Hey Pandas, What Is One Thing You Believed As A Kid That Turned Out To Be Completely And Totally False? (Closed)

That quicksand, lava, and the Bermuda Triangle were going to be MUCH larger problems in real life.

I thought people 'grew up' and bullying would be a thing of the past because adults are respectable, kind, and thoughtful. Boy was I fooled!

i once belived usa was smart now i dont

I was born in Hawaii, and I would always travel to North Carolina.But i was a wee little lad and i fell asleep before we got to the airport. By the time i woke up, we were in north Carolina. Therefore i thought that on the other side of the mountain range that separates the island, was North Carolina. FLAWLESS LOGIC.

I believed that I could turn myself straight and have a normal life. I tried. I couldn't.

Oh also that little mice people pulled open "automatic" doors when people got near, and I would always say hi and thank you to the little mice people when I walked through an automatic door

My Mother was one of the great "liars" of all time and her son was gullible enough to believe everything she said. What she said was never malicious, just amusing.

My Mother said that Bellsnickle came on New Year's and for those children who misbehaved between Christmas and New Year's, he would take back all of the toys Santa brought. Bellsnickle, who has various examples in European history, is a man who is covered with chains (think Jacob Marley) and who cannot see below the level of his nose. So, if you hid your Christmas loot under say a table or your bed, he could not see it to take it.

This served two wonderful things for my Mother and Father. First, it assured 7 additional days of good behavior after Christmas; and Second, it was very amusing for my parents to watch me dutifully hiding my toys under beds and tables (ya know, just to be sure if my behavior didn't meet standards) on New Year's Eve.

Mom died in 1998 and I will miss her for the rest of my life.

I was the youngest child (and the only girl) and would be left out of certain activities because I was too young. My parents would tell me, "when you are their age, you can do (whatever - it was usually something like go to the river or ride bikes on the road, or drive the tractor - stuff a four or five year old would not be allowed to do)." Thus, I believed wholeheartedly that I would catch up with my brothers' age, like I would get older and they wouldn't until we all got to be about 9 and then we would age together.

You could see the Earth change spin speed by how fast the clouds went by.

Two things. God. And that Republicans cared about the average person and wanted them to succeed.

Life is fair, it isn't. It's swings and roundabouts. Bad stuff is going to happen to you, but also good stuff. Roll with the punches.

I believed in magic. Sorry guys, magic doesn't exist.

I thought that royals don't poop/pee. I still don't know the real answer though :D

That my parents would support my coming out of the closet, it took a lot of time to convince myself they would be okay that I was bi. They weren't, so I packed my things shortly after. One of the worst times in my life.

My older brothers told me that the tall smoke towers attached to our local hospital were where the bodies were dropped down for cremation. Didn't realize they were pulling my leg until my grandfather passed and I freaked out because he didn't like heights and now he'd be dropped in that very tall tower. My parents explained....brothers are a**holes.

i thought bill nye was a russian spy. lol

That all cats were girls and all dogs were boys. I don't know why I believed that, my parents raised German Shepherds for g*ds sake.

SANTA

I thought I could take part in well every profession in the world😖

I totally thought that when the US bought Alaska, Russia cut it off from their land and sent it across the ocean where the United States glued it onto the side of Canada (and that it wasn't glued onto the US because we were too poor to pay for such long distance shipping).

That when you left your tooth in a glass of water, it would magically transform into a magnificent dress - a’la Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind. Believed it so hard I had dreams about the different dresses.