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

wait 20 minutes after eating to get in the pool 😂

Mostly stuff my mum and gran told us kids:
Sea foam is made because God was washing his clothes.
If you lie, hair will grow on the palm of your hands.
Clouds are made from factories that have chimneys.
If you go outside at 12 am or pm with your hair open (girls), the devil will catch you.
My gran was a firm believer in Old Wive's tales.

religion.

I believed that if i treat others the way i wanted to be treated, they will treat me well...ladies and gentlemen...that was all a lie.

That a monster lived under my bed and was going to grab my ankles and drag me under if I didn't get a running jump onto my bed (thanks a lot Tales From the Darkside).

I had a very firm belief that one day, say when I was 18 or 21 or 25... that I would BE an adult...........those birthday's came and when and I didn't suddenly BECOME this imagined adult. It was very disquieting because I believed this wholeheartedly!!! Now I know for sure adulthood is a myth. Oh well🥴

I always thought that the disney charcters were real. They are not real lol.

When I was about 3 or 4 I saw my hospital nursery picture and noticed that newborn me had almost no hair. Since only boys had very short hair back then, I thought I'd been born a boy and then turned into a girl as my hair grew.

It's illegal to drive at night with the car light on.

That there was some kind of "parent school" that adults went to before they could become a Mom & Dad so they would always knew what they were doing and have all the answers to any problem.

I used to think males could give birth.

People who died/killed in film's, died in real life. Not just the character

I thought Arizona gave you cancer. My dad came back from a golfing weekend there and went right to the hospital not feeling well. Had part of one lung removed. Small cell carcinoma. He died 8 months later. I was 7.

I was a child in the 50s. Because of cartoons, I believed islands floated around freely, unattached. And that turtles could crawl out of their shells like taking off a coat. Stupid cartoons.

Monsters lived under the bed so once you shut the light off, you could not let a foot dangle! It’s still terrifying even though I’m grown.

My stuffed animals could talk to each other when I left the room. Not a theory, I was certain of this. I would coach them before I left to enjoy themselves.

That dead relatives watched you. I was terrified to be naked alone because I thought dead people were floating and looking down at me.

What’s crazy is when you’re young, this feels legit! It’s not even conspiracy theories, it’s your truth. It’s the actual world you live in. No wonder we grow up scarred inside lol

My parents had many right-wing conservative religious discussions and debates....one thing that would be talked about regularly for some reason was euthanasia.... they never told me what it was and I heard Y
"Youth in Asia" and thankfully it didn't turn into some weird prejudice.....however.... I did spend quite a but of time trying to figure out why my parents would be so riled up about the youth in Asia...couldn't figure out what they'd done!

if I eat a watermelon seed it'll grow in my stomach. age old myth

I was a child in the 50s. Because of cartoons, I believed islands floated freely in the water, unattached. And turtles could just crawl out of their shells, like taking off a coat. Stupid cartoons.

When I was younger, 6ish, I thought the WORLD went to bed at 8:00pm and EVERYTHING was closed.

When my dad didn’t want me to get in bed with my mom and him he would say I take my head off when I go to bed. He said he you can take your head off too when you get older. So I would go to my room and think of how my head would look on my nightstand . When I asked him as an adult about this he said it kept your mind off the monsters under your bed. I still would creep in their room while they were sleeping and if I didn’t see my dads head on his side table I would wake him up. He said he forgot to take off his head. Strange people lol