What's the most ridiculous thing you used to believe?

that adults are grown up & have their shit together

When I was like 10 I believed the conspiracy that Obama was actually Osama bin Laden in disguise

That teachers lived at school and went to bed as soon as the children left.
That any animal could be bred with any other animal of any species, I really didn’t understand why adults didn’t do more of this.
That I would grow up to be heterosexual.

As a very small child, I was terrified of the vacuum and ran from it, believing that it could suck me up. 🤣

As a kid I thought if I held my breath long enough, I could be burned alive and perform on stage as a skeleton.

As a child,I thought that women would just wake up pregnant,and they would look nine months pregnant the whole time.

That life would get easier

all midgets came from the Wizard of Oz

That a secret society of freemason luciferian lizard people secretly inhabit all branches of government and are plotting to create a globalized, despotic government which will persecute christians and force them to get demonic microchips in their wrists, a la the book of revelation. Also, FEMA body bags. I was raised on Chick tracts.

That while some girls were bad, none of them were evil.

That babies come-out of the anus.

that my family was a happy and loving family

Before I got into metal my 9 year old self thought the genre would make me a Satanist.

When I was 10 I stopped believing that.

Woof!

God

When I was about 16 or 17, I used to believe in psychic abilities, particularly telekinesis. There were these videos on YouTube of these con artists who claimed that you could learn how to move small objects with your mind if you focused hard enough. And yes, as embarrassing as it is to admit, I did spend some time trying it.

I also believed, because plants are living things, that they were somehow conscious. So I thought it was wrong to kill plants. I found out years later that this belief is actually a thing and is called ‘Fruitarianism’ because, similar to how those who believe killing animals is wrong only eat plants (vegetarianism), those who believe killing both animals and plants is wrong only eat fruit (since eating a plant’s fruit doesn’t harm it). Hypocritically enough though, I wasn’t even a vegetarian at the time, let alone a fruitarian. I also used to talk to my plants. Although I no longer believe they can somehow hear me, that habit has evolved into to me talking aloud to myself instead, which I still do.

When I was 10 my sister was 12 and it was her bithday and we lived apart but that night she stayed over at our house. I hadn't noticed the night before but the next morning I saw through her nightgown that she had little titties. For a while I thought that on the night that girls turned 12, their titties popped out like suction cups.

I used to think that all languages were essentially English, but with the letters scrambled into a different order. I thought that people who didn't speak English needed 'help' to speak 'proper language'. Needless to say, I didn't live in a very diverse area. Also, my little brother needed a speech therapist and I went along with him sometimes, so that probably contributed 😅.

I believed I was a vampire when I was like 8. I feel really sorry for "trans" kids now; esspecially ones who's prents go along with it.

I used to think that all men who worked with young children were sexual predators, just waiting for their moment to pounce on the children.

At 8 I thought that having $1.00 was being rich.

For a kid my age? yes it was.

I can dimly recall believing when my age was in single figures that when a news report talked about a "body" being found, it was just the torso. I have no idea where that came from, but I remember being puzzled about what happened to the head and limbs. Did they just sorta fall off when a person died? Did murderers routinely hack them off and take them away? Maybe they rotted really fast?

Hard to tell whats the dumbest. I believed fish live under the manhole cover and they ate rocks.
I believed that adults never cry and clearly remember the first time I saw it. I thought all girls have long hair and all boys have short hair. That there were trolls living in the closet (but dad told me that as a joke). That I could easily walk to Spain from Norway (I tried that). And that if you jump while in china you fall down to outer space since its upside down (was told that too). At some point I believed I was an alien species. I also believed that literally everyone in the world were collectively hiding something from me in particular (that one may be the dumbest)

That if I looked up at the sky I would float away.

Do they not?

Used to believe I'd always see the world a certain way