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!

In my teenage years, I really believed in film romance!
All the drama and the way people just fell in love and completely ignored any possibility that they weren't really suited (with music in the background).
Obviously at age 50 and divorced, I have learnt what relationships are really like

If you stayed in the swimming pool after the lifeguards told you to leave/got left in by mistake and weren’t noticed etc. it was really dangerous because when they pull the really big plug out you get sucked under the water. This happened to my sister’s friend who had her toes sucked off due to the force!
Those 1970s tie on roller skates were dangerous too. My sister’s other friend broke her leg vertically - it split in half - when the skates separated and the toes went in one direction and the heel in the opposite direction.

@Missdread

Someone I know thought until very recently that LOL meant "lots of love"..... until a rather unfortunate Facebook comment upon the death of a friend's relative....."So sorry to hear your news, lol"! 😬😬

My mum thought this as well! She actually text me to inform me of a death in the family and said something like "X's dad passed away this evening. Everyone is devastated by this loss. Lol. Xxx"

Thankfully I was the only person she text as I was working nights so nobody else got the hilariously misjudged text message.

I thought that women got pregnant from kissing men.

When a boy at school told me how babies are made, I refused to believe in anything so ridiculous as a man putting his willy in a woman's woowoo.

It did explain why there weren't millions of orphanages housing all the "spare" babies produced as a result of kissing in films and on tv though.

That marriage was for life ... exh had other ideas

When I grew potatoes for the first time in my 20s I was surprised when they came out of the ground different sizes 🤦‍♀️

@TheMarzipanDildo

Until very recently (University Challenge yesterday) I thought Strasbourg was in Germany.

It should be in Germany.

Wowowo calm down, we (French people) fought to get it back!

I am glad to find I shared my wrong assumptions about sex with other posters. Originally I managed to grasp that conception resulted from a man putting his penis in a woman's vagina but that was it. I had no idea about ejaculation or even erections. I thought the man somehow stuffed his floppy willy in and the couple then rolled around kissing for a couple of minutes. This was what I had understood from glimpsing bedroom scenes in Dallas, Dynasty etc. (the rolling around kissing, not the floppy willy-stuffing). It seemed incredibly boring to me and I couldn't understand why adults were allegedly so keen on it.

I also used to think that as soon as you became an adult you would immediately know everything and be completely competent and capable. (Hollow laughter.)

I had no idea that mortgage payments were mostly interest and only very gradually eroded the debt and that you'd pay far more in interest over the term than you had borrowed. I was in my 20s and getting a mortgage when I found this out. Until then I thought the bank kindly bought the house for you and you gradually paid off the loan only. When I went through a load of notes from school years later it turned out we had been told/taught all that but it must have gone in one ear and out of the other.

Also ... went to Scotland for a holiday when I was 6 or so and my sister even younger. Our parents teased us about "looking out for the haggises" when we were walking in the woods. We went into a gift shop that was selling cuddly toys called "Wild Hairy Haggis" and our parents bought us one each. I remember thinking "so NOW I know what they look like" and the next time we walked in the woods I was so sure I saw one rustling through the undergrowth. To my shame, we went to Scotland again when I was about 14 and my parents were laughing one day saying "do you remember when you and sister thought haggises were real little fluffy creatures" and I realised with horror that not only was it not true but that I had believed it ALL THAT TIME.

I used to think pay as you go mobile phones had to be physically filled with coins, like putting them in a money box. I’m SURE I saw my uncle sat at a table with a pile of coins in front of him putting them in his phone! But he must have been doing something else.

Thought Dunkirk was in Ireland, I still can’t get my head around it being in France. I got very confused learning about WWI at school

This will date me, but I thought that when something went into a fax machine it was literally sent to the other end and the same piece of paper came out there.

@sarahc336

I thought cash out of the cash machine was free and always wondered why my mum didn't get more out 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I thought the machine printed the notes.

I probably should not admit these..... As a very young girl I remember thinking that babies came from ladies bottoms in very much the same way as a poo does (....?!). When I was 12 my biology teacher showed the class a creature in a case which he said was a Haggis... famous for running round mountains backwards in Scotland (I believed him). Getting confused between the words Guerilla and Gorilla on the news when I was little and wonder why a large monkey would want to hijack a plane. Equally when I was young rather than use the term peadophile, newspapers used to say x has been convicted of sex with a minor... at 12 I understood what sex was, but assumed that having sex with a miner was illegal as you might get very dirty indeed.....Bottom line is I was quite gullible lets be honest!

In Catholic school, I thought that the altar bread was REALLY Jesus' body, and I was worried that there would be no leftovers for me when I'd reach the age to take it.
Quite revealing that I wasn't worried at all of eating a piece of an actual human being.

I also thought that Jesus invented the words in the dictionary.
Because in French, the christ in Jesus Christ is pronounced "cri" (but if you say "the Christ, it's "crist"). And "cri" means "scream".
Since I knew that in Jesus' time there were no microphones, I thought that Jesus was screaming the words to people.
I have this vivid image of Jesus, in front of a church, showing a bucket and screaming "BUCKET" so people knew how to call it and so on for every single thing in the world.

@Chanjer

Cats and dogs were the same animal, dogs were boys and cats were girls

I thought this too!

Because of an overheard conversation between my mum and her friend about a medical issue involving white blood cells, I thought some of your blood was red and some white. As I only ever saw red blood when I cut myself, I assumed the white blood must just all be really deep down!

Cats and dogs were the same animal, dogs were boys and cats were girls

I think my elderly (and unsurprisingly childless) godmother must have thought this too. She always referred to our (female) dogs as "he" and the cats (male) as "she".

I believed period dramas and Jane Austen novels - that when we were grown ups we'd all be living in giant townhouses in London unless we were banished to the country when it would be a tiiiiny five bedroom lovely 'cottage' with loads of land.

Reality doesn't quite compare!

Oh yeah, related to blood, I also believed that we had our allowance of blood for our whole life and was worried that I wouldn't have enough to live a long life, because as any child, I had a lot of minor injuries involving blood (and had a tendency to pick my scabs and therefore, bleed again)

I never knew what a tabby cat was either... just googled that one!

@moofolk
I definitely believed that being a feminist was a waste of time as men and women were equal anyway... until I started my first grad job really. Then the scales fell from my eyes.

Until BLM I don’t think I considered the UK to really have a race problem either but I accept that the signs were there I just chose not to believe it.

Until Sarah Everard’s vigil I trusted the Police 100% And then I saw the Police that night pushing a woman on crutches I think she was and then heard about all the other Police done for rape and DV etc... Today I heard the Police have decided that they behaved appropriately that evening. Total nonsense.

@FastFood - the screaming Jesus! Brilliant.

That mice were baby bunnies and sprouts were baby cabbages. There are probably waaay more!

My brother’s friend told me that pakora was made from animal brains - believed that for years.

Oh, and when really, really little, my parents had a big, old radiogram. When it was on there was a little orange light. I'd spend so long trying to look in through the light to see where the people on the radio were 😂

A friend was told by her older sister that a period lasted a month then you had a month off.

Luckily we had the puberty talk soon after!

I believed (until my Dad put me right at the grand age of 28) that if the tide was in along the coast of Sussex, then it was out in France, and vice versa.
It made sense to me!

I also had the one of thinking deuce in tennis was juice. I thought the umpire was saying it was break time and so you could have some juice to drink....I thought that until I was at least 16...