Hey Pandas, What Is The Craziest Thing You Thought Or Believed As A Kid? (Closed)

Up until the age of six, I thought that royalty didn't go to the toilet, because uh, they were royal.

I thought that all adults could do whatever they wanted (watch TV all night, eat ice cream, had all the money) and that since I had a WONDERFUL family life as a kid that when I grew up my life would be just like my parents and my own loving family. HAH!

When I was little, we used to walk to the market through these narrow country lanes. In the middle of one of these lanes was 2 little houses covered by overgrown trees. My nan told me that Mickey mouse and Donald duck lived there. And I absolutely believed it. Every time we would walk passed, I would stand on my tippy toes trying to see them through the windows. As I grew up, we didn't walk passed as often. Until I was walking passed there by myself as a teenager one day, looked at the houses and burst out laughing. My Nan is no longer with us but the memory of her silly stories always makes me smile.

Not myself, but my younger sister believed that if you wake up in the middle of the night to use the restroom and looked in the mirror, your "evil twin" would climb out, and live your life, but do everything bad (i.e. won't eat vegetables, won't do homework, etc.). She still shuts her eyes when she passes a mirror at night 😁

I thought that there was a secret door in my school's bathroom and if you touch the tiles correctly it would reveal a secret doo ha ha me 😋 i am 16 now thought that since like when i was in 3rd grade

i always thought when y cast got sighned it would sink into my skin

I thought there were only 2 countries in the world: American and Cuba. I guess Cuba must have been in the news a lot when I was little? (I'm 44 now).

When I was about 4yo our tv broke (it was the bulky old type, google "orion tv 1990" to get an idea)
Well, the repairman came home to fix it and at some point - I don't know where he found it - he gave me a little plastic figurine that was milky white and looked like a boy. So I was convinced that this figurine was sitting inside the tv and was broadcasting whatever we saw. my parents mostly watched the news so I thought it was the guy saying the news. I even asked the repairman how the tv will work if he doesn't put it back 😂😂

I thought that everyone else was just mean because whenever we did group scavenger hunts for vocabulary words I read the whole word in like a second and everyone else had to do it letter by letter, but I didn't believe them and told the teacher and then got mad when she said they weren't lying, same with my parents and everyone else. I'm still not sure if this story means I'm smart or not.

When I was about 4 or 5 years old, my mom's best friend used to come over together with her husband. She always called him darling. So did I because I thought that was his name.

Being Catholic. What a load of silliness

I thought that birds would attack people and I was scared of birds until I was like 8.

You know when you keep open the refrigerator for too long, it starts beeping telling you to close it? Well, I believed that the police would actually come and arrest me if the fridge started beeping. I believed that for over five years.

When I was very small, I thought that when a tv station advertised a program but didn't give the date and time it was on another station. You had to find when and where on your own. No idea why I thought this.

When I was little, we lived in a place with lots of earthquakes. The only ones I experienced were at night, so I thought it was just my sister shaking the bunk bed. It would usually stop by the time I said stop. And so when I found out it wasn’t her, I thought I could control earth itself.

During the summer when I was 5, the 17-year cicadas came out. They were everywhere. One day I saw the empty pupal husk of one clinging to a telephone pole, so I decided that the cicadas came out of the gouge marks that you see in the poles. This seemed so logical to me that it became part of my world view until one day, when I was about 20 or so (!!) I actually saw a lineman climbing a pole, and realized that the gouge marks were from the cleat things on his boots. So I guess what I believed wasn't as crazy as the amount of time it took me to figure out the truth.

That my mom had eyes in the back of her head! Believed that u til I was about 13! She always knew everything we did! The mom grapevine is real and alive !

When I was small, I heard a sort of tinkling one night (it was from a movie my mum was watching next door) and I thought it was a unicorn. Every night until I was seven I would stay up as late as I possibly could to see if I could catch the unicorn. I was a dumb child.

I believed that pregnant women had swallowed a watermelon seed.

My friend when she was very little used to think that our bodies were hollow. When we drink our insides fill up slowly, and when the levels reach the groin area we need to pee. So when she felt the urge she would run to her mommy and ask her to quickly make a tea for her because she would need to "top up" her levels so they reach the proper level and finally she would be able to pee. She'd do her little desperate dance at the brink of peeing herself while she was waiting for the tea to brew, and then quickly run to the toilet with the mug, hop on the toilet and take a sip, and haaaa-lllle-luyah...