Random things you believed as a child light hearted

[NimbleHiker]

I thought that my neighbours were moving their furniture about when it thundered. I thought that the moon was made of cheese. I thought that periods started on the first day of each month.

Lol.

When the minister in church said 'very God to very god' I thought it entirely reasonable that the fairies had a god as well.

That looks perfectly reasonable to me 😂

It is!

That cats were female and dogs were male of the same species .

Indeed! Not much you can say about something so ridiculous 😄

It's not illegal

I was 3 in the late 70s/early 80s. I genuinely believed I was a songwriter and that I had written In The Navy by The Village People, Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder, and Working My Way Back To You by The Spinners.

As a pp said, I also believed that every time a song was on the radio, that the singers were physically inside the radio.

Omg yes!! Same as you, and I still can’t shake that thought! As far as I’m still concerned they can and they do and I try and keep my hair over my ears 😱 They still freak me out as much as they did then, I get the creeps and feel sick if I ever see in and have to get as far away as I can!
seeing these posts, there are so many things that I think were quite common for many of us when we were children, so I’m not feeling quite so daft for mine now 😄
eta: I didn’t think the nest thing shaped like a wig tho, but yes I thought they would nest 😂

Glaswegians came from a different country, either Glasway or Glaswegia.

I was so disappointed when I saw a train go over the Forth Bridge @ThatsRoughBuddy . I mean why did they build it like a roller coaster and then go through the middle….just couldn’t get my head round that as a child.

Growing up in that part of the world I believed that all motorways were red, as in had a red road surface, because the only motorway we used to use when I was small was the M90 leading to the Forth Road Bridge…and it was red. Another disappointment.

I thought Switzerland was further away from the UK than China. I was quite surprised when I was old enough to have an atlas and saw the reverse was true.

I thought that eating carrots helped you to see in the dark.
When our goldfish died my mum flushed them down the loo and said they’d gone to heaven so I thought heaven was down the toilet.

Going to admit to a few more now - please go easy, I was little…😆 along with the people on the radio being inside and the earwig thing…
-I thought cats were girls and dogs were boys
-sprouts were baby cabbages
-mice were baby rabbits

Im sure there were more. I had rather a vivid imagination from the time I was little. I think maybe due to the fact that i was a voracious reader from a very young age; i loved books, i inhaled them, and enjoyed getting caught up in all these imaginative worlds, so im sure that’s where my imagination came in. That’s my excuse anyway 🤣

T'is not. My husband thinks it is

My brothers told me sausages were tiny baby pigs and grew into piglets

I used to be really confused if some died, did their body just disappear, if so why have a coffin? I can't remember how old I was when I knew the truth or how I found out as I was far to scared/ embarrassed to ask any of the adults! When my great uncle died when I was about 6 my grandma said that ' Jesus had called him', therefore I was terrified Jesus would decide to call me !

I thought when someone sneezed the polite thing to reply was 'Bleshu'. I remember sneezing and saying it so a kid in my class said "If you sneeze, you say bless me."

After that I would say 'Bleshu Me'.

Did eventually put together that 'bleshu' wasn't a word and people were saying 'bless you' 😅

Not quite the same, but I believed there were tiny people in the radio playing the music.

Was absolutely devastated to learn that clouds were not fluffy beds/trampolines. I thought you could get off the plane and jump around for a while. I had big plans

Same! Except a different bridge.

I went on a school trip, where part of the trip was to cross the river Tees via the Transporter Bridge. I was terrified as we drove towards it. How would the coach get up to make the crossing - and so high! (Red line on the photo).

When we arrived the bridge was closed for maintenance.

It was years before I found out that vehicle are transported by a suspended gondola (platform) hanging below. ☺️

Outing if my mum or sister are here but remember those really vague sanitary towel ads in the early 90s? Where they just kind of showed a picture of the towel and then a very happy woman swishing about but didn't really say what it was for? (Not even blue liquid!)

Well there was one that showed tbe pad then cut to a woman laughing with her hand on her chest (funnily enough, she's now what i picture when I read "tinkley little laugh). So 4 year old me decided she had something which looked like a pad down her top and was holding it. So I spent the next few days putting a square of kitchen roll down my top, holding it in place and laughing dramatically while throwing my head back.

My parents thought I was bonkers.

If someone was remanded in custody, they were in a pool of custard

That's adorable!

I have two that stand out.

My family used to go to a restaurant on the weekends that from the main dining room around the edges on the top floor were half sized interior windows complete with sheer curtains that looked over the dining room. From time to time you could see someone moving around or a curtain sort of moving. For some reason I was convinced that gnomes lived up there.

I was playing with a loud and I’m sure obnoxious toy when I was little. I went to get a snack or eat lunch or something and when I came back to the toy it didn’t work. My sister convinced me that the battery fairy came while I was away and took the batteries to be charged (this was well before rechargeable batteries were available) and if I wanted them back I had to go to bed early and recite a poem she shared with me. Funnily enough my mum didn’t correct the story when I went to bed insanely early that night.

In case you’re wondering, no Gnomes did not live above the restaurant and the battery fairy did come that night!