Silly stuped things your younger self thought was true 🤪😳

[Justjackie]

I will go first...first job after leaving school..thought you paid tax then at end of year got it all back! I thought it was some kind of loan to the government 😳 heard mam and dad mention getting '-tax-back' over the years and thought that was what happened!

@Cheeseandlobster I don't think anyone knows 🤣🤣

Same as others about women having won equality.

I do call all dog he or ‘what a good boy’ and all cats her ‘what a beautiful girl’, but I never thought that cats were all girls etc. Perhaps it’s because we had cats and dogs when I was growing up.

I thought that clouds were ghosts until about 10, terrified of them I was

@StanfordPines

I do call all dog he or ‘what a good boy’ and all cats her ‘what a beautiful girl’, but I never thought that cats were all girls etc. Perhaps it’s because we had cats and dogs when I was growing up.

In Welsh, which is one of those languages where everything is either male or female, cath (cat) is female, while ci (dog) is male.

i thought that when my parents played tapes in the car, the radio DJ had to sit quietly in the dark until he was needed again. i felt very sorry for him.

i still don’t understand how fax machines work, it’s like some dark magic. i’m 48.

I always though Enid Blyton was male as I'd never heard the name Enid and thought it was a really old mans name like Enoch.
I was a bit surprised to realise she had the time to write so many books in the olden days as women were all kind of house maids or mothers scrubbing floors and baking pies and looking after babies.

And obviously Roald Dahl was really Ronald Dahl but it was spelt wrongly on his books!

Or Roald Dahl was Roland

Bill Payer was an actual person, called Bill.

'Please ask Bill Payer'

That women just decided to have a baby - Men had nothing to do with it.

I imagined it went like this -

Lady - talking to herself one bright spring morning -

'Ah what shall I do today?
I know, I'll start growing a baby!'

and Lo, the Lady was with Child.

Perhaps it was because of all the talk of angels and Mary at primary school.

Joseph just doing stuff with wood in the background.

But even now I think it would be a much better way of doing things tbh. I think it is biologically possible but sadly not for us humans.

I knew an old lady who got smaller and smaller - I thought all old people did that and then - poof! disappeared.

(The lady probably had a medical condition causing a collapse of the spine sadly, I just thought she was magical)

Also thought gay man sex involved lying in bed facing away from each other and rubbing their bottoms together..well... I couldn't see what was so exciting about that.

I used to think people who were racist didn't like people just because of the colour of their skin. Rather than a whole set of assumptions and stereotypes about different ethnicities. Which people were prejudiced and discrimatory against. I think because I grew up in a very white place I'd not experienced much racism as there wasn't anyone to be racist against!

Feels so stupid now

I also didn't understand when people would talk about being ill or injured with something that would get better being challenging. I'd think well you know you'll get better so what's the big deal. Or even if it was long term but not hugely serious. Probably until my very early 20s.

I realise now illness and inability to do stuff in your normally way is massively challenging. And it isn't as simple as am I going to die? If not I'm fine! I think this was just a lack of understanding of people and others experiences.

@TheMarzipanDildo
In your defence, Strasbourg sometimes was in Germany. It's in Alsace - I remember from my European history lessons at school that France and Germany waged endless wars over Alsace and Lorraine and they changed hands quite often.

When I was 7 I thought a woman got pregnant because she had too many kisses I her tummy

I realise now illness and inability to do stuff in your normally way is massively challenging. And it isn't as simple as am I going to die? If not I'm fine! I think this was just a lack of understanding of people and others experiences.

I think it's pretty common not to realize this until one has experienced a long-lasting illness. Right at the moment, it contributes to a lot of Covid minimization ('only X per cent die [though that still means an awful lot of people!] so it's not really that serious!')

@LunaNorth

Glamorgan was in Scotland. It still trips me up, to be honest.

It just sounds Scottish to my ears.

I still have to keep reminding myself that Flintshire is in Wales, not Scotland. How could a place called Flintshire be anywhere but Scotland?

@FloconDeNeige

That the taller you are, the more intelligent!

Well I'm about 8 feet twelvetythirty so that must be true!

According to my mum, I was convinced that little girls grew up to be male. I would say 'When I'm a grown up man...'

Also thought the expression to make ends meet was to make hen's meat.
And until more recently than I'd admit, that a herring was a bird and a caper was a fish.

That men were lovely, sorry!
bitter and twisted I am.

Tandem prams were torture chambers in which the child in the back would be eaten I mean in my defence, my best friend was the middle of three and the naughtiest out of all of them so used to get put in the back so that’s why I thought that ...

Used to think Dubai was a country not a city

That in high school it’d all be singing and dancing and all of us in it together - like high school musical. Despite numerous warnings from older cousins I didn’t believe them. I was shocked with what it was really like. I didn’t have the worst experience but not the best either!

That I’d fall in love and meet the perfect man etc etc live happily ever after etc. Sadly they’re useless IME!

Cats are girls and dogs are boys

Couldn’t get pregnant out of marriage and likewise with sex, just putting it in and leaving it there!

Its only this week that DS (aged 9) has realised that carpenters do woodwork, not lay carpets. Which reminded me of a friend who must have been late 20s at least when she believed that a new man she'd met worked in a chipshop, as he said he was a chippy!

Ooh another one! My sister and I worked in a dog kennel that was a breeding, showing and boarding kennels. As you may know, when female dogs are in season (like womens periods) that's when you arrange for them to be mated. (You know where this is going, right?)
For a long time I thought you had to have sex whilst on your period to get pregnant and thought that was revolting. My sister thought the same!

Mine were:
If you are a nice person you will meet and marry a rich man, live in a big house and dont need to work but can do what you like.
If you work hard in school you can do anything you want regardless of anything else.
I thought I could play football for England if I practised hard enough. The fact I was female and didnt play for a club somehow wasnt going to be a barr to it.
I did think by the time I grew up we would be living on space stations.

I never realised that INXS and In Excess were the same thing, one I'd seen written down and one I'd only heard

I'd never realised this until I read this post!

I also thought it was illegal to have the lights on inside a car while driving.