Hey Pandas, What Is A Thing That Took You An Embarrassing Amount Of Time To Figure Out?

That just because it was your parent’s opinion it does not have to be your opinion

Ponies' tails.

Because a ponytail is on the back of the head, I thought a horse's mane was called a ponytail. I never once thought that they were called ponytails because, you know... THEY LOOK LIKE A PONIES' TAIL.
I owned 2 ponies and 13 Miniature donkeys for 8 years before I realised.
I had my personal eureka moment in front of my wife and when I explained what I'd worked out...
Well, now every time she ties her hair up she make a point of saying she's 'tying-up my mane'. She also says there's no point in me doing a coin toss because I 'can't tell the difference between heads and tails'.

Ted Bundy was NOT an actor who played Al Bundy on Married with Children. I used to think only until about a year or two ago that he was a renowned actor and after the show had ended, he became a serial killer. Thankfully, I never actually mentioned this to anybody until after I realized this on my own.

Those like, big weekend bags that you carry, that people call “Hold-all’s”.

100% serious, up until the age of 30 I was calling them “haul-dauls”. I had no idea what it meant, I just thought it was a random word like umbrella, which didn’t need to be descriptive.

My wider family lives a few hours away from us so growing up we had a lot of weekend trips to visit them; where we all had to pack our “haul-dauls”. I’m probably more concerned that it look my parents 30 years to notice I was saying it wrong if I’m honest!

That a slight turn in the eye is called an astigmatism. I thought for years people were saying they had a stigmatism in their eye. I'd obviously never seen it written down..... I have a degree in Biology 😂

I didn't understand how people were good at things. I would sit there and watch them be good at things and then just sulk about how im not good at things

Now I know you need to practice things to be good.
I never have the motivation to practice
Which is why I'm not good at anything

That should've clicked QUITE a while ago but it didn't until recently.

The "Why was six afraid of seven?" joke. I thought it was a maths joke and pretended to get it until I was 12.

The Far Side cartoon that had a man in bed with a note around his missing toe that read "Gone to Market". I never asked anyone what the joke was and one day it clicked and I lust Laughed out Loud at my office desk.

My family moved to a new state when I was in high school. The new neighborhood/development was very very large, with straight/grid pattern. Took us several months to realize the streets (which were named after trees) were in alphabetical order!

I thought fidelity meant Performance. As in a hi-fi stereo is hi performance. As a result I thought infidelity was being bad in bed.

It led to an embarrassing mixup when a friend told me she was leaving her husband over his infidelity. My first thought was he can't be that bad in bed given how many women he is sleeping with

I thought exercise was pronounced extra-size till about 11 years old

Untill a year ago when I was walking randomly on my neighborhood streets, I never though that the Winnie the Pooh 🦘 characters Kanga and baby Roo are the combination of word 'kangaroo'

I used to call butterflies , which we call titli in hindi , chitli . Soo , My maternal aunt , now calls me chitli all the time. Its so embarrassing

Efficiently removing the pit from an avocado with a swift strike from a knife.

First time I went to a coffee shop I was probably nine. I wanted to seem sophisticated so I walked up to the counter and ordered the most exotic sounding thing I saw on the menu. “Can I have a “cha-mom-i-lee” tea? Took the girl a few tries to realize I was asking for “chamomile”.

That the song from Annie was saying "It's a hard KNOCK life" instead of "It's a hard NOT life".

how a tv works

When I was twelve I realized orange juice was juice from an orange and we were not just calling it the color it was.

the differrence between a zucchini and a cucumber. i couldnt figure it out untill i was 14...

For a long time I thought Petra was in Turkey. Even now, this would be my first answer if I had to answer quickly. And I still have to look it up, I just can't remember that it's in Jordan. (Yes, I had to check before I wrote this.😁)