Ridiculous Things You Believed As A Kid

[TheDreamMaster]

Because you are. It made me feel old too.....I remember one day I had to ask my sister wtf is hash tagging and why I needed to do it. She laughed at me, shes 6 years younger. I felt old for the first time then.

I'm only 24 and I am still figuring out that Twitter stuff. I don't have an account myself so its never been worth it to me to learn anyway.
I remember AIM, I was using it like 6 years ago. MSN messenger too.

As a kid, I was a pretty religious kid, but I my Dad let me play the Doom games on our PC and I never once connected Doom with hell or anything. And surprisingly it never scared or disturbed me.

 

[bullets]

I woke up in the middle of the night when I was very young ( 3 or 4) and spied on my parents putting presents under the tree on Christmas Night. That morning I asked my mom which gifts were from Santa and which were from them. The next couple years they had to write from mom and dad on a couple of the gifts.


One of my childhood friends ( Robbie) thought he could build an airplane by collecting metal scraps and putting them together. I just went along with it. One time I lied to him and said I saw Ninja Turtles in the sewer. Unfortunately he believed me and gathered some kids from the neighborhood to investigate. We were armed with makeshift weapons made from sticks and string. Also we had cut t-shirts and made ninja masks. I lead them to an open pipe , but chickened out when they started to crawl in. I said I heard my mom calling and ran off.

 

[NickNitro]

Bullets, when I was younger (6-7) I woke up the same way, and looked down the stairs to see my parents putting gifts under the tree. For about 2 years I kept it a secret from them that I knew.

 

[Donnie Darko]

I remember my older brother and I would stay up almost all night in his bedroom on Christmas Eve. One time we could hear my parents and my very loud grandmother going in and out of the house and making a lot of noise, especially my grandmother who could apparently could not control the volume of her voice.

My brother (who knew what was going on) protected me by telling me they were cleaning up (we would have the big family Christmas Eve dinner/presents at out house with cousins and all that). I believed that's what was really going on, even though there wasnt THAT much mess, and why were they doing it at midnight?

 

[Sundancer]

I remember thinking a woman's breasts were smooth, no nipples.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Did they also feel like a bag of sand?

 

[PSYLENTGuardian]

Did they also feel like a bag of sand?

 

[Xeno]

When I was really little my older brothers convinced me that all the snot that comes out of your nose is really bugs that crawled up there while you weren't looking and died. We lived out in the country so there were lots of bugs around, which I thought explained all the snot (not allergies). Every time I had a runny nose I got hysterical because I thought dead bugs were dripping out of my face. I sorta semi believed that until the seventh grade.

 

[SpiderCool]

I believed that Superman was real, but he was actually the size of a real spider. Once i thought I killed him.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Why was superman the size of a spider?...god damn it, John peters is at it again!

 

[SpiderCool]

Why was superman the size of a spider?...god damn it, John peters is at it again!

Oops, I meant spiderman.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Lol no problem, I'm glad you messed it up, it's not often I get to drop an obscure Jon peters joke.

 

[PSYLENTGuardian]

Lol no problem, I'm glad you messed it up, it's not often I get to drop an obscure Jon peters joke.

Would it ruin the obscurity if I understood your joke?

 

[hopefuldreamer]

I believed my teddies where alive but only came to life after I left the room... But sometimes I'd plead with them, try and bargain with them, make them every promise under the sun that I wouldn't tell... Of course, they never did show themselves to me

I also thought animals and even bugs had consciousnesses as advanced as ours, but just didn't speak like we did.

I guess that's why I've still got a bit of a sentimental attachment. I still save flies if they fall in my drink or get caught in a spiders web... Cause I used to imagine I could hear them desperately screaming for help, and it didn't matter the spider might be hungry... It felt wrong to do nothing

Why was superman the size of a spider?...god damn it, John peters is at it again!

Actually I think Peters would be pretty appauled...

He wanted a giant spider... GIANT!

 

[Hyde]

Babies came out of a woman's ass

The TV was a window and what was on it had really happened/was happening.

That is how I convinced myself for years that Spider-Man and Teletubbies were real..

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Would it ruin the obscurity if I understood your joke?

not at all lol.

Actually I think Peters would be pretty appauled...

He wanted a giant spider... GIANT!

Well, it IS the most dangerous animal in the animal kingdom ya know...

 

[SpiderCool]

Well, it IS the most dangerous animal in the animal kingdom ya know...

What about the bee?

 

[DarkSovereignty]

The bee is the smallest of small potatoes.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Aren't misquitos the biggest killers (due to spreading malaria and such)?

 

[mrvlknight21]

Well, it IS the most dangerous animal in the animal kingdom ya know...

Nice.

 

[Still Wynning]

As a young kid, I thought magic was actually real after seeing a small magic show at my cousin's birthday party, so I asked for a magic set for Christmas. I remember being real excited when I opened that box, held the plastic wand in my hand for the first time and tried casting spells.

Needless to say, I was disappointed for days.

 

[Godzilla2000]

When I was very, very young I was seriously convinced as a kid that 70's Mechagodzilla was going to come down and trash the town I live in.

 

[Bat-Mite]

Don't laugh but I thought babies came from a woman's ass...

I also believed this. But before that, I believed that the baby exploded out of her stomach like in Alien. Eventually, the two beliefs merged and I believed that the baby exploded out of her ass.

Anyway, when I was little, a neighbor kid told me that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre really happened and that Leatherface lives in a nearby park, in a bunker deep in the woods, and that at night he comes out and drags people down there with him. I had never seen the movie and didn't know who Leatherface was, but my mind ran wild all the same, and I was terrified of that park for years!

Now this is really silly, but some of you will remember the infamous Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz. There's a story in there about this girl who had a sore on her face from a spider bite, and when she got into the shower, hundreds of baby spiders went crawling out of the sore because the spider had laid its eggs there. I thought this story was true. I don't know where I got the idea, but none of the other stories bothered me as much as that one because I thought it would happen to me. And what's worse, I believed this into my early teens, so the first few pimples that I got were very traumatizing to me because I thought spiders were going to come crawling out at any second.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Babies came out of a woman's ass

I believe that's actually a common one, at least among boys.

Finding out where they really come out of isn't much less disturbing.

 

[the last son]

I could become something