I'm bored, so...tell me, what was something you always believed as a child that isn't really true?

I have so many, it's sad

I thought my dad had psychic powers because when he would come home from school, he'd say, "Sooo, you got 100 on your spelling test? Huh?" It never dawned on me that he spoke to my mother

Also, someone told me when I was little that an X rated movie was a really scary movie and I think I believed that until I was a teenager

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that if you did it doggy you'd have a boy!!

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Posted by mrswask

that if you did it doggy you'd have a boy!!

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I know I have so many and now I can't think of them.

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I thought that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys!

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Posted by luckyinlove

I thought that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys!

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that those scary old VW hippie vans were all driven by kidnappers

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I seriously believed that all teachers were EVIL and lived just to make my life miserable. That their sole purpose in life was to think of ways to assign the most homework and exams they possibly could.

Now, some of my BFF's are teachers, and I about this all the time!

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that freddy would come and get me in my sleep if i was bad thanks dad

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I thought that I was really going to grow up to be Wonder Woman... with the bullet proof wrist guards and the truth telling lasso!

Where the hell did I leave that invisible jet of mine??!!!?!?!?!?!!!!

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Posted by mrswask

Posted by luckyinlove

I thought that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys!

I still do

Message edited 11/30/2007 11:57:22 PM.

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Oh, I also believed my dad when he told me that famous people used to come by his office to see him He's a college professor, why in hell would they go see him?

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I thought my dad was an astronaut. My mom made me a astronaut costume for halloween with a NASA badge on it. My dad always talked about going to work at NASA. Years later I learned he worked at Nassau and was a professor not a astronaut.

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That El Cuco (spanish version of the boogie man) would get me if I was bad

At one point I thought that when someone got fired they actually got engulfed in flames...

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My dad was pretty much the insomniac and used to fall asleep on the couch late night watching t.v.

I used to say, "Daddy, if you are still in the living room, Santa will see you and not give us our Christmas gifts!!!"

He used to say, "Don't worry, whenever Santa comes into the room and sees me awake, he sprinkles "magic dust" to make me fall asleep.


My liittle bro was afraid to wake up early Chirstmas morning for years (magic dust).

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Oh and a mothers intuition regarding the sex of your child during pregnancy. My mom always said, "You just know." She never found out and picked our appropriate names. (3 times).

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Message edited 12/1/2007 12:25:51 AM.

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That if you crossed your eyes and someone hit you on the back, you would stay that way forever!

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After asking my mom about where babies came from, I somehow wound up thinking that just living with a boy or being too close to them would get you pregnant. (Mind you, this was about 2nd grade...)

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I used to really believe that you could dig your way to China, which I totally tried to do a million times. And for some reason, in my head, that meant that the US was at the top of the globe (like at the Artic) and China was at the very bottom (where Antartica is).

I am embarrassed to say that I believed that until I was a teenager. even though I'd seen maps and globes, I never connected it.

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When I was young and asked my mom where babies come from she told me the technical aspect of it, that the man's sperm fertilizes the woman's egg which grows in the woman's "belly" and then 9 months later a baby is born. I was too young then so she said that when I got older she would explain more.
Well I knew that the man and woman were in bed when they made a baby but I was picturing the man in his PJs on one side of the bed and the woman in her PJs on the other. I thought they just had to lay in bed together to make a baby. I couldn't figure out how the sperm was able to travel across the bed to get in the woman's belly and how it knew where to go

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I believed the phrase "Your face will freeze like that".

And whenever someone asked what I wanted to be when I grew up I always responded, "I want to marry Daddy and become a Mommy". I thought that was legit - little did I know about incest!