Hey Pandas, What Did You Grossly Misunderstand As A Child?

small people lived in the television. If I watched a repeat I'd beg mum to call them to warn them if something bad happened 'last' time, so it wouldt happen again.
*not explained well. I know

When I was younger I thought women could just create a baby whenever they wanted. Like yeah there’s sex, I knew about that. But I literally thought that another option we had was to just make it ourselves. For example, a woman would just one day think ‘oh, I want a baby’ then her body would make one at will. Ahahah, I wish it was that easy XD

That the movie "The Wizard of Oz" was not completely filmed in black and white and as we only had a black and white TV, we didn't know any better.

Years later when we watch the film again on a colour TV, my brothers and I were surprised to see the land of Oz in glorious techno-colour! Our mother knew but left it to us to discover.

Shocking!

How fun it is to go to your mailbox and get mail. I didn't understand it would be full of bills and not cards with $5 checks in them.

The Thanksgiving was always on Thursday the 26th.

When I was 10, my brother and I were sent to stay with an aunt & uncle on their farm for a week when my mom had surgery.

My cousin had a Little League baseball game one evening, so we were taken to watch. I was not interested, so went over to the decrepit playground where I proceeded to be even more bored.

After a while, I saw my uncle heading past me to the cornfield. I ran over to him to ask where he was going.

He said "to see a man about a horse". My mind went farmer + horse = maybe riding? So I said "can I come with you?". He stumbled and said "no, not this time".

It didn't occur to me until a few minutes later that he was going to pee in the cornfield. And I'd just asked if I could go with him.

But I did get sent to stay with their eldest daughter at her in-laws place for the rest of the week.

I thought being gay ment you were really old. When my aunt said she was gay I told her she wasn't that old.

My parents used to tell me kids should stay in the car when filling up oil and something about gas being flammable so I thought that if a child steps out of the car on a gas station, it would go up in flames. It was foolproof to my 6 year old brain

Thankfully I've moved past this buuuuuuut, when I was littler, I thought that the world consisted of only straight people because that was what I saw. I never saw a gay couple out in public. When I saw a couple episodes of a disney wedding show, one had a gay couple and another had a lesbian couple I did not understand at all. Look me being gay af now.