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.

Some bright spark told my ds that sausages where actually pigs willies

(I think it was my brother,his uncle as he had form for this shite in his quest to turn everyone around him vegetarian)

I believed for years that I invented the word 'secret' (God knows why) until I mentioned this to my mother and she shouted at me for being silly

I really believed it until that moment and cried because she said I hadnt

If i saw a to let sign i believed that the i was missing so the sign should have read toilet.

Before I learned about how babies are actually made i thought that when you got married you got given a baby and then asked for more if you wanted another!

oh god, I still think this now?!

I thought babies were made by a man and a woman pressing their belly buttons together

I thought this well into adulthood.

I thought twin towns had exactly the same layout, so like if one town built a new housing estate, the twin town had to as well

@SmoothSquirrelThey do help with vision in low light so partially true. Sort of.

I thought that only attractive people had sex.

I had this same thought about being a nun. Someone told me they were called by God or something and I actually prayed to God asking him never to call me. Couldn't think of anything worse 🤣

That if I closed my eyes, I was invisible, but not when I was sleeping. Only when I was awake 😃 😀

My mum said if I swallowed a pin I’d have to eat bread and cotton wool. She also told me if I swallowed soap I’d be on the toilet forever. When she caught my brother eating Vick (no idea why!!) she told him his throat would catch fire and I sat and watched him waiting for it to happen. I was a 50s/60s child and our parents brought us up by sheer terror!! She also used to make us wear our jumpers back to front if we had a sore throat as the back was higher. We did only have hand knitted jumpers then so no tags to irritate us.

That the Malvern Hills (which I could see from my bedroom) were wheeled away for someone else to enjoy them …when it was cloudy or misty. Took me years to realise it wasn’t true. I love my Grandpa to this day for telling me that as I live in their presence once again. 😊

I thought that women became pregnant spontaneously. That’s what Sunday school does for you.

That when a pub said free house outside it meant you got free beer!

I thought the Eton Rifles song by the Jam was about eating trifles 🤣 I also thought that if a character in a movie aged, they would have to wait for the actor to grow up before being able to film the rest of the film.

That presenters on the TV could see me, and I would try to make them laugh.

That whenever I rewound a cassette tape, I was making the singer sing it again.

That Uncle Ben (of rice fame) was my uncle, and I wondered why he never visited.

That they had to wait 30 years between filming the child and adult parts in Stephen King's IT movie. I couldn't comprehend that they would use different actors.

When I was small my mum used to work in a shop, on the door was a sign that said "Closed even for Ever Ready batteries". This baffled me endlessly, I only knew even as in odd and even. Why would the shop be closed on even days, and what were they anyway?

BTW thanks OP for one of the nicest threads for ages, for once no-one has found a way to spoil it!

I thought that the location of birthmark meant that was the first part of your body that came out when you were born. 🥴

I thought that when people got engaged it meant they wouldn’t be able to ring each other on the phone.

That when the icecream van played his tune, it meant that he had ran out of icecream & was just trying to make the children happy with tinkly tunes.

Also convinced myself to the point of panic attacks that drive through car washes would crush the car.

Ditto the aeroplane toilet. Refuse to even enter one now. Held my wee on a 14hr flight once 🥴

That's brilliant. I wish they did 🤣

My uncle told me there were Triffids about the first time I remember seeing that sign - I was terrified!

I remember going to the bank and paying in a five pound note when I first opened an account (was probably around 7?). I thought that my note would go on a little shelf somewhere and when I wanted to spend it I'd get the exact same one back. Like everybody who paid money in had their own special section

I lived in a rural area and I thought the signs pointing to bridleways were where you had to walk to church on your wedding day. I was a bit confused about how muddy they were, and why did everyone wear a white dress if they had to walk through mud to get there.