Things you used to think and now can't quite believe you did

I thought Arkansas was pronounced Ar-kan-zus. DH thought it was hilarious!

My dad used to say he was going to see a man about a dog and when he came back I always asked him how the dog was, and he'd say it was fine. I was 17 when I realised there was no dog (and the 'man' were his drinking buddies)!

I also though Muslims were a different sort of Catholic. think it was the nun's habit/burka thing?

I used to think that treacle came from mines too!!! Until I was in my teens. Why did I think this? I obviously got the idea from somewhere.

I grew up in N.I and I thought a bomb was a sort of sweet, and the reason it was on the news was because people wanted it banned, as it was making them fat.

I also though that babies were made through-brain waves. the man and the woman would sort of think at each other

Genuinely, on my childs life, I was 21 before I found out Unicorns werent real.

I cant remember how it came up, someone was talking about it over dinner i think And i mentioned that id seen a couple in a field at chester zoo when i was around 5. The whole table burst into laughter and i sat there open mouthed not getting the joke.

My boyfriend had to google it for me to believe it. I still believe I saw unicorns though at chester zoo.

To add to the dizzy image, I was 23 and believed that there were men operating the speed cameras everywhere, I was driving with my dp one weekend and he slowed down for one, I said its ok there not going to be working on a saturday night. He had to pull over as he couldnt drive for laughing.

Ive never lived these 2 down, even now 10 yrs on i get unicorn presents yearly at chirtsmas and birthday.

I have never got over the shock of finding out that guerillas were men and not gorillas. I used to imagine them fighting in the jungle.

My friend believed that if you had a wee in a swimming pool the water went red and everybody would know what you had done. It took me ages to convince her that her Mum had made it up.

It was only when given my first ever bottle of Bombay Sapphire gin that I realised it wasn't blue! I was very disappointed (and aged about 40!!).

I used to be bewildered by news reports saying that someone was "shot dead." I thought if you were shot you died and that was that. My Mum had to explain about flesh wounds etc - it was a revelation. I blame the cowboy films of the 50s and 60s where they all seem to die from one shot and no one rolls around in the dirt shouting "Ow! Bloody hell! You shot me! What did you do that for?"

I was proud of my knowledge, aged about 11, that sex involved putting a penis into a vagina - but I didn't know it had to be moved about. I thought you put it in and then sort of waited. Like plugging in a kettle sort of thing.

I grew up on a farm so had the opportunity to observe animals DTD. From this I assumed as a child that humans did it the same way-- by a male jumping on the back of a female. This made me think that it was not something I would ever want to do.

This thread is awesome. I was convinced the sun wasn't a star because it came out in the day and stars come out at night

I had just arrived in Canada and was suffering from jet lag - woke up to a report on the radio about aliens arriving in Vancouver. Was confused and petrified in equal measure. Only some years later did I realise what they actually meant.

That couples only had sex when they wanted to have a baby.

Our neighbours had two children and I remember thinking, well they must have had sex TWICE! :D

I always thought I had a disability as a child, and that my parents didn't tell me that I had that disability as they didn't want me to know and be aware of being different. I have no idea why I thought this, or what that disability actually was. One day, when I was about 10, I asked my best friend at the time if indeed I did have a disability and what it was. She said "I don't know if I can say, you should ask your parents", which cemented for me that I did in fact have a disability, and that my parents didn't want me to know about it in case I then felt defeated by it. So of course I didn't ask them.

I have no idea what this says about me.

I am another who thought wolves were fictional. I was never convinced that Lynx (the animal not the deodorant) really existed either. Partly because my brother told me you could alwsys gear them coming driving the lynx trucks shouting lynxy lynxy lynx

That islands float on the sea

NoArmani. Why did you think a baby horse was called a cunt? We need to know.

When I was younger I thought 'automatic' cars were like KIT from Knightrider and drove themselves.

My friend was a massive Bowie fan as a child and thought Ziggy Stardust was 'making love with his eagle' not ego.

I thought Pope John Paul II was god. I'm not Catholic, or even religious. It lasted until i was about 7 or 8. I just saw him on the news dressed in white robes looking smiley and blessing people and assumed he was god

I thought a cunt was a baby horse until I was into my teens

That might be the single greatest sentence I have ever read.

When i was younger when a couple got married i used to think it really was till death that they stayed together.

Miss what's the Discworld?

or even

I was about 11 when Louise Brown, the world's first "Test Tube" baby was born.

I couldn't understand how a baby fitted into that tiny glass tube [embarrassed]