Childish misconceptions. Options

[Mistress Bags]

Every kid growing up has naive, childish fancies to what life is really about. Kids are full of innocent misconceptions, narrow perspectives.

What were yours as a kid?



Mine:
As a toddler, I was pretty sure that my toys had feelings.
Adults had a flawless, god-like status, and always intimidated me.
I thought all women were mommies, no questions asked (yay, society for making me think that!).
I wanted to be an artist when I grew up, and didn't understand my parents when they told me it was near impossible.
I also thought as a last resort, I would be a president when I grew up, hahaha.
I didn't know what an air conditioner was, even though we always had one. When my mom shouted the typical, "Close the door-- we're not paying to keep the outside cold!" I never understood.
All parents existed for was to make your life full of pain. A result of being physically abused, I'm afraid.

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

The only thing I can remember at this moment is that shoes can go on either foot.
I thought that until I was like 6! Seriously!
I thought shoes were more comfortable the other way around.

[Mistress Bags]

I thought that computers were only meant to play Solitaire on. That's all I ever saw ours used for, so *shrug*.

[starlette]

As a kid I thougth you had to be born famous. Like I didn't know your average person could work hard and get on the radio. I just thought the people just...did it. Boy when I found out that wasn't the case I was like well thats what I'm gonna do.

I also used to think that actors were the actual character. Like Mary Poppins was Mary Poppins in real life, not Julie Andrews. So I would get confused when I watched the Sound of music cuz my mom would say see her? thats Mary Poppins. very confusing.

I also thought that China was from China. Adn it was a chinese thing. And I never got why we ate out of it.

And I used to think when people said foggy they were saying it was froggy outside. And I could never find the damn frogs

Same thing with being hoarse. I never saw a horse either.

A sad one is when I was really young I used to think all movie with real people in them (a la not cartoons) were bad like pronography. Thanks to having a mom who was a stripper who had a habit of being home disgusting dirty jerks home every night. Here night 'career' also led to me having an irrational fear of torms...because I was left at home all the time and was caught in a tornado. I would actually put on mary poppins (the only movie other than sound of music and willy wonka with real people i watched til I turned like..10) and wear headphones so i wouldnt hear the storm or see the weather warning on tv. I'm still scared to death of storms too.

wow theres a lot of crap I discovered. I'll never forget when I figured out the clitoris wasnt a broken nerve and it was actually supposed to feel like that. HAHA! I used to think I was severly broken hahahaha.

Enough embarassing crap :)

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

Ooh, when I was like 5, we had this $2,000 computer (it was a good computer back then..) and I used to play Mahjong on it ALL DAY. Haha, yeah.
Good times

[Mistress Bags]

I also used to think that actors were the actual character. Like Mary Poppins was Mary Poppins in real life, not Julie Andrews. So I would get confused when I watched the Sound of music cuz my mom would say see her? thats Mary Poppins. very confusing.

I thought that, too!


Haha, I thought that sex meant a guy and girl had to hug and kiss. That's all I saw in the movies before my mom fast fowarded it, so for the longest time, I truly though that was how babies were made.

[Mr. Slowjamz]

^ heyy thats funny there was a topic on that . but when i was little i had many misconceptions about life . i lived in a fantasy world i swear....more then most kids until 16 ...whats worst before is i kept on denying the truth , which even more difficult for me and my family members to go by .


- what starlette said i used to believe that famous people were famous because they were talented ....haha now i know it takes more then just talent .

- i thought my parents wanted me to get the best ...because im good

- i thought everyone in school including high-school were jackasses . whene apparenty are not

- i thought everyone was against me ....EVERY SINGLE person surrounding me . talking behind my back

- i used to always believe that the older sibling was to take care of the younger one i was was wrong .

- i used to think that having an expensive house made me feel rich ....which i hardly think so as of right now

- i used to think to get friends you would just have to entertain them ...and theyll come up to you and just start being your buddy ....i was too conceited my talent took me over.

- i always thought people knew what i was thinking when obviously no one really knew .

- i used to think everyone loved each other ....where there were no cultural differences put aside ....and i always thought everyone in school had pusit (fried squid) and rice for breakfeast everyone in school thought i was sick .

