Hey Pandas, What Is The Craziest Thing You Thought Or Believed As A Kid? (Closed)

I grew up in a very small town where everyone knew each other. People would often stop and ask our family how my (maternal) grandfather was doing and, "If you see him, tell him I said hi" sort of thing. This would happen almost daily. Sometimes they would say it to me directly. Thus, I grew up believing that my grandfather was one of the most famous people in the world and possibly the President of the World. I didn't realize until I was about 12 that I lived in a small town and my grandfather was not famous, but was a really nice guy and people just liked him because he was good to work for.

I thought the Easter bunny, theTooth Fairy, and Santa Claus all knew each other.

Because of the FBI warning at the beginning of VHS movies, I thought a person would go to jail if they spoiled the movie for someone else.

When I was younger, my friend had a concrete square with all of her family's handprints. When we were younger, we pretended they were spy levels. The larger our hands got, the higher rank we were.

I thought that every woman will automatically get a baby and that you have to have surgery to get them removed.

When I was very little in my toddler years I always thought that every single state had a wall/gate around it also when ever you were entering or leaving a state you had to go through gates

I really thought old photos in black and white, meant the world was in black and white! Yes, I know this is ridiculous but 5 yr old me is still adamant!

It may not be politically correct in today's climate, but when I was a wee nipper, I used to believe that if I had a suntan then I'd turn into a black man

I legitimately thought that those hay bales wrapped in white plastic were giant marshmallows and that the farmers would cut them up to make the normal sized marshmallows.

When I was little, I always had my feet covered by my blankets or have socks on when I am trying to go to sleep because I thought that there was some crazy foot-stealer that would take my feet during the night and I would wake up with stumps. No clue where I got this from.

When I was little I thought that your teeth turned black at night if you didn’t brush them before bed

That Santa was real. I regret telling that to Mom, because I started getting less gifts once she knew that I didn't believe.

That the tiles in a bathroom with the right touch-code, could send you to whatever planet you want. That I was a vampire ( a couple of my canines are really pointy). Thought that getting a period was a huge girl-spy mystery till I, you know, got it, and was SEVERELY disappointed. Hogwarts was just a cover - that there was a magic school, but not to disappoint non-magical kids, Hogwarts was formed. And a lot more "conspiracy" theories. Conclusion: I made up a LOT of stuff when I was younger.

There isn’t a dome over Michigan giving us bad weather. Moles aren’t giant furry leeches that attach themselves to your skin and make you look ugly. And no, chocolate milk does not come from black ladies.

Remember that scene in ATLA where Zuko and Iroh cut off their ponytails and float them down the river..? So...over the years I forgot the context of it...And thought everyone in china cut off their ponytails when they left the country. I was a dumb, dumb child...

La llorona...

And now I look back at those times and think:

"Why would some dead girl break into strangers homes to wash their dishes and cry?"

Similar to some of the baby things on here, I knew both a guy and a girl had to work together to make a child but I thought when they kissed something transferred and traveled down my moms body, so I was always so confused when my parents would kiss and I never got new baby siblings.

when I was 6 years old in the early 80's I was going to visit relatives overseas. I hadn't been on a plane since I was a baby so I didn't remember what it was like. At the time I was a big fan of the Care Bears and My Little Pony. As the characters of these cartoons lived in the sky and my older brother had me convinced that when I went above the clouds I would see them running over the clouds and playing with each other. I stupidly believed him and told all my friends what I would be seeing. Of course that didn't happen. There were no Care Bears and no My Little Pony dancing around the clouds when I got up there. I was devastated. My sadistic brother thought it was hilarious.

I believed my mother had eyes in the back of her head!
She told us that she sees it all! We’d comb or brush her hair and part it in the back to check, and she’d just say, they only open if we are not behaving!

When I was little, I thought that fainting would be a much greater problem than it actually was.