin. I was always freaked out that my arm would pop. I never told anyone and lived in fear of our annual doctor's checkups.
I, too, thought dogs were all boys and cats were all girls. Also, my mother told my sibling and I that being noisy while cakes were baking would stop them from rising, rendering it inedible; something to do with vibrations in the air (which obviously passed through a closed oven door). I believed this up until my 20s. Little did I know she would bake a cake when she just wanted an hour of peace and quiet.
My friend still believes this (she's 20). Whenever I'm baking something with her she always tells me to be quiet or leave the room because she just doesn't want to believe that her mom could've lied to her.
Load More Replies... I asked my mom if girls *points to a 13 year old at the bus stop, out of earshot* grew penis's when older. I was 5 or 6. Similarly, the first time I felt a hole down there (aka my vagina) I thought it was new and everything sucked in. i internally freaked for a minute. Nobody explained that to me.
I thought any dirty looking cars, old cars, or cars that had anything visibly broken were alive and going to eat me. I cried and wouldn't let my parents park next to "junky cars." I saw the movie Maximum Overdrive when I was too young.
When I was a kid I used to think that if anyone got shot anywhere on their body in movies, then they'd die. So like if someone was shot in the leg, that character would perish.
I thought flushing a toilet summoned witches. I was terrified and would run like hell out of the bathroom after flushing.
I was told that humans "used to be monkeys" but misinterpreted it to mean that humans were born as animals. I was convinced that my grandma was born as a hen and "evolved" into a woman. My town was also hit by a tornadon in 1994, so I would have just turned 4. I wa convinced we had been attached by a killer tomato like the animated show. :p
I thought if I spoke up about ppl being mean it would stop.... NOPE. made it worse! So now I'm an introvert who barely stands up for herself bc shes scared of losing everything :D (sorry to being the mood down guys :l)
When I was little I believed that a ghost rider was a real ghost driving a car. It made perfect sense to me. A ghost could never get a drivers licence. So he must have stolen a car . I was disappointed when I found out it was a person in a car driving against traffic.
When I was a kid I thought ad breaks on TV were so the actors could have a rest. Mind you, it was because a mischievous teacher told me that just to mess with me.
Dude, you sound a little bit angry and dissapointed. It's not my party, but take care that the bitterness doesn't kill your soul. No offense..
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