When you’re young, you learn how things work and accept what you think as truth, until you grow up and realize you were wrong or confused all along. A Reddit thread digs into this by asking, “What’s the dumbest thing you believed as a kid?” These are some of the best of the nearly 4-thousand comments.
- "My mum told me we used to be apes. I believed her because she told me, but I didn’t understand why there were no photos of me when I used to be an ape."
- "That songs played on the radio were being played live each time they came on. Smashing Pumpkins song at 2 a.m.? I assumed they got out of bed to play it. My parents never corrected me on that theory."
- "I thought 'shoplifting' was like weightlifting, only instead of weights, people were lifting the entire store building. I pictured big, burly, bald men that liked to go around heaving store buildings overhead, grunting and red-faced, like the weightlifters I'd seen on TV. I was afraid someone would try to do it while we were out shopping."
- "Don't drink and drive meant all drinks. My dad was super confused when I told him he wasn't allowed to have any soda until we got home."
- "I thought Jennifer Lopez was named Jenny Ferlopez."
- "I would watch the TV in horror if a character on screen was smoking while drinking alcohol. I had a vague notion that alcohol was flammable, and I was afraid they would explode."
- "Cats are girls, and dogs are boys."
- "That if it was raining where I was, it was raining everywhere in the world."
- "That the high pitched noise on hot summer days was electricity running through the power lines. It was really grasshoppers."
- "Still waiting for that watermelon in my stomach to come out."
- “My dad was ‘checking for poison’ by always taking the first few swigs of my cokes.”
- “That a guitarist had to use a pick when playing an electric guitar because the strings would electrocute you.”
- “That Johnny Paycheck turned into Johnny Cash.”
- "When I was about 6 or so, I asked my dad what the button on the top of the clock by my bed was for. He said it was for the alarm. From then on, I was afraid to push it because I thought it would call the fire department."
Source: Reddit