What is the dumbest thing you believed when you were a kid?

[Polymathic]

8 year old me sitting in the class opposite the girls toilet, wrecking my brains wondering "Do girls poo?"

 

[chewiesw]

That if you swallowed a fruit pip , it would grow in your stomach.

 

[ninjaman509]

That if you swallowed a fruit pip , it would grow in your stomach.

I was quite concerned about the amount of bubblegum that must have been stuck inside me. As it is well known that it takes 7 years to digest

 

[now05ster]

The average man is a good man

Additionally, that good will always prevail over evil. Especially in the context of justice.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

well done really. Apart from fairy & santa, what about god belief - did you detect BS early as well ?

Yeah. My folks used to get awkward and annoyed whenever I used to ask why can't I see god. And why do I have to pray, why can't god just visit so I can ask for things in person...

 

[SykomantiS]

Additionally, that good will always prevail over evil. Especially in the context of justice.

Or that the government is a good thing.

 

[The Darkness]

That if you swallowed a fruit pip , it would grow in your stomach.

Also pepper I was told never leaves your body! Perhaps pepper was expensive back then?

 

[Sanzer]

That once i grow up and start working it would be fun having independence and money....

 

[Tabac]

Never knew there's that many dumb kids.

 

[Cius]

Life gets better as you grow up. Being a kid was so much better.

 

[Zophos]

When I was a kid, I believed that life is fair, and bad people get what they deserve.

“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.”​

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

 

[LCBXX]

Masturbation is good for a boy/man.

 

[LCBXX]

Eating red meat causes cancer.

 

[LCBXX]

Fluoride is good for your dental hygiene.

 

[LCBXX]

The Stanic Panic of the late 80s/early 90s.

 

[newby_investor]

The Stanic Panic of the late 80s/early 90s.

Is that the one about vehicle finance?

 

[Smugs]

I believed that real life colour was invented sometime in the 1920's or 1930's.
I thought that before then everything was in black and white.
People walked around looking at everything in black and white... cos movies showed everything in black and white.
And then one day somebody must have invented colour.
And from then one the movies showed everything in colour....
It wasn't the movies that devloped colour, it was real life that changed to colour....
One day I asked my Mom and Dad when everything switched to colour.
They just laughed at me....

My sister believed the exact same thing...

 

[netstrider]

Couldn't understand how Cruywagen fit himself into a box in our living room and would then just **** off.

 

[cguy]

When I was 5 I asked a friend who had a computer, what “programming” was. He told me you could use programming to make a computer “do anything”. The idea of having my very own servile god was quite intriguing, so I taught my self to program and I got a computer at 6. I would say I was a tad disappointed, but it still beat the hell out of playing pong.

 

[Harmonic]

When I was 5 I asked a friend who had a computer, what “programming” was. He told me you could use programming to make a computer “do anything”. The idea of having my very own servile god was quite intriguing, so I taught my self to program and I got a computer at 6. I would say I was a tad disappointed, but it still beat the hell out of playing pong.

Interestingly, that feeling of "god", got me into programming as well. Oh how wrong I was, dear sweet summer child