To ask about things you believed as a child that aren’t so...?

[Piglet89]

I was convinced there was a law that meant adults couldn’t argue or fall out.

[quote DrMadelineMaxwell]@ohtherewearethen

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Well that embarrassing 😳 I should have carried on reading instead of posting 😂

I thought (or rather, was told) that the music on the ice cream van was for everyone to know that the ice cream had run out!

That artex ceilings were illegal and my gran and grandad would go to prison if anyone found out they had it in their house.

I can only assume I misheard a conversation about asbestos?

@ComDummings

I thought it was illegal to have the inside lights on in the car while you drove.

Wait - what?!

@Alicesweewonders

When Mum would drive us through the countryside, she told us to breath in the smell of manure becauseit was good for our lungs

I’m glad I’m not the only one who was told this!

I thought it was illegal to have lights on inside the car when driving..!

I thought bath water came from the same place as toilet water and you shouldn't get it in your mouth. Pretty sure my mum told me that. Also bath related, if a hair got in the bath it made a funny pattern, a weedybug according to my mum. And the hot water got hotter faster if you put your under the tap....!

When I was a kid, I was absolutely convinced that anyone that died in a film or programme actually really died, like, they volunteered or were ill or something so was just like..."yeah, kill me, it's fine"
I was always quite surprised by how calm they were just before "being killed"

I thought adults had their shit together and weren’t just winging it! My dad would roll down the Car window whilst we were rolling ours up if there were manure smells, he’d shot ‘Snoch that up kids, it’s a guid country smell it’ll make ye grow !’ In his best Ayrshire farmer accent!

I thought there were tiny bands/singers inside the stereo speakers when i was very young.

I always had a fringe as a child and I didn’t like it, but I always believed that people were born with fringes or not so I was stuck with it for life. The day I realised if I let it grow without my mum taking me to the hairdressers to get it trimmed (or cutting it herself), I wouldn’t have to have one anymore was wonderful

I genuinely believed there was a machine that made clouds. We used to go past this big building which had all this smog stuff coming out going up to the sky and my mum told me it was a cloud machine. I had no reason to doubt her 😂

I thought planes landed on the beaches at holiday places.

I thought that when they made compilation albums like Now 33 or whatever, they had to get all the artists to record it on the same day. I always wondered how they managed to get everyone free at the same time, especially with their busy pop star schedules.

@UnderperformingSeal

As a very small child, when TV screens were still made of glass, I thought that if I broke the screen and climbed through it I'd emerge the other side in the TV programme.

Me too

I thought Lucy was a boy’s name

I thought a fire alarm had a little elf inside it and when he smelt smoke he would dong the bell inside the fire alarm really hard to alert everyone. I was most disappointed to find out they run on batteries and not elf power 🤣

I thought Jesus was Brazilian - there’s a city in Brazil called the Portuguese version of Bethlehem and I had no reason to believe Jesus was born elsewhere...

Father Christmas.

I thought that tea was a drink for women and coffee was a drink for men because my mum only drank tea and my dad only drank coffee. I was astonished when a very manly electrician came to the house and drank tea. Shamefully I was about 15 at this point

@OhIGetItNow

When I was a kid, I was absolutely convinced that anyone that died in a film or programme actually really died, like, they volunteered or were ill or something so was just like..."yeah, kill me, it's fine" I was always quite surprised by how calm they were just before "being killed"

Always thought this was the case too

I also used to think that once I was a teenager/adult I’d never be bored again, as I’d never heard my older cousins or adults complain about being bored. Completely untrue, I thought I’d never be bored once I was older when in reality if I’m fucking bored out of my mind quite often I just don’t whinge about it

My daughter believed for a long time that there was a man sitting in the machine counting out the cash.

But that’s true, surely? There’s a little man in there who irons all the banknotes; that’s why they’re so nice and crisp when they come out. Haven’t you noticed that ATMs only give you crumpled notes at busy times, like Saturday nights? It’s because the little man has to hand them out faster than he can iron them.

Aaand that adults had their shit together, it was easy to be an adult and be happy

I always had a fringe as a child and I didn’t like it, but I always believed that people were born with fringes or not so I was stuck with it for life.

I used to genuinely believe you could just cut off your fringe if you got fed up with it, and that would be that. Thankfully I never had a fringe, so never put that theory into practice!

@Hardbackwriter

I thought that tea was a drink for women and coffee was a drink for men because my mum only drank tea and my dad only drank coffee. I was astonished when a very manly electrician came to the house and drank tea. Shamefully I was about 15 at this point

I always thought the opposite. Coffee is a ladies drink and tea is for men!

I also thought Drs and Nurses were the same job but that Drs were men and nurses were women.

I used to work in a MH unit and one of my patients asked how his favourite film star was on TV when he was dead. Trying to explain how things are recorded to a man with brain damage was fun!

Another patient couldn't understand how his favourite singer was inside my mobile phone when he was dead and bigger than a phone. He figured it couldn't be a record as my phone was too small to play them, so the actual person being in my phone seemed the only logical explanation. (Said patient was in his 80s and has been in MH services for close to 60 years so cds and mp3s are beyond his understanding)

I thought that people in their twenties were really old and people in their forties were totally past it and boring.

How wrong you can be?