Dumb things you believed as a kid

What's something really weird you believed as a kid?

Someone told me the F word was frappe, so I never bought one after that xD

My parent's never told me anything really outlandish as a kid so I had nothing to believe, really. Though I did used to think that hamsters laid eggs

I used to hear Americans talking about temperatures in Fahrenheit and thinking of the numbers as though they were Celsius. As a result, for quite awhile I used to think that when it reached 100?F in the US that lakes and rivers were boiling over and people were literally melting away, Because, you know, 100?C is the boiling point of water. Don't ask me why I knew that but not that Fahrenheit was a thing. xDD

that the moon followed me in the car while it moved

being an adult is better than being a kid

that shadows were going to eat me

Weak laughter while scratches back of head.
Oh the answers I could put, but I'll just stick with a few.

1) Believed that eating leaves off of random trees was good for you (and did it for a time)
2) Was tricked into thinking that people eat lizards by letting them crawl down their throats.
3) Thought shining a flashlight into my eyes at night was a good thing
4) Didn't want my hair cut cause I thought I was killing them.
5) Said I'd love my stuffed animals forever (though Dolphy has persisted and aged well)

Believed all the dumb stuff my older brother told me, some examples:
- The weird noise at night was a space saucer full of vampires descending in the forest (it was the heater)
- Ghosts entered the room by the small holes in the ceiling (they were small nail holes because we would hang decoration from the ceiling, like plants)
- I had to close the closet door and the curtains before going to sleep because otherwise werewolves would enter the room
- Missingno was a sentient entity and if I forgot to close the game properly it would come out of the Gameboy and attack me

...I love my brother :|

swallowing chewing gum would mean it would wrap around your heart

Kikaito plush said:

that shadows were going to eat me

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Oh, they will. just you wait... :O

Thanks to my dad's lack of details during the sex talk, for a while I thought the female parts looked just like a belly button. :/

After watching a documentary on bigfoot with my friend when we were kids, we thought it was going to get us. (We didn't live anywhere near the woods, we lived in a suburb) XD

That people would become more mature and actually handle situations without being petty.

tbf I believed in santa until I was 12.

"You're only allowed to write in cursive in high school."

Seriously, I was told that way back in third or fourth grade! But, when high school eventually came, that "rule" was hardly enforced, except for some very serious assignments such as research papers (which could also be typed out on the computer, as I did with my research papers, as well as many other writing assignments since at least 7th Grade).

For some reason I thought that all cats were female and all dogs were male.
I also believed that honey would taste similar to some very specific mango and orange flavored soup since the texture and color of the honey in Winnie the Pooh somehow reminded me of fruit soup.

did y'alls parents tell u that it's illegal to have the light in the car on or the cops will pull u over bc i'm 25 and have known since i was 18 that it's legal to do that and i still won't turn my light on in the car at night shit i ain't riskin it

i was told
the ice cream van played music
when out of ice cream

>:(

Otter Mii-kun said:

"You're only allowed to write in cursive in high school."

Seriously, I was told that way back in third or fourth grade! But, when high school eventually came, that "rule" was hardly enforced, except for some very serious assignments such as research papers (which could also be typed out on the computer, as I did with my research papers, as well as many other writing assignments since at least 7th Grade).

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This is very true. Ive forgotten cursive with the exception of writing my name in cursive, but I've tried just for fun to write in cursive and i think with a little bit of practice I could pick it up again. but who cares?

I was told that if you kissed a girl with braces if you had braces then the braces would get stuck together and you would have to go to the dentist to get the braces removed, otherwise you would be stuck together forever.

hoshiko said:

that the moon followed me in the car while it moved

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My mom told me the moon follows good children

Sydian said:

did y'alls parents tell u that it's illegal to have the light in the car on or the cops will pull u over bc i'm 25 and have known since i was 18 that it's legal to do that and i still won't turn my light on in the car at night **** i ain't riskin it

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OH MY GOODNESS im late but YES
idk why they tell me that, I hurt my eyes trying to read in the dark :(