What were your assumptions about the world as a child?

That fairy-tales were real. I honestly thought I'd meet a man, get married and live happily ever after.

I'm divorced.

@Farticus101i did write my own book and guess what…I actually can’t remember who appears in the acknowledgements 🤣

This is still my secret wish, 'Farticus, you are an inspiration'. I'll have to write my own damn book and thank myself just to make it happen!

I was another one terrified of the Bermuda triangle. I am not sure how it was going to affect me when I had never been near it 🤔

I also thought that the great ancient civilizations (Rome, Greece, Egypt etc) were the only ones around at the time, they just replaced each other and the rest of the world was empty. I wasn't sure how they conquered other places. Just strolled in and stuck a flag in the desert maybe.

Quicksand, oh yes! But I was more worried about volcanoes and earthquakes. My mum told me that the little hill where we went once a year to roll our Easter eggs was "probably a dormant volcano". I was quietly worried.

I had a fixed belief that I would have eight children. I'd have a devoted husband and an important job, but also endless time to parent these eight children. Their names changed over the years, but the birth order, age gaps and personalities remained constant. I think I may have read too many Chalet School stories. In the end I had more children than most people would consider sensible or responsible, but not as many as eight.

That normal families lived in detached houses, poor people lived in terraced houses, old people lived in flats.
That bidets were for washing feet.

I was absolutely sure that the world was going to end in a Soviet nuclear bomb blitz. Thats growing up during the Cold War for you!

That university was out in space somewhere.

I inexplicably assumed that one day I’d be named by the author in the acknowledgments page in a book. Thanks to Amy, this book would never have been written without her.

I still read them all now waiting to see my name appear 🤣

Omg

This is my favourite 😍

Omg this has reminded me of loads!

• you chose your Birthday

• you got smarter every year so with adults Id change my opinion on how smart they were when I found out their ages (eg 45 year old parent must be smarter than a 41 year old).

• babies came out of the womb wearing clothes

• father christmas, the easter bunny snd god were all friends and sat around a table chatting about the world a bit like a mad hatters tea party. Also god was a wizard.

I didn’t realise what pins and needles was, I used to get it sometimes in assembly from sitting on the floor crossing my legs, I never told anyone for years because I thought I was weird 😂

That all roads were connected eventually, so you could turn down any side road and still get to your destination even if it took much longer.
That women who didn't want babies all became nuns.

I thought my dad was a millionaire. He was far from it but I saw a small wad of £5 notes in his wallet and assumed that he was rolling in it. I cringe when I see a certain cousin sometimes as I remember adamantly telling him when I was 9 that dad was a millionaire and he kept annoying me by saying he wasn't.

When people at concerts used to hold up posters that said "Take That 4 Eva", "Robbie 4 Eva", I used to think that Eva was the same girl that attended all these concerts and I used to think she was really lucky.

I thought cats (or anything with a tail really!) did wees and poos from their tails regardless of wether it was a boy cat or a girl cat

Public information films ala 70s style.
Designed to terrify children.

I also grew up with the assumption that most people had a basic level of comprehension, MNs frequently proves this is not the case!

And saying birth rates are low and we have a serious economic issue with the changing demographics does not infer the solution is to keep having more dc. Even if that was my solution (it isn't) that ship sailed a long time ago!

You were the one who said you wanted 4 children, and I told you it was just as well you didn't have them because the planet can't afford it. I stand by that.

And I'm saying it could have because birth rates are so low. I stand by that.

Another one who was vigilant to the dangers of quicksand!!! Why were we all so terrified of quicksand?! 😂

1. Quick sand was an immediate danger
2. leprosy was a threat to the entire population
3. the Thames was going to flood any day and we’d all be under water (I grew up in London)
4. Thousands of people went missing every year in the Bermuda Triangle

This is such a cute misconception.

You were the one who said you wanted 4 children, and I told you it was just as well you didn't have them because the planet can't afford it. I stand by that.

That teachers got to choose their ‘teacher name’, when they started teaching.

but the solution is not to keep having more kids.

Where did I say it was? You were the one who jumped on my fictional 4 dc 🤔