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

My grandpa used to tell me if you got out of bed to use the bathroom at night and when you flushed the toilet it woke up the Toilet Monster who may or may not kill you as you tried to run back to bed. When I got older I realized this wasn't true. What is true is if you get up at night to use the toilet at night it means you can't drink 5 cups of coffee after dinner

I still stubbornly believe in dragons.

No one is rude in this world it’s happy jolly :D oh wait then comes racism sexist people homophobic people also I’m mixed and Hispanic how lovely right? Oh and wait it gets better! I’m a tomboy and people have asked me why am I not wearing a dress before:> I’m also a person who plays video games WHAT A LOVELY WORLD we live in right? :3

My mom is a nurse and she used to take me to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, I would take my headphones and my mini DVD player and watch Bambi or Dumbo or something like that. I thought she was doing research on alcoholics because she would have a notepad and take notes. They had the best cookies at these meetings, lmao. I came to find out this year, I am 17 that my mother used to be an alcoholic. I started putting pieces together, all her friends had a medallion coin thingy in their car which was the AA symbol. I found AA books in the house. It was a complete shock for me, all my mom's friends and her past boyfriend were people she had met in AA

When I was like 5, I always thought that when you played a record, all the "lines" (grooves) would go under the label and when they were all gone you'd have to buy a new record. So I'd spin the turntable backwards and watch all of the "lines" come back thus extending the life of the record and not having to buy a new one. Kid anti-corporate conspiracy genius at work, eh? LOL (I have now, at 62, recorded and produced several albums myself!) Of course there is only one spiral "groove" to a record and it was just the run-out but I did discover in my teens that the fastest way to have to buy a new copy was to let your younger sister borrow it.

I used to believe that my stuffed animals would protect me from nightmares and that if you’re under a blanket you’re safe from anything..

That I was mentally okay :D

I am a child of the 80s and I loved the Care Bears and My Little Pony cartoons. When I was 6 my mother brother and I went on what was my first trip on a plane. I was told by my teacher that one of nicest things about flying was being above the clouds. Knowing that the Care Bears and the My Little ponies lived in the sky in the cartoons I went home and asked my brother who had been in a plane before, if that were true. He said yes it was and when we go up in the plane I would see them playing with each other. I was so disappointed when we did get above the clouds and they were of course not there. My brother though, thought it was hilarious.

For some context, my mom moved around a lot in the states as a kid, ultimately finishing school in Michigan before coming to North Carolina, met my dad and had me. For the longest time I knew my mom just came from the North, had a different accent and cooked her green beans weird. I always believed she was from Michigan- born and raised.
Que to a stormy night and my family plays the Oregon Trail for the first time. Person born closest to Oregon goes first. My family was born in North Carolina, and I said mom goes first she was born in Michigan.
"...No I wasn't. I was born in Missouri."
I'm still not over it.

When I was like 4 I thought that the rain bow was red yellow orange green purple pink

I used to believe that everything was ok. That everyone was treated equal. That all people are good. That I am mentally stable.

Believed that everybody was respected. LOL nope.

I believed myself to be adopted, alien kidnapped or left in my "parent's" basket at the grocery store. Regrettably, all those scenarios were wrong. I actually shared the same DNA with some righteously crazy folks.

i still (extremely stubbornly) believe in unicorns

I used to think that if you're losing your hair, that means you have cancer........ i had a friend that had cancer and lost all of his hair, but i was in second-third grade at the time, so i didn't know about chemotherapy yet

Since adults always sat across from me, I always thought that when you were an adult your right and left hands automatically switched. In my culture we wear a bangle on our right hands, so it was easy for me to distinguish the right hand. I was shocked when I found out it stayed the same lol

I was completely convinced that the eggs I broke open to make an omelette would have cracked open with chicks had I given them a chance to grow.

2 words. Tooth. Fairy.

I used to think that at night, when the lights are off, all the demons and monsters would come out of the mirror and wander. If they knew you saw them, they would take over your body or something. I had my eyes closed every night, even if I couldn't sleep. I still have spectrophobia.

That the Bermuda Triangle was a big deal