Stupid thing you thought when you were a kid

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I'm watching the first episode of Schitt's Creek on Netflix and the boy and girl in it are arguing over who gets what bed in the motel because if someone were to break in they would murder the person in the first bed. I thought the exact same thing when I was a kid - made sure my brother slept in the bed nearest the door because then I thought I was safe. Not an AIBU but what weird things did you think as a kid?

I thought cheese was made out of mould, thanks to my dad until I was 12!

My sister thought rabbits and guinea pigs were the same animal and rabbits were the female ones and guinea pigs were the males. She was about 15 😂

I used to think you could genuinely dig to Australia. We have a lot of family there and I used to spend 4 plus hours in the garden saying to my mum that I was going to see xyz in Australia.
easy way to keep me occupied mum!

That being grown up would be a lot more fun - stupid kid indeed

I thought leather came from very old cows who died naturally. Didn’t occur to me for years that I had never seen any leather looking cows out in fields!

20wedding19 ha ha I thought that too.

That Haggis was a specific small round furry animal.

I used to watch a programme called my parents are aliens and i was convinced my family turned into aliens when i went to bed. I am the youngest so got sent to bed first and i thought they were just trying to get rid of me 😂 i used to sneak downstairs and spy but never seen them turn into aliens. I had a very over active mind

Not sure if it was me or my sister that thought firemen started fires.

That having qualifications would help me in a future career.

That everything was paused until I encountered it. Like on a movie set when everyone is stood still, waiting to start filming their scene.

I had high opinions of my little world clearly haha.

I thought that chips were baby fish. I never liked fish, so I refused to eat chips. Fuck, did I miss out. Youngest of three and I’m still suspicious about why no one corrected me, those being the days of rare chippy take outs.

I thought that the clouds protected us from all the rubbish flying around in space. I blame The Clangers for that.

My mum was shocked when I was in my teens and said something about women being nurses. She thought that I believed that women couldn't be doctors but I thought that women who worked in hospitals were called nurses and men who worked in hospitals were doctors; I didn't realise that they were 2 different jobs.

A relative must have been trying to reassure me, after the death of a grandparent, and told me that when you died you went to heaven and had no body anymore. I took that quite literally and assumed throughout my pre school years that heaven was full of people with heads reattached to the top of their legs!

Growing up my mum made me go to bed at 6 pm up until I was about 14.... İt messed me up in the fact that I now associate 3 pm (end of school day) as being very late. İ get anxiety when we are out later than 6... İ haven't made this mistake with my kids. İf we are out and it's about 4 pm I always say ooo it's getting late we should head home. DH has to remind me that it's still the afternoon and the kids bed time isn't til 8 so we have 4 more hours still

İt's a feeling i can't shake even though i know it's stupid. İ have missed out on a lot in life due to my mum's weird ways

Actually. At 14 i had a period of being allowed to stay up later until she got a new boyfriend. Then it went back to 6pm for a couple of years...

As a child I thought the reason you got hot and sweaty from climbing a hill was due to getting closer to the sun...

(yeah - 300 feet in 93 million miles is going to do that!)

HAhelp101 my god I think your mum has some serious issues - that's weird.

HAhelp101 ah so she wanted you out of the way!

I was convinced snow fell due to whatever it was I was doing when it started. Did a lot of music as a kid. I used to ‘play’ to get the snow falling harder.
Definitely had a thing about pavement cracks.
I believed I could breathe under water (used to dream of this a lot) despite much evidence to the contrary.
I believed anyone over around 25 was old.
I truly believed my parents had no idea when I lied about stupid small stuff.

That was nothing. She really damaged me psychologically with other things. İ left home 10 years ago and only just starting to feel 'normal' now. Well I think i am... Not quite sure what normal is...

I thought that when women started her periods they bled continuously until menopause (it does feel like that sometimes, I must admit!).

That boyfriend became her husband. They my brother together and i would look after the baby after school and most of the weekends... They told me it was normal for 15 year olds to look after their baby siblings at all times. They used to send me out for walks with the baby. İ used to go the back ways as i was petrified people would think it was my baby.... Then when he was a toddler they would wake me up at 5 am to sit with him because it was my duty as the big sister....

HAhelp101 that's awful - I hope you don't have anything to do with her now - what a selfish woman (and man)!

That on its own doesn't sound too bad but when I wasn't at school i was basically my brother's mother. İ did the cooking and housework too. Mother would sleep most of the day and her husband would work but he was self employed and had a hell of a lot of massages in the week. So he said..