- i thought english was easy to understand and communicate ...it really isnt ...just look at my grammar as of right now . lol.

there are alot more

[Jeng]

i used to think clouds were CLOWNS
on halloween, when i saw a witch, i thought it was real
and i cant think of anymore

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

Haha, I thought that sex meant a guy and girl had to hug and kiss. That's all I saw in the movies before my mom fast fowarded it, so for the longest time, I truly though that was how babies were made.

When I was little, my mom told me that she bought me at the store for $5. I was like " Really?" I even told my friends and teachers

[*This Confession*]

How when you got older you would tell your parents you were going to be the first woman president.

Toys had feelings, they could even talk!
Just no one else could hear them

Looks like someone thought the same, but yes all characters in movies I thought were really real, and not just some actor or something. I remember the day I actually found that out, it was probably my best blonde moment yet.

[juliar]

Everything had feelings. Paper bags, cups, sheets of paper. And throwing them out hurt their feelings.

[goodcharlotte]

I also thought my sister would be my first girlfriend. We were like 5.

[priyas]

i thought my dog could understand english.

[ghjgfkgfk]

somebody told me that my chicken nuggets had feelings and they cried when i ate them.
i still feel bad about eating chicken nuggtes

[Simba]

I thought Santa Claus was trying to rob my house when the alarm went off on Christmas Eve.

[goodcharlotte]

I thought Santa Claus was trying to rob my house when the alarm went off on Christmas Eve.

[Simba]

And from that day forward I thought Santa Claus was really KC.

Sike.

[Socialite]

i don't care what ya'll say
there is a monster underneath my bed... and to this day it eats my flip flops

i kid you not

[ParanoidAndroid]

When I was a kid I was really attached to my mother. I thought she would never die and stay 38 even after she passed her 40's (she's 50 now). Then when I was 7 my brother told me that mom will die once she turns 50. I was so scared for 2 weeks until my mom was wondering why I was being unusually REALLY nice to her.

When I was 8 I think, I thought fireworks were made of pixie dust.

I thought if I drank sea water and ate a lot of fish I can be a mermaid (then a day later my mom told me that it was impossible)

I thought rain meant God crying and sunshine meant God is happy. (I think this was a common misconception for kids who were raised religiously)

I forgot what age this was but I remember thinking that God put a lot of cash under my parents' pillows during their sleep for being such good Christians

I also thought that the sun was actually really small (the size of what it looks like from earth, not a gigantic star).

[x_curse_of_the_c...]

i don't care what ya'll say
there is a monster underneath my bed... and to this day it eats my flip flops

i kid you not

mine eats my socks!

[_sarcastic_]

when i was young i thought getting pregnant was just by kissing

[goodcharlotte]

You know how sometimes your socks go down in your shoes and then they are half way off your feet. I used to think that my shoes were alive and trying to eat my feet but my socks were some sort of force field that protected my feet.

[*Shinji_Mimura*]

I thought plastic screens made the computer monitor turn colored.
I thought street vendors lived in their stalls.
I thought kissing = sex.

[goodcharlotte]

I thought kissing = sex.

Same.

[*chaneun*]

when i shared a room with my grandmother, i slept in a bed and she slept in another bed next to mine, but across the room. i would turn the other way when i slept thinking that the living dummy from goosebumps was under her bed staring at me.

[jennyjenny]

I thought masturbation was peeing in the shower and that stuffed animals could grow hair after you cut it.

[goodcharlotte]

stuffed animals could grow hair after you cut it.

Same. I cut off my stuffed Ernie's hair and my mom got me a new one after she saw what I did so when I went to go play with him all his hair was back.

[monxcheri]

i thought that people could only see in black && white back when they had black && white television.

[mocassinsx29]

I thought sex was being naked with someone under the blanket.

I thought all women were programmed to have babies when they hit a certain age. I was scared because I heard having babies hurt like hell. (and now I know they do.. not that I've had one. o_o)

I thought there was a little man in my fridge who turned on/off the light. I tried opening the fridge really fast over and over again to try and catch him, but he was faster than me.

I thought being fat or skinny was SOLELY based on your genes. I didn't know food/exercise also played a big factor. ;)

I didn't know that there were people richer than me and poorer than me. I thought everyone was the same.

