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

[treaclesoda]

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?

[Blithereens]

Honey ones are real obviously! And feminist ones

[doorbellringer]

That Auchtermuchty wasn't a real place. Up until a couple of years ago - I'm 33
When I saw a road sign for it I blurted out "oh that's a easy place I thought it was just a funny saying" dh nearly crashed the car laughing and I tried to pretend I was joking!

[doorbellringer]

*real not easy!! Pfffft

[Peanut15]

That a utility room was where the knitting happens as I called it the little knitty room for years!!

[HumphreyCobbler]

I used to think there were two different cities in the US called Los Angeles and Ellay.

I read on here once that someone else thought the same thing. I am not alone!

[weatherall]

I used to think part time was park time and that it had something to do with the car park.

I used to say pacific instead of specific and artic instead of arctic.

I thought that your money in the bank was kept in a little box with just your money in it.

I didn't know what the other meaning of pussy was until the other girls had got a good laugh out of me!

Didn't realise raisins were grapes or prunes were plums.

I didn't think most people had sex until they were about 21 or older.

[walsalllinguist]

that chihuahua was pronounced chee hugher hugher.

[CogitoErgoSometimes]

Our family never travelled and I'd never met anyone foreign so I thought 'French' was an interesting but essentially pointless exercise they just taught you at school like 'Algebra'... I didn't think anyone actually spoke it.

[whatadrama]

When i was a child my Dad used to refer to what i thought was a close friend called "matey",

I spent hours of my childhood wondering why we never got to meet this frequently mentioned chap called matey because sometimes he was hilariously funny, other times he was an annoying git, he gave good advice, he gave bad advice, he wound my Dad up, he was a good bloke and sometimes a bad bloke

It took until i was an adult to realise that "matey' is a general term for random people my Dad had met

[MissHobart]

that bloody woman - it does on the Discworld!

[RabbitPies]

I love these threads. They make me feel almost normal.

I'm howling at wolves being fictional. Had you never seen a photo of a wolf before, or one on television,Emmanuel?

[BreconBeBuggered]

I always thought newsreaders were godlike wise men who knew everything. I also thought they were really kind of shitty for sitting behind a desk yakking away when they could have been out there stopping the bad stuff happening instead.

[GoldenGytha]

I was about 11 when Louise Brown, the world's first "Test Tube" baby was born.

I couldn't understand how a baby fitted into that tiny glass tube [embarrassed]

[GoldenGytha]

or even

[ThatBloodyWoman]

Miss what's the Discworld?

[AdeptusMechanicus]

When i was younger when a couple got married i used to think it really was till death that they stayed together.

[spiderlight]

I thought a cunt was a baby horse until I was into my teens

That might be the single greatest sentence I have ever read.

[LindaMcCartneySausage]

I thought Pope John Paul II was god. I'm not Catholic, or even religious. It lasted until i was about 7 or 8. I just saw him on the news dressed in white robes looking smiley and blessing people and assumed he was god

[neverthebride]

When I was younger I thought 'automatic' cars were like KIT from Knightrider and drove themselves.

My friend was a massive Bowie fan as a child and thought Ziggy Stardust was 'making love with his eagle' not ego.

[RabbitPies]

NoArmani. Why did you think a baby horse was called a cunt? We need to know.

[beachhut]

That islands float on the sea

[MagnaCharge]

I am another who thought wolves were fictional. I was never convinced that Lynx (the animal not the deodorant) really existed either. Partly because my brother told me you could alwsys gear them coming driving the lynx trucks shouting lynxy lynxy lynx

[HiawathaDidntBotherTooMuch]

I always thought I had a disability as a child, and that my parents didn't tell me that I had that disability as they didn't want me to know and be aware of being different. I have no idea why I thought this, or what that disability actually was. One day, when I was about 10, I asked my best friend at the time if indeed I did have a disability and what it was. She said "I don't know if I can say, you should ask your parents", which cemented for me that I did in fact have a disability, and that my parents didn't want me to know about it in case I then felt defeated by it. So of course I didn't ask them.

I have no idea what this says about me.

[IkeaFurnitureAssemblyChampions]

That couples only had sex when they wanted to have a baby.

Our neighbours had two children and I remember thinking, well they must have had sex TWICE! :D