What were your assumptions about the world as a child?

Quick sand would be a major issue 😅

1 - Death from Quicksand was terrifying, highly likely and a certain thing we would encounter in our lifetimes.

2 - That cats and dogs were males and females of the same species (cats the females and dogs the males).

3 - The harder I worked at school and the higher I performed, the more successful I would be in life. I mean, there’s still a strong correlation here but nowhere near as strong or as absolute as I first believed.

I thought I'd no longer be shy and would have loads of confidence. Still shy in my 40s.

I thought we were watching people going about their lives in TV and that something bigger (dinosaurs?) were watching us on their tvs.

In my teens I thought I'd have an amazing job as a grown up, my kids would have a FT nanny, I'd drive a Jaguar, live in a period property and I'd have a holiday home somewhere. I have a good job but can afford none of that!

That if it was written in a book it must be factually correct

That male chickens weed on eggs and that’s what made the eggs have chicks inside 😂

That questioning any sort of authority was inherently bad!

That if you were a good person good things would come your way
that if you played by the rules things would be fair
that if I worked hard studied got a good job I’d be able to afford a home and holidays

This would be SO COOL if it was true

That grown ups never told lies. It shook my world when, aged 8, an elderly neighbour went to my parents' door and told my mum that I'd been going up to her living room window and pulling faces at her, which I hadn't done.

It also meant that when I asked my mum what would happen if you had an itch and didn't scratch it, and she replied, presumably fed up with me asking silly questions, "Your leg will fall off," I believed her and was terrified.

That if you had a bigger TV, the main picture would still be the same size as on a smaller screen, but you’d be able to see what was going on behind the scenes. I was most disappointed when I went to an electronics store aged about 5, and saw some massive TVs for the first time, and found that that was not the case. What was the point in having a bigger TV?!

I thought I’d be married with kids at 18 because 18 is an adult.

I thought all blocks of flats were council estates (to be fair this is true where I grew up).

That every crime that ever happened made the news.

That I would own a family home by 25 on a middle class kind of job salary. That my children would not have SEND. That I would never have to worry about money being a well educated, bright, hardworking person. Oh how naïve I was!

That quick sand would 'get' me .

That I would help the police solve a baffling murder ( I read lots of famous 5 and secret 7 books )

That all singers / actors wrote their own songs / lines

I don't understand the point you are making @OneUmberJoker

However, as a tiny child I remember believing that the little birds had little bird weddings with veils and trains, etc, before building their nests. After a sex education class when I was about 9 and it was explained about sperms and eggs and that the penis went inside the woman, I thought that my mum must have had sex once as I was an only child, but they Queen had it four times because she had four children.

I remember watching the news and it felt very removed from me, until Aberfan which I related to because it involved children.