[ SECRET POST #3420 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3420 ⌋

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Comments

Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

When you were young. What were they?

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[kallanda_lee]

That you couldn't have your period on your birthday, I was sadly disappointed.

Also when I was really little my grandma convinced me that if I did not wash m armpits properly, potatoes would grow there. (my grandmother was a strange woman, she also made me fear werewolves and snakes in toilets).

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[kaijinscendre]

I used to thinking eating raw potatoes would give me worms. What kind of worms, I do not know. But a neighbor told me they would so I didn't eat raw potato for a long time.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[sparrow_lately]

I insisted I was Korean because my aunt (by marriage) and cousins were Korean. I could not be swayed in this belief.

Edit: since I'm the first person in this thread without potatoes: I thought scalloped potatoes with cheese weren't potatoes. I don't know why but I was very sure.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks to mum and dad I 50% believed my animals came alive at night.

This was pre toy story era but a common trick played on kids I think.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

To follow the potato trend, my grandmother made me believe that if I didn't peel potatoes before eating them, the peel would somehow attach itself to my appendix. Apparently that was what her mother told her, and she still won't eat potatoes without peeling them. I do though, and find some types of potatoes a lot better with the peel on.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

I thought "all day" meant "forever." It caused me a lot of stress, needless to say.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

I used to think people who worked at stores in the mall stayed there overnight, 'cause I always saw them still inside the stores as they closed the gates, and thought that meant they couldn't leave the store as a result.

(Why it never occurred to me that they just unlocked those same gates after they'd closed down the registers and whatnot in order to leave the store for the night, I don't know, but...yeah :p.)

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

That thrush were female blackbirds

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[diet_poison]

I thought cheese was a vegetable and eggs were dairy.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[dethtoll]

I went to a Catholic school. When there was (I think) a state mandate to teach sex ed, they went for the "if you have sex out of wedlock you'll get STDs." We saw a lot of STD photos to scare us, but they just outright ignored anything to do with human anatomy. So up until I hit my late teens, I had been led to believe the vagina was in the small of the back.

Thankfully internet porno cleared that up.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

Traffic lights were controlled by pirates in a room under every intersection, where they watched the street with cameras so they knew when to pull the levers to make the lights change. Why pirates? No idea, but my young mind was quite firm on this detail.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

All cultures and peoples could live together in happy harmony.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks to A Little Princess, I was a hundred percent convinced my dolls came to life when I wasn't in the room and I used to walk quietly into my room, hoping to catch them talking or having a tea party.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm... I saw a sex-ed cartoon that led me to believe that people had sex through their belly-buttons.
Also sperm cells shot lasers so that's how they went through

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

That at 18, I would suddenly fill out the "ideal hourglass figure" that I had in mind.

Lol. Not really.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[ypsilon42]

I didn't really understand how daylight saving time worked and assumed that we had one hour less every night for the whole summer and one hour more during the entire winter.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

Prince Lir from the Last Unicorn and King Lear were one and the same.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[cure_light]

When I was little my brother convinced me German chocolate icing was made from rat guts with a lot of sugar in it.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

If I saw an elderly woman walking around or going to the store by herself or only in the company of other elderly women, I thought she had never married or had kids and was very sad. (For the record, I may not yet be elderly, but now I know I don't want kids and I'm perfectly okay not being married, but I didn't know that then.) It never occured to me that just because you had a spouse and kids, it didn't mean you were all joined at the hip all the time (it's not like my parents practiced attachment parenting or never did things without each other, but I was a little kid, so naturally I assumed my parents's world evolved around me) and it didn't occur to me that if you were elderly, your kids woukd be grown up.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

I knew that being drunk was when you drank a lot of alcohol, so the first time I ever heard an adult say that someone was stoned, I thought it meant that they'd had a lot of sex and that it made them "impaired" basically in the same way as being drunk. I had no idea what marijuana was, and the only "adult" thing I could think of other than alcohol that adults would act as secretive about (the "he's stoned" was whispered because there were kids around, and I just happened to hear it) was sex, so it made sense in my mind.

Also, I thought I'd grow up to be as big as my mom. I thought eventually, I'd be as tall as her and all my body parts would be the same, I didn't understand the concept of people having different builds. I'm all grown up now, I'm an inch and a half shorter than her, my boobs are much smaller than hers, my hands look like a kid's when held up next to hers and I'm just smaller in general.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[lb_lee]

When we were ten, we were CONVINCED that if we just thought hard enough, puberty would go EXACTLY the way we wanted it to.

...that did not end up working out.

(And this is why books like 'the Secret' make me so mad, because they're encouraging me to return to the same magical thinking and illogic of a ten-year-old.)

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[dancingmouse]

I used to think that people kept growing their whole lives. Like, you grew a foot every year you were alive.

I used to bury cooked, right out of the can vegetables in my potted plants because I thought they would grow.

I hated putting my head under blankets because I thought little elves would come a nailed the blanket down and trap me there.

I used to think the phrase "That'll put hair on your chest" was true, and I wouldn't eat anything I heard anyone say that about.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

When I was a kid, I thought actor Erik Estrada was a woman named Erica Strada.

Re: Stupid or silly things you believed

[(Anonymous)]

When I was about five I thought being in high school was actually like Archie comics.