Things you used to think and now can't quite believe you did

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I saw a seagull flying and it suddenly occurred to me that when I was little, I thought there were two different types of seagulls. Ones with legs, and ones without. Naturally the ones with legs had no choice but to fly all the time

I was a pretty bright child, I can't imagine why I thought that.

Please tell me someone else out there thought the same?

So . . . there is no dome at Centre parks . . . ?

I'm quite distressed about the Center Parcs dome. So why do people go?

I thought that about Centre Parcs too! Where on earth did the idea come from?

I used to think that about Centre Parcs too.

I used to believe that Colgate toothpaste was mined in West Sussex. Thanks Mum.

I didn't know until last year, at the age of 38 that the cartoon character Yosemite Sam, isn't actually called Simmity Sam. I just thought that people would always say hello to him by saying 'yo, Simmity Sam' and that Yosemite is actually pronounced Yo Simmity

I thought centre parcs too! I'm sure it was on an advert. In fact, are you sure it doesn't??

Another one here who thought Centre Parcs was under a big dome

The swimming pool complex is under an all-weather dome. The rest of the site is just normal outside!

I am loving the number of people who, like me, thought it was possible and economically viable for Centre Parcs to construct a massive climate controlled see through dome which would let in sunlight but keep out rain, sci fi stylez.

I had a book of Disney stories when I was little, one was called "Donald Goes to Disneyland" and he took Hughie, Dewie and Louis to a place called Disneylad where there was a Dumbo ride, cars for kids to drive, a place with dolls of the world - I was convinced it didn't really exist! (To be fair, I only ever knew one girl at school who had been abroad on holiday, she went to Torremolinos 'cos she was rich, so Disneyland might as well have been a fairy story).

Just joining the ranks of those who believed CentreParcs were all under big domes!!

Oh and for a long time as a child I though Christmas was on 24th December, not really sure why though, but I remember being disappointed when I found out that it's actually on the 25th.

You'd be surprised at the number of adults who believe that if a cow has horns it must be a bull! (Frequent misconception heard at farm open days)

I used to think that if someone went into a coma, they went into something that looked like an iron lung.

In my defence, I was about 9. A girl in my year had 'gone into a coma' and I didn't understand the concept or the consequences. I vaguely remember the girl. I was always impressed by the way she beat the shit out of arseholes with her crutches, and couldn't understand why her egg was sellotaped on during the egg and spoon race. And why the grown ups dabbed their eyes during the race.

When I was a very tiny Cailleach, say about three years of age, I firmly believed that colour did not exist until recent times, and that the world had been once black and white.

Why else would there be black and white photos and films?

Embarrassed, just remembered long convo with friend about the astronomic prices at Centre Parcs and how I would never pay that for the privilege of breathing in other peoples air all the time and not getting any real vitamin D. She must think I'm a right numpty....

So relieved I wasn't the only one confused about gorillas with machine guns attacking people in the jungle.

Thanks to primary school sex ed I thought people only had sex to make babies, you made a baby every time (so I came home and told my mum she'd done it 4 times), and I was also very worried about the man accidentally doing a wee inside you as I thought it would be easy to get confused. Like he would consciously have to decide - wee or semen this time?

I also used to think there was a giant brick wall sphere all around the Earth higher than you could see, that sort of kept everything in and not floating off into space.

I thought that the dips in pavements outside people's driveways was caused by the cars driving over the curbs and changing their shape over time.

It wasn't until I was about 18 I realised they are laid like that!

I used to think my parents could read my mind.

I also had the guerrilla and CentreParcs confusions.

When I was about 6, in the 70s, a teenage neighbour of ours got pregnant. I remember having a hushed conversation with my friend about how she would go to prison now.

Same for Guerilla/Gorilla, Center Parcs dome, and Arkansas

Also, until I was about 10 7, I used to think the people I watched on TV could actually see me too...

In the 80s watching Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles cartoon, wondered why you never see them go to the toilet

Pronoucing Epitome as eppy-tome for years. I thought there were two different words for the same thing

And when I first heard about Periods, aged about 9, I found a leaflet in my Mum's bathroom cabinet. From the diagrams, i was convinced you put a tampon up your bum

I realised only a couple years ago that Alan Partridge is not a real person :S

I thought that my wee came out of a tiny hole in the end of my clitoris for a long time....I had one older brother so I think I just assumed it was my version of a willy, just incredibly small....made sense....!

Daisy, snap, I thought the same too

I used to think that cats' eyes in the road were actual real cats' eyes and I was very upset about it.

definitely the guerrillas confused me too in the 70s

David Bowie and his eagle - yes

learning to drive - mention by driving instructor that car without/ with clutch engaged was 3 wheeling? in my head the car is like a Robin reliant with 1 wheel off the ground itms or like the car in a stunt film with 1 side raised up, don't ask me how

dh said a while later the term was free wheeling

Oh hurrah, Olive, glad I'm not alone!!