when i was a kid i thought...

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You turn into a star when you die (mom told me this and I believed her)

You are not your new age on your birthday until you blow out your candles on the cake (mom told me this too and I believed her)

Any kid that bullied, they had bad mothers (That can still be true but not for all parents)

People were fat because they ate too much and never exercised (well that is actually true but I was not aware that is wasn't always the case with each person)

Anyone can do the splits, they just have to keep working at it and loosing up their joints so they can be flexible

My human heart was in the center of my chest, not on the side

All the food went down to my feet and then when it gets up to my butt, that is when I have to poop because it gets full and it's ready to come out

If you leave clothes in the dryer for too long, they shrink into the side of a Barbie outfit (mom told me this when I was five and I believed her)

If someone didn't take care of their home, my parents had the ability to kick them out and fix the house u and find new people to live there (they owned a few houses so they rented them out, I didn't know as a kid it was their home, so when they would kick people out of them for not taking care of the house, I thought they kicked people out of their homes, not because my parents owned the house so they had authority over it and can evict people out of them)

People owned their apartment, not rent

Once you vacuum something up, you never see it again

Mom hated pets (I had this impression as a kid because my mother refused to get a cat or a dog)

People who don't like kids were mean and evil people and are mean to children

Stepmom was a mom who was mean and abusive and all step moms are like that

All parents love their kids and don't abuse them

If you leave drips on bottles like on ketch up or mustard or syrup, you get a hefflelump and they are so big, they fall through your floors wrecking your house (Mom told me this)

In the Columbia River Gorge, there was a space ship on the cliff from Star Trek (mom told my brothers and I this and we all believed her. She was actually teasing but because we all thought she was serious, she let us think that because she didn't want us to be disappointed)

The Memorial Coliseum here was Disneyland because that was where we go and see Disney on Ice and I believed all the Disney characters there were real and they all lived there

Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy and St Nick were all real, duh

The three bears live in the forest somewhere in a house

Before I was placed into my new school, I thought I had to do school work at home or else the kids in my neighborhood who go to the school would keep me in my old school I was still going to (That is what I thought mom told me because she said "They will keep you there if you don't do your work" and she was actually talking about my school, not the kids and she mentioned the kids and then she tells me that so I thought she meant them, not the school)

The earth was flat

Anyone can go to outer space and see all the stars and the moon and other planets

My mother's belly button was the baby's head

If I turn the setting to cool in my home, the place stays cool (we didn't even have a air conditioner and I was setting it to that setting until mother told me if I keep on doing that, it will wreck it)

The weather man controlled the weather and he told you what we be having

Dalmatians can talk and I thought for a while they were called 101 Dalmatian

Whenever you need money, just go to the bank and get it and why work if you can go to the bank for it? I thought people worked because they wanted to, not because they have to so they can keep a roof over their head and pay their bills

Parents can control their kids and be controlling (actually being too controlling is bad for any child and it's also bad if a parent is so controlling and never give their kid choices) I also thought they enjoyed yelling at their kids and punishing them and spanking them and slapping them and taking things away from them and grounding them because it's all about control (Parents don't want to do these things actually but they have to because it's called being a good parent and sometimes parents do yell when they get stressed out or scared or to catch their attention when they are dog something dangerous or about to. Not all parents slap or spank their kids because they think there are other ways of handling it and don't believe in that discipline) I also thought having kids is all about being in control and controlling them and having power. I thought that was why people had kids. (that be the very wrong reason to have them if someone did have them for that reason)

Hearts are in the middle, the normal misconception is that they're to the side.

I always thought when people said they'd do something, or promised, they'd actually pull through and do it.

I thought I was really good at lying...I wasn't :-/

I thought poo was evil when I was a kid, so I'd wait until it was dark outside, before I'd go poo.

When I was very little and I first started elementary school, I thought teachers lived inside of the school.

I used to think that everybody just went home to their parents after school. I did, and on my own free will. I didn't know about any after-school stuff.

that it was duck tape not duct tape. i like the first version better.

Yeah, I like duck tape better, too!

I thought that ATM machines dispensed free cash to all adults who had a special card. Hence, I thought it was very mean of my parents to only give me 10p per week when they could seemingly withdraw unlimited amounts of cash from walls just using their special card.

I always wondered why my mother didn't ask the machine for more money than she did. She only ever seemed to ask it for £50 or £100. Then she would tell me that she couldn't buy me this or that because we didn't have enough money. Doh!

I thought she was being very silly not taking advantage of the machine's generosity. I would have asked it for loads and loads! LOL

I thought the same too. It does sound like "duck tape."

...that babies were manufactured and implanted in females in large, windowless factories located underground.
...that kids couldn't die; death was for old people.
...that we'd all be teleporting or driving hovercars by now.

Coins were more than a dollar. If you have five coins and a ten dollar bill, I thought the coins were more, not the dollar because it was only one paper


I was playing on the couch when my brother and then I pushed him off and he hit his head on the brick of the fire place. It cut his forehead open and dad had to take him to the ER for stitches. I thought it was all my fault. It was actually the nanny's because she took the blanket off the fire place

I thought I was a bad girl because I was always getting into trouble and I misbehaved at daycare and had problems there because I was bad. It was actually the teacher there that was the problem. As for me when I was older and always getting into trouble, poor impulse control and not reading social cues and understanding social situations and not understanding people

I thought hospital was called hospoll. That is what my nanny called it

Penises were called Pee pees. Mom called them that for years so I thought that was what they were called. I was in high school when I learned it's penis and that's the real word, not a nick name for it. That is why I am against using baby talk for my own kids

Pacifiers were called binkies. That is what my mother called them so I thought that was the real name of them

Menstrual pads were called diapers. That is what my mother called hers

Pull ups were not diapers and they are not meant for peeing in because they are not made for that. So I wondered why they were even around and why are they thick like diapers

Older kids wore diapers because they thought they still had to wear them and don't know they aren't babies anymore

All women have their periods and wear "diapers" for it

Certain people have hair down there

Certain people cry

I could hit other kids when they make me mad or call me a name I don't like and take things away when they don't do as I say and also make stuff off limits to them if they treat the item a certain way I didn't like but it wasn't allowed in school so I didn't do it there. I saw mom doing these things so I copied her thinking that is what you can do

My mom was strange because she was tough and wouldn't let us bully other kids and pick on them and she wouldn't buy us things we always wanted. Now I realize she was a good mother and all the other parents were not because they refused to supervise their kids and didn't care if their kids were mean to other kids. Plus mom didn't spoil us with getting us toys like some parents did.

I'd grow up to be a bum I was right.

My mom made the comment that oatmeal "sticks to your ribs" (figure of speech meaning that it is a hearty food), and I took it literally.

I believed that my parents were angels disguised as humans. (They were that good at being my parents. )

I thought that teachers had to learn everything about the entire universe in order to become teachers.

I thought that cats had a single mate for life, and that their mate was their "husband/wife"

Since no one would talk to me about sex, I figured that it was something really gross, like a man and a woman drinking each other's urine. (I would later learn the truth when I checked out a book about pregnancy from the school library that had a section on "conception" in it. )

I thought that my mom had part of her finger amputated because I bit it off when I was a baby (every kid in my family gets told that they did that; my parents must find it amusing to keep circulating that story)

...that Mr. Tickle would stretch his super long arms into my bedroom and tickle me to death.

...that all the adults knew a big secret about the world which they would share with me the day I turned 18. (turns out that wasn't the case and I carried on feeling that way til I figured out I probably have Asperger's :p)

That there were shadow demons hiding in dark rooms, and the only way to avoid them was to run really fast and barely touch the floor.