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

At the age of 9 I was sent to a Sanatorium for 6 months....It will be fun,my mother said,you will get to eat all the smoked Salmon you`ll want......reality?! margerine on stale bread and pudding so dry your spoon would bend trying to get to the softer centre...The saving grace...my grandparents would visit and take me out for tea and cake..

I think as soon as you fall asleep it’s morning (btw I’m a kid)

Ah see I thought that I was the only one that took shits. All you people don’t take shits. Until I read Everybody Poops

I believed that airplanes could drop a large crane and would pick up the house. so whenever i was outside and heard an airplane overhead i would run and hold on to the house so the plane wouldn't take it.

That woman pee out of their vaginas

When I was a kid I used to see the erectile dysfunction commercials on TV and always had thought "Male Enhancement" was something that gave men extra powers to be stronger, faster or smarter

That I actually had a permanent record.

Those hammer looking things in fields, called oil derricks I think. They go up and down, sometimes in a circle even. We’d drive past them on vacation trips. When I was little, I was told that they made peanut butter. Made sense to me! I learned the truth in high school.

I thought sitting in front of a TV could damage my eyes

That the moon landings, the last of which was 4 years before my birth were ancient history.

My family stayed at a very old fashioned hotel with a lift so old that it had a list of historical events since the lift was installed on a plaque. I assumed that because the moon landings were being used to show that the lift was old that they must have happened ages ago...

that watching the in the dark is bad for your eyes and being too close to the screen is too. i guess my mom just really doesn’t like tv...

Thinking I was the only one who saw life through a first-person perspective. Honestly, that one still mesmerizes me now... I sometimes imagine what it'd be like to meet me from another person's perspective.

That if you ate a seed from a fruit, a tree would grow inside you! I was genuinely terrified of this happening.

easy...that I was going to hell for being gay.

Salt Water Taffy had caffeine in it lmao

When I was little I always thought the movie or show was playing in real time and I would get so confused sometimes when we would flip through channels and I would see another actor from another movie that was on. My little kid brain couldn’t comprehend how an actor could be in two movies at once. I was about maybe five or six when I learned that what I believed wasn’t true and everything was filmed prior.

1.I was totally sure that after Tonsillectomy you can eat a lot of ice cream like it is shown in plenty of cartoons and series. I realised the truth after the surgery at my 18yo.

2. My MIL convinced my husband that candy should be asked from the squirrel named Bubka that lived for some reason on the closet.

for me it was mostly typicall things your parents tell you like mine told me that my tongue turns blue when I lie, or my ears are red when I lie...Come to think of it lots of things were assoiciated with lying

My Dad had a computer that he got through his work, but refused to hook it up. I asked why and he said "Because I don't want hackers breaking into it and stealing my personal information." Now keep in mind that he A) did not have any internet going to the house and B) had not opened it and, therefore, had not put any personal financial information on it. He thought as soon as he plugged it in, hackers could see anything in his house.

I thought sex meant the man puts his penis on the woman’s vagina, sort of underneath the lips. I had no idea it went inside until I was well into my teens. This is what happens when you were born decades before free online porn.