Things you used to believe

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I thought cars actually blew up the way they do in movies.

I thought skeleton bones were white (that is only true if you're dead)

Blood is red (it only turns that color once air hits it so that is why we always see red blood when it comes out but it's not that color inside our body)

I thought keeping the house clean was OCD so that was why I had it because I loved to clean and keep our house neat and didn't like messes and I couldn't understand why that had to be fixed and also the fact I liked to shower every night and be clean.

I thought OCD was a component of Asperger's and each symptoms of it had their own labels (thanks mom)

I thought the Easter bunny hid eggs until I was 7 and then I found out at age 7 the parents did it because I happened to go up in the playroom in the middle of the night and my mom got mad at me and I saw them doing the eggs and I got upset because I thought they took them away from the Easter bunny and I was worried he wouldn't be able to hide them. My mom told me the truth but she didn't tell me he wasn't real, only he didn't hide them, the parents do. I didn't figure out the Easter bunny until I was nine because if Santa isn't real, then the tooth fairy must not be either nor the Easter bunny.

I thought in some movies people had weird cars and weird TV sets and weird bikes and I couldn't understand that was how everything looked back in the days and the movie was taking place in the past. I didn't figure that one out until I was in 4th grade when I learn how things had changed over the years and that not everything existed in my parents childhood days. I also thought all the kids must have been bored back in the days because of no VCRs and video games and no cable and no TV remotes and things I had as a kid didn't exist when my parents were little so I thought they must have been bored so I was so glad I didn't live in their times.

I thought everyone in the world hated Hitler I didn't know there were people out there that think he was a great guy and are Holocaust deniers

I thought communism was where people believed in everyone should be handed things than having to work for it such as homes and houses and food and cars. I had no idea it was about control and they kill people to keep everything the same and people are not allowed to make choices or to leave their country.

I find this fact really fascinating.

My sister is much older than I am (over a 20-year age difference) and she tried to once convince me that she is my real mom and my mom is my grandmother. This was after the three of us were in the grocery store and a cashier said to my mom, "Your daughter and granddaughter are gorgeous!"

I used to think electrical items blew up when in contact with water when not plugged into the wall.
I only found out when I was 10, when I saw an old TV in a river, and asked my mum why it's in good condition and not blown up, and said it would only blow up/catch fire if it was plugged in somewhere whilst or after being hurled into the water.

used to believe that i was cisgender and neurotypical. just did not know those words.

used to believe that my reward for studying fanatically for the SAT since before 7th grade, was that i could get a STEM job. not only was i wrong, but i could not get any job whatsoever. minimum wage. menial labor. unskilled labor. at least. not without getting fired.

used to believe that if someone was nice to me, it meant he was not racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise prejudiced.

used to believe that since precious little "most people" mispronounced my name, it was ok. but maybe in the future, it will be considered racist to mispronounce someone's name.

used to believe that since precious little "most people" called prepubescent boys "guys", while they called senile women "girls", that was ok. but maybe in the future, it will be considered sexist to call someone a "girl" unless you call someone the same age a "boy". no "guy/girl" terminology. bigots.

used to believe it was illegal to go to the wrong bathroom.

used to believe that i could be myself and fit in. at the same time. wrong. not only was i wrong. as usual. but i can't even do one at a time.

used to believe that through diet and exercise i could make my worthless corpse the weight and shape/size i wanted. wrong again.

used to believe that everyone was homophobic. wrong.

used to believe that bigotry was unusual and exotic. wrong.

used to believe that academic intelligence was the equivalent of moral goodness. wrong.

used to believe that if i lifted weights, i could get big muscles. wrong.

used to believe that precious little "people" were fundamentally good. wrong.

That sorta thing happens for real to some folks.

Rock guitarist Eric Clapton was born out of wedlock to a teenage girl who continued to live with her parents after giving birth to him. As he grew up his grandparents told him that they were his parents, and that his mom was his "sister". Finnally one day they told him the truth:"we're actually your grandparents, and that girl over there is not your sister, but is really your mom" (it was a traumatic moment for him).Have heard similar stuff in the biographies of other famous folks, and also in the growing up one particular INfamous person.

Blood is always red.

But then why do veins appear blue, you ask?
The blood itself is VERY DARK RED, because veins are low in oxygen. The way light passes through our skin layers makes it appear blue. Air does not make it turn colours.

Well, I guess you can say the oxygen makes it turn colours, but that happens in the lungs and capillaries (AKA inside the body) There is no colour changing when it comes out of the body.

When you shine a light through your hand or ears, it glows red/pink, right?

The blood in your arteries is BRIGHT RED because it's full of oxygen.

I used to think that all blood is based on haemoglobin. Octopus blood is based on copper, and is green. I'm amazed that we can eat each other, but I guess that's been going on since the divergence.

I used to think that stupid people were not very dangerous.

I used to imagine the cinema as only showing Mickey Mouse movies. I also used to think the screen was about a quarter of a mile long.
I didn't go to any cinemas until I was about 11, so I didn't know what it was like before then.

How are they dangerous?

You are amazed that octopi can eat humans, and that humans can eat octopi?And are "amazed" just because the two species have different colored blood?

Well...imagine a person dumb enough to text while driving. And then imagine that person getting behind the wheel of a car, and then getting on the same road you are on.

In my mother tongue "fired" is "getting kicked" and i thought that it involved getting kicked out a window after being laid off.

We are, of course, good at digesting plants and fungi, but I don't know of any other food that requires us to pass much copper. I sure couldn't keep a scrap of aluminum foil down when I ate it accidentally.

In my experience, they become emotional and break both agreements and laws in wholesale fashion. They are also generally quite oblivious to logical proofs, leaving me nothing to count on. They even have a basic distrust of science, since so many smart liars pretend to be honest and helpful.

Yeah, but you dont eat bolts, screws, nor even iron filings either.

But that doesnt stop you from scarfing down rare hamburgers dripping in iron rich hemoglobin based cow blood!

And you might take iron pills too.Liver is rich in iron too.

And doesnt hemoglobin have some copper in it to assist the iron in grabbing oxygen? Thats what some substitute teacher told us back in junior high one day.