Things you used to believe

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When I was like six I thought shoes had a hidden system of gears, and pulleys, inside the thick leather of the top part of the shoe, and that the laces were the only visible part of this machinery. So tying your shoe (which I couldnt yet do) was sorta like driving a car- working the control levers of a complicated hidden machine. Wasnt until some grown up showed me how to tie my shoes that I got the surprise insight that "what you see is what you get". That the laces were all that there is to "the machinery" that holds your shoes to your foot .

1. I used to believe that one apartment across the street was a place where people got operations (surgery). This was because the place had institutional green walls.

2. I used to be scared of the Gerber Baby because I thought it was a picture of a dead baby.

3. I thought the Moon and planets had some vague evil intention for me.

4. I halfway believed in Santa Claus. I thought: "you never know."

5. I had some vague belief in the Tooth Fairy.

6. I really didn't know women had a urethra as well as a vagina until I was about 18 years old.

I use to be religious and conservative. I decided they were not for me. I used to believe legos were the best thing.

I'm embarrassed to say this, but I literally had to look number two up. I didn't know they didn't. I mean, I thought it was a general passage. Well, it isn't my body...school didn't teach us this stuff. I'll get going now.

I'm guilty of this to an embarrassing extent still. When I was little and my dad wanted me to leave him alone, I interpreted this as that he wanted me to leave the house. So I cried for a half hour as I packed things into my little bag. I couldn't reach the deadbolt so I had to call him to open the door for me. He then explained that he wasn't serious.

There was the time that I thought that I had something weird on my face (I finally noticed my nose on my face, I thought it was a weird growth or a wart like a witch). To avoid being burned at the stake, I covered my nose the whole day. It wasn't until my mom got there that someone actually explained that it was my nose and that I usually didn't notice it. -_-. I had the same cycle with other things until we went over body parts.

I briefly believed that when people and animals were 'killed' in movies they were actually killed.

1. As a kid thought shoplifting meant physically lifting a shop

2. Took everything my bro said to me literally when he meant sarcastically (which led to me getting into trouble most of the time)

3. if you dream of someone giving birth, a family member dies (vice versa)

4. if you cross your fingers and promise it doesn't count as a promise, but now I don't believe in promises or the saying "swear on my life" because i've lied before in such manners, both intentionally and unintentionally where i deemed it necessary

Up until 5th grade I thought the other children were all going through a 'silly' phase and grow out of being overly concerned with silly things like some boy who thought some girl was cute. I got worried when I realized people didn't care about science, or facts, but fashion and television shows.

When I was old enough to date I believed some girl would find me interesting because I was different from the other lads, and would want to date me. I was SO disappointed to find out that the more a guy followed the herd, the more girls liked him. The girls thought I was gay....

I was quite surprised the first time I looked through a calendar. If you had told me that the year was not equally divided into school time and summer vacation time, and that one was considerably longer than the other, I'd have guessed that the vacation was the longer one, based on how many memories they generated.
I also have had dreams in which local landmarks I'd never seen appeared, and later been surprised at their actual locations.

I wonder how many Brits you have offended with that ignorance because that is a common mistake foreigners make. Most people think England and the UK are the same thing or that Great Britain and England are the same and that UK and Britain are the same.

Up until 6th grade I thought Boxing day was a sports day where people do boxing.

I thought my parents kicked people out of their homes for not taking care of them. I didn't know then the homes they would kick them out of was actually homes my parents owned and they had bought them to rent them out. They did tell me it was our house but I didn't understand then because we weren't living in it so it's not our house.

I thought rules were made by adults to get kids into trouble and that adults punished kids to get back at them. I couldn't wait to be an adult so I could make all the rules to punish kids and watch them suffer and have children of my own to make rules so I could punish them whenever they make me mad so they will stop pissing me off.

I thought cooties was a disease

I thought everyone said what they meant so if you were doing something that was bothering them, they would tell you to stop and say it was annoying them and if they wanted you to leave, they would tell you to. If they didn't want to be your friend anymore, they would say they're not your friend. Kids always had to be direct with me so I thought this was how everyone communicated.

It's worse than that. Ireland (Eire/Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) is not part of Great Britain or even the United Kingdom! The whole system is bloody stupid and leads to errors because of its complexity.

* England = England (whether or not this includes Cornwall is debatable according to some)
* Great Britain = England, Scotland and Wales
* United Kingdom = Great Britain and Northern Ireland
* British Isles = Great Britain, Ireland (the whole island - Northern Ireland and the Eire/Republic of Ireland), Isle of Man (not part of the United Kingdom) and any other little islands within its waters.

I think that's right

As for answering the question? I didn't think that I was bullied at school as I generally won any fights I had because of it. It was only recently that I realised that I was bullied on a daily basis and whether I won the fight or not was irrelevant.

I hear that if you go to England and call it the UK, they will have a cow about it. But yet they can come here and say they are in the US and we won't have a cow about it just because they didn't say the US state they were in but instead called it the US. My argument is England is part of the UK so therefore they are in the UK like I am in the US because Oregon is part of the US and I am in North America because the US is part of it and so is Oregon. I sometimes like to make fun of that because of how picky they are.

Unlike the other three things I believed females peed out of thier vagina well into my 20's. If I remember correctly I learned it from reading a porn letters magazine.

FYI
Women's urine exits from?

I remember when it was the year 2008/2009, I used to be obsessed with the planets and the "end of the world" in 2012, and I used to think that planets had genders and that the planets were all friends. I came to realize that all they simply are, are just planets, no gender since they don't have any body parts.

I used to also think that my future teachers would be superheroes/villains because my sister used to have a teacher named "Mr. Freeze", so I would think that my teacher would be "Spider-man" or something along the lines.

Down here, the laughter tends to come from the mispronunciation of place names: Perranzabuloe, Treloquithack, Landewednack, Perranuthnoe

Oregon is one of those places I'd love to visit. It looks beautiful, although if I was to pick a US state to live in I think it would be Montana as it's very large and I think the only residents are two people and a dog, so I wouldn't have to talk to anyone