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To ask what you thought was weird as a child (lighthearted)

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scalt · 01/01/2026 08:22

What things do you remember from childhood that you thought were weird, even though they're perfectly normal to adults?

Bicycles staying upright, even though they only have two wheels.
How you stop noticing certain sensations (such as the clothes on your body) after a while: I remember pondering this aged four.
Puddles not being there the next day.

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WongKarWaiMe · 01/01/2026 10:01

Pretty much everything because when you're a kid, you have time to think about everything really hard, and when you do that, it's all weird. Existing at all is weird, bodily functions are weird, social conventions are weird, everything is odd!

HangingOver · 01/01/2026 09:54

VeterinaryCareAssistant · 01/01/2026 09:51

I honestly, genuinely thought black people were made of chocolate and would melt.

I also thought "work" was a place adults went to and it was all the same place.

I thought dogs' tongues were made of ham.

I was a weird child, clearly.

To this day in my house if DDog licks your face you have to shout "BLERGH! Warm ham!!"

HangingOver · 01/01/2026 09:53

This one is quite abstract but I think I was aware from a young age that all human rules and mortality etc. is just made up by humans and not an actual fact. Like I could not understand how money was "worth" something when they were just pieces of paper and metal. And why certain things were wrong if no body ever found out about them. I was quite a weird kid.

Oh I also used to think that people who could drive automatically knew the way to anywhere and also that radiators were for drying clothes.

TroysMammy · 01/01/2026 09:52

Seeing people sitting on a beach in swimwear on a boiling hot day smoking a fag. Didn't that make them feel hotter? As a non smoker and late 50s I still can't get my head around this.

VeterinaryCareAssistant · 01/01/2026 09:51

I honestly, genuinely thought black people were made of chocolate and would melt.

I also thought "work" was a place adults went to and it was all the same place.

I thought dogs' tongues were made of ham.

I was a weird child, clearly.

Teacherjw · 01/01/2026 09:47

After being on holiday in Spain thinking that flamenco dancing was actually called flamingo dancing and had something to do with the bird.

HolyMoly24 · 01/01/2026 09:42

Longest/shortest days of the year. I thought there was actually an extra hour of time added onto the day or taken off it.

to this day my dad still messages me on those days to say ‘now don’t freak out but its the longest day of the year today’ etc

cobrakaieaglefang · 01/01/2026 09:32

Plant crossing- I imagined Triffid style plants running across the road. I was probably 9ish before I understood.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 01/01/2026 08:46

Orange squash bottles saying ‘Dilute to taste’.

Bonkers! You didn’t have to dilute it in order to taste it!
😂

HelenaWaiting · 01/01/2026 08:44

When offered paracetamol after breaking my arm (I had only ever had them for headaches before), I asked "How does it know where to go?"

JacquesHarlow · 01/01/2026 08:22

Happy New Year, everyone.