Hey Pandas, What's The Weirdest Thing You Believed In As A Kid (Closed)

I live in New Zealand, and when I was a kid my mother used to get the womens magazines from the UK. They were always out of date by the time we got them, and I truly believed that the UK was about three months behind NZ, so say it was April in NZ, it was January in UK.

Santa and Christianity

That adulthood would be great!

I thought SpongeBob was a chunk of cheese despite literally having the word “sponge” in his name? In my defense I never watched the show or I probably would have figured it out a lot sooner lol

If I ate the breadcrusts on my sandwiches my hair would go curly. The adults around me would tell me this as an incentive to eat them. It had a opposite effect.

When my Grandma taught me, at 3-4, to say bedtime prayers, she started with the one that said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.' We had a housekeeper named Grace, so in my mind Mary was a very sweet and very plump lady of color. Later on, the pictures in church were quite confusing.

First I have to explain the background. In my language a padded cell is called "Gummizelle". You would translate it to "rubber cell". I thought that the bars were made of rubber instead of steel.

That I received telepathic messages from Yoda

I believed that countries were real things that existed in reality, and not ideas that people have willed into existence by agreeing to believe in them.

My Dad had my brother and I believe that due to anti-pollution laws, Cars couldn't leave the state of Kentucky. When we finally saw a car with Kentucky plates, he claimed that it could never return to the state!

We finally realized he was spinning yarns when, on a cross country roadtrip, we actually drove through the state.

When I was getting my tonsils out a family friend of my dads came to visit and convinced me when I was 7 that the surgeon was going to slit my throat and pull them out through my neck. It took a while for my parents to convince me it was a joke

I thought the moon followed me. It made me happy!

I believed that there was a significant difference between races. African here. I have now decided it's just cultural. Individualism vs collectivism is the biggest difference (westerners are indivdiualists).

When I was in elementary school, our teacher told us that Antarctica was the world’s largest iceberg. And it stays at the bottom of the world because it is too heavy to float upward. Now whenever I hear something about Antarctica, I still initially think of it as an iceberg.

That my mirror was evil

That I could change the stop lights from red to green by saying the magic words: "Abracadabra AlakaZOOM!"

I grew up in the last years of a ruthless communist dictatorship. You could end up in jail as an "enemy of the people" if you criticized the regime. Propaganda was intense and we were taught that the supreme leader could read our thoughts

I was eight, and my cat at the time once swallowed a grasshopper whole in front of me. I was convinced after that that every time I stroked her back, and her spine moved (because she liked the feeling of it), it was the grasshopper still alive inside her jumping around.

My older brother told me that if I flushed the toilet when I was filling the bathtub with water, whatever I flushed down the toilet would come out of the bath faucet into the tub. I didn't flush while filling the tub for the longest time, long after I realized he had tricked me.

Mother told me if i didnt add at LEAST 3 eggs, perferably 4, to my scrambled eggs, they would turn out disheveled and unappetizing. Turns out she was just trying to make sure her child, who wanted to skip lunch in favor of playing gnomes and fairies in the yard, got enough protien.