when i was a kid i thought...

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I thought all countries were islands, because it looked like that in atlases.

I thought it was completely normal to stand in the playground and yell random words and numbers.

I thought incessant singleminded obsessions were completely normal.

I thought you could colour your eyes with indelible marker....decided I wanted blue eyes...my mother had to wrestle a pen off me.

I thought if you pulled a face, it would stay like that when the wind blew.

I thought as a child that if I rubbed the dust from butterflies' wings into my eyes, they'd get puffy, red and watering - I was told not to touch butterflies, for the dust from their wings, would do this to my eyes, if afterwards I touched them, while still having some of the dust on my hands. still I have no idea if that's true.

when I was 22 I thought I changed in to a cat.

Its a long story.

I believed that there were little musicians in the radio playing all the songs. I poked a hole in the speaker to try to see them.

When I was a kid, I thought I, once an adult, I would be elected to the US House of Representatives, then the US Senate.

Over time, boy did I thought WRONG!

When I was a child I thought that when I grew up my best friend and I would get married to hot guys who had really good careers and we'd each have twins and live in a mansion together.

I thought that once blood was gone from your body, it stayed gone. I didn't know that your body replaces lost blood. I was wondering how people donated blood without killing themselves in the process.

I didn't know that if you needed money you couldn't just go to the bank and ask for it but that you had to put it in there first.

I didn't understand that milk came from cows and not from containers in the supermarket.

I didn't know teachers went to the bathroom and ate and stuff. I didn't have any concept that they were people that existed outside of the classroom.

I thought it was OK to turn the furnace off as long as I turned it back on immediately.

...that buffalo wings literally were vistigial appendages harvested off of buffalos.

When I was a kid, I thought I was given up for adoption by a destitute East London couple and sent to an orphanage in Canada for my parents to pick up. My parents didn't act like real parents towards me.

I thought that babies come out of the mother's belly button.

When I was a kid and first learned about the concept of sex (about 7-8 years old) I thought people only did it because they wanted to have a baby . Boy, was I wrong.

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Me too!! !

When I was a really little kid, I thought that the inside of your body was just a bunch of tiny human skeletons floating around in blood.

Like CyborgUprising, I thought that buffalo wings were actual buffalo wings. But buffalos couldn't fly, could they?

I thought that if there was nothing--no universe, no earth, no life--then there would be a gray flower swaying in the wind on a gray field with a gray sky; all different shades of gray. I knew there really wasn't supposed to be ANYTHING, let alone a flower, but I just couldn't picture it otherwise. I thought about the nothingness a lot, normally in moments of semi-inactivity (I remember one instance where I was getting in the car from the grocery store parking lot), and it scared me.

A year or two later, I thought that if you used the computer more than once a day your brain would turn to jello, because my kindergarten teacher said so.

I also thought because my kindergarten teacher--probably one of the best teachers I've ever had--told me that a crush meant someone liked you (as those were her exact words); but in the sense that they just wanted to be friends with you, or thought you were a cool person, not that they actually LIKED you.

I was a pretty strange little kid.