I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce
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    I thought that when the clerk at the checkout asked, “would you like cash back?” That you could say yes and they would just give you cash straight out of the register for nothing lol.

    I figured that most people were very honest and didn’t need the money, so they would just say no thanks and leave it in the register for somebody who really did need it.

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    I remember thinking that women gave birth to girls and men gave birth to boys, and being really worried because I (as a guy) didn’t want to give birth.

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    So many things…

    I didn’t understand how lie detectors were supposed to work so I thought you could hook someone up and ask something like “does god exist” and you’d be able to get answers to all of life’s big mysteries.

    I thought there was a left and right sock

    I thought wolverines were mythical creatures

    I thought if I tried hard enough I could somehow become older than my older brother like it was just a title or something

    Thanks to DARE any time I saw a skittle with the S missing I thought it was drugs even in a newly opened package

    I could go on…

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      I wanted an older sibling as a child and I remember trying to convince my parents they should have another baby. In my mind, if I just waited (my age +1) years, I’d then have an older sibling. It never ocurred to me that I would also age during that time…

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      Your comment about your brother reminds me that in kindergarten I thought that the line order (alphabetical) had something to do with status. My last name starts with C so I was pretty close to the front, but I had a friend with an A for a last name, so I really wanted to move up.

      I told no one of this of course until long after I’d grasped how alphabetical ordering worked myself.

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      My son was PISSED when I explained how his older sister would, in fact, always be older. He was sure he’d catch up.

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    841 year ago

    My dad told me that walnuts were owl eggs.

    He got in trouble when I stole all the walnuts in the house and wrapped them in nose tissues to keep them warm so they would hatch and I would have baby owls.

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    I was trying to figure out what caused wind. I noticed the leaves moving when the wind blew, and I knew that a fan (handheld) also moved wind. So it stood to reason that trees moved causing the leaves to move which caused the wind. And naturally it must be earthquakes that caused the tree to love. And then I thought, we’ll there must be a master tree that started the wind, and the most “logical” place for that tree would be the North Pole.

    So, that there was a tree on the North Pole that caused all the wind.

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    That sheep and goats were same species. I thought sheep were the girl versions and goats were the boys, like hens and roosters.

    Wasn’t until well into my 20s that I finally ran into something that put the spotlight on it… IIRC it was some Farmville type of videogame, which included males and females of both sheep and goats. To me, that stood out the same way a “female bull” or “male cow” would have, so I had a little chuckle at the obvious ‘oversight’. Realized shortly after that I was, in fact, a fucking idiot.

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    I thought cats were female and dogs were male. Can you tell I didn’t have pets growing up?

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      I know a disturbingly high number of adults over 40 that refer to every dog as he/him and every cat as she/her no matter how many thousands of times they are corrected on it.

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        Have you been around girls and boys. This makes perfect sense. I think the science might be wrong.

  • I thought black and what television was black and white because history happened in black and white. I suppose that means life in colour happened after the invention of colour tv

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    551 year ago

    I believed until I was 8 or so that beans were a type of meat. When I learned the truth, I had an argument with my older brother with me saying something along the line, “You’re gonna feel real dumb when Mom says I’m right.”

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      I did just now contemplate the feasibility of wind turbine amusement park rides. Aside from fixed seating and safety belts, the only real thing stopping that from being a thing are (safety) regulations, no? The blades themselves are probably already hollow and they could be pretty good money makers, even if the power output were diminished because of the heavier weight.

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    When I was five or six, I think I must have dreamed that my dad could turn his head around 360 degrees. A few days later I was in the car with my Dad and asked him if he could really turn his head around. He responded “not now, I’m driving.” I took that as a yes. It was years before I realized the truth…