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!

Until I was in my 40s I always assumed that when I got long sighted as an older adult it would cancel out my abysmal short sightedness and I'd be able to see without needing glasses for the first time since primary school. Gutted to find out that not only can I still not see beyond the end of my nose but I can't read with my contact lenses in without holding a book at arms length....

DD1 asked me how babies came out of such a small hole and then answered her own question by saying that obviously they came out in pieces and then you put them together. After the tears she gave me I rather wished they did.

That all adults had their shit together and knew what they were doing, then when I became an adult I would know what I was doing in life too.

Turns out we're all mostly winging it just trying to get by.

That being an adult was then eat and no one could make you feel stupid/cry . That adults takes through issues and matters got resolved. Big load of billowing bollocks

Spelling “stupid” incorrectly is making me feel itchy

Not me but DS. He attended a Catholic primary despite not being Catholic or particularly religious. He used to think the line in the hail mary "blessed art thou amongst woman" was bless the hands that go swimming. It took his teacher a long time to realise and correct him. Thankfully they saw the funny side.

@peakygal

Posted this before but up until maybe 6 years ago I thought Zebras were fictional. I remember my parents telling me that a Zebra was a horse in its pyjamas ready for bed. So I spent many years thinking any pictures I saw of a zebra was a horse made to look like it was in pyjamas 🤦‍♀️ not my best moment when I realised

That is so sweet!

I thought handbags were called hambags! One day as a teenager I was walking through Debenhams I saw a sign for 'handbags' I think it then dawned on me that I had been so wrong! Imagine a bag made of ham 🤣🤦🏼‍♀️

My cousin told me that a homosexual was someone who had sex in the house with someone else who lived in the house.

I was 15 when my mum corrected me and told me it meant gay

@sashh

DesignforLife

My mum would confidently tell me things that were not true

eg

You can't use a deed poll to change your first name - except I did

X (person in family going to uni) has got their grant / loan and spent it already

I didn't go to uni until I was in my 30s and found out you had to actually enroll to get your first payment.

I'd bet my car she's a prolific mumsnet poster, based on that

@CustardySergeant

When I was little I thought that faeces/poo/shit whatever you like to call it, was called "properly", although I think pronounced it "proply".

This was because, when I first started to use the loo on my own, my mother would ask me afterwards "Did you just wee, or did you go properly" (presumably to check I wasn't constipated). So if we were out and I noticed some dog's mess on the pavement I'd say "Mind the dog's proply!"

It was called Dirty in our house. Right up until I went to high school and embarrassed myself in front of everyone. I confronted my mum and she just laughed as she thought we (me and my brother) knew it want really called dirty. No idea how it became dirty in our house. So "dog poo" was "dog dirty " etc

@BubblesThaDragoon

I thought life in the olden days’ was in black and white and life became colour somewhere around the late 1960s as this was when my Gran had coloured photographs from 😂

I thought life used to be black and white too

Another poster has reminded me that my 6yo ds asked how blind people felt the tactile paving through their wheelchair wheels. I felt like I had really failed at parenting that for some reason he thought all visually impaired people were in wheelchairs?!?!

@FredAndChips

I thought rumble strips on the roads were for blind people to tell them to slow down... I thought this until i was 22

Howling at this one

Cowdenbeath should be in Wales and not Scotland. Dunkirk should be Scottish not French.

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

Yep me too!

@Gobbeldegook

That my mum's "Swiss cheese plant" actually produced cheese, and that all the cheese we used in the house came from that plant. I believed that for years. No idea why, I was a relatively bright kid 🤣

Did you ever watch Green Claws @Gobbeldegook? That might be why. They could grow all sorts of things.

Carlisle isn't in Scotland

@RagzReturnsRebooted

That Timbuktu was a fake place you referred to when saying somewhere far away and foreign. Like PP with the Outer Hebrides.

That Franks and Artra were a pair of composers.

Mind blown on Bolivia, had to Google that as I didn't believe you. I'd have guessed somewhere near Latvia. Also had to look up Middlesbrough and Penrith (I grew up in Wales but assumed it was there somewhere).

Timbuktu was where the Mr Men lived! (I also thought it was made up.)

I used to think that you only had sex to have a baby too, I remember discussing with friends that their parents must of liked sex more because there were 3 siblings in their family and only 2 in ours.

I used to think being pregnant must be quite embarrassing because then everyone would know that you had had sex fairly recently 😂

@ButIcantsitonleather not that I recall but it's possible

Timbuktu is an oasis in the Sahara.

I remember 1st year at high school Geography teacher asked if anyone knew the name of the biggest oasis? I blurted it out the class laughed but I have no clue how I knew it!

@TheMarzipanDildo

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

It should be in Germany.

I have just learned that now! I better read on in the thread- I need to know more...

When you put money in to the bank it was kept in a little drawer with your name on until you wanted it back.

That the indicators on a car turned on e.g. indicated left to tell you the way like some psychic satnav

@Twernip

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!

@Twernip. Is that not true? I've genuinely always thought that's how it worked. Where does all the extra water come from then 🙊🤦🙀