[*My Cinderella.*]

Boys had cooties.
I wanted to grow up.
I thought the stork delivered babies.
I talked to my toys.
I had an imaginary dog named Skip.
I liked to play tea party.
Watching the people on tv in black and white made me think that everything was actually in those two colors back then.

[*xcaitlinx*]

the only thing i can remember right now is how i used to think that when you wanted to have a baby, you would go to a hospital and pick one out in the nursery or something...hah.

[datass]

I used to think people in the TV were small people who lived in a box.

[AngryBaby]

i used to think crack and weed were the same thing. man was i a silly baby.

[soEXCLUSIVE]

Whenever there was wind, there was a tornado. Thunder was God bowling.

I was also really skeptical of people 'cause I thought everybody saw the world differently (blame t.v.). So I would stare at people and wonder if they looked at me and saw a big green monster on an alien planet.

[xforgottenlove]

I thought kissing = sex.

haha me too. also, i thought that babies were born by somehow going through the stomach without tearing it o_O

[scottypottyboi]

mine were that my mommy and daddy will never grow old and ill stay young and they will buy me mcdonalds everyday....12 years later i grow my parents have wrinkles and i barely eat -_- but im still happy

[goodcharlotte]

I thought when it rained that God was crying and when it was thundering that he was jumping.

[gelionie]

I remember cutting all of my doll's hair, thinking it would grow back.
She went bald afterwards. >_>

[kimmytree]

- I was DETERMINED to grow up and be an Artist.
- I was always afraid to pick flowers, because I didnt want to hurt them.
- I thought everything had feelings. The couch, the floor, everything.
- I thought people lived forever... and that no one that I loved could ever die.
- That I was 10x smarter than ANY other kid my age.
- And that people (other than my parents) wouldnt like me if I didnt behave perfectly, or did the slightest thing wrong.

[starlette]

this is probably one of the most endearing threads we have at cB. It makes me feel....well...tainted lol.

I remember thinking that Barbie was a real person and people liked her so much they decided to make little ones so everyone could take her home.

And everything in the old days was black and white.

And that everyone in the west wore cowboys boots and hats and tight jeans (like most people think of texas -_-)

and if you closed your eyes people couldn't see you. kinda like if you cant see the camera the camera cant see you..except in this case they can.

I couldn't smile and keep my eyes open at the same time.

I also thought cats really had nine lives. Like kill it and it wakes up...like Thacary Binks on Hocus Pocus.

I used to think mascara was evil. that if you wore it your eyelashes would fall off. my mom told me as a kid NEVER to wear it (because I didnt need it lol) but i thought it was cuz it was evil.

I used to think that crayons were the greatest invention. I still kinda think crayons are the greatest invention. second only to photoshop...the computer crayon :)

I used to think Molly McButter was snack food. I would climb up on the counters and sneak fingerfuls...ew....

[goodcharlotte]

I remember having the glasses like Julian. I thought that if I wore them that no one could see me unless they put glasses on themselves.

[datass]

I remember cutting all of my doll's hair, thinking it would grow back.
She went bald afterwards. >_>

That's exactly what I did to my barbie. I got so angry after a few months because her hair was still short.

[Mr. Slowjamz]

i thought i could communicate with woodlice .

[smoke]

I thought that thunder was Angels bowling in the sky.

[sadolakced acid]

i'm deprived.

i never really thought about sex. then i found an encyclopedia and read it.

i thought... errr...

umm...

gosh darn it. i never thought anything cute.

well, i'll just have to tell you guys some stories.

okay, so it was like, kindergarten. i would go afterschool to a sort of daycare thing since my mom was getting her degree. So i was playing with this kid, and we had these big block legos.
anyways, i found this block that had a word on it. I coulnd't read, so i asked the kid, who i didn't know, if he could read.

he gave me a resounding "yes", so i asked him what the word was. he said it was "police". So i was like, cool. i think i'll build a police train. and so i built a train with that block that said "police" on the front. the kid left earlier than me. Finally my mom came to pick me up and asked what i had built.

i replied, of course, that it was a police train. strangely enough, she asked me "why does it say 'stop' on the front?"

evil kid lied to me! i couldn't believe it!

OH.

here's one. i believed that if i left my clothes on the floor at night, little people would come out of the dark and play in them. Yea. my dad told me that one. Like, 3 years ago, i realized he was talking about bugs.