Odd things that you believed as a child

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Isabella's comment about husbands dying before wives, made me think of something else. In elementary school, maybe about 9 or so, I suddenly came to realize that most people seemed to get married once they grew up. Even though I didn't know of anyone who had married a classmate, for some reason I assumed I would have to pick among the boys in my class, I guess I just couldn't imagine where else I would meet someone. The thought almost sickened me, as I wasn't interested in them. I even tried to imagine it, and let's just say that my day dreams were dark. That worried me for a short time back then before I forgot all about that idea.

It wasn't my first worry about marriage either. When I was 3 I crushed on a boy in my daycare, let's call him Dennis. I would talk about him a lot and tell my parents all about the stuff he was doing. One day my mom laughed and said: "I think someone likes Dennis!"
She just made a joke, but it got 3 year old me concerned and the actual thought I had was: "Do my parents expect me to marry Dennis?"
I thought he was cute but I wasn't convinced I'd wanna get married to him! What kind of 3-year-old has that kind of thought?

When I was around 12 and AIDS was all over the news, I thought at first you could get it from using someone else's toothbrush or going to the dentist. A lot of adults believed in stupid things about it as well. A lot of them still do.

And now it's like that all over again with Covid-19. But I don't recall morons licking toilet seats or sipping from bottles of juice in a store during the AIDS pandemic. But HIV isn't nearly as easy to catch as Covid-19.

In an effort to make sure my brother and I ate the crusts of bread, she told us that when bread bakes, all the nutrients go to the crust. I believed that until somewhere in my teens.

I had the bread crusts make your hair curl one too!

And the one about carrots conferring the ability to see in the dark.

I read a lot of ghost stories as a kid, and I thought that nearly every neighborhood had an old abandoned house that was rumored to be haunted (and was quite unhappy to be in one that didn't).

^ I did too, I wasn’t meant too but I found several books of them in my grandparents attic.
There was a patch of bare plaster where the paper had torn off in my childhood bedroom that looked like a wolfs head: I was sure it was watching and waiting for when I fell asleep.

When listening to the old 60's rock on the radio, I thought that the bands were there in the studio playing live. It was amazing to me that so many of the biggest bands in the country tended to hang out at the two radio stations I listened to.

I believed that Eric Clapton really did shoot the sheriff (but not the deputy).

I thought he was confessing.

I always expected the radio announcers to say something about his arrest.

When I was little I thought all babies were born with clothes on, it wasn't until when I was about 6 I was told that babies are born naked obviously, so I asked my mum "how did you know I was a girl then?" and she said, "because you didn't have a willy".

I also used to think that you get so big when you're pregnant that your belly finally bursts open like a balloon and out comes the baby just like that, and your belly just repairs itself in a few seconds.

And, like most kids, I thought women only got pregnant with girls and men got pregnant with boys.

I didn't believe my mom when she said pure cocoa didn't taste good. I had to try it myself. I was very surprised to say the least.