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

My Dad used to tell me that this scar or that injury was a result of a myriad of different old wars, like the civil war or the war of 1812. Yep I believed him lol

That different colored M&Ms tasted differently from each other.

I am a white French woman and I grew up in the Northeast of France, in a place (the Vosges region) where there was historically significant Turkish immigration in the 20th century. In my small town, many businesses and restaurants are Turkish, I grew up with Turkish neighbors, and at school, many of my classmates and friends were of Turkish origin. When I was very little (between the ages of 3 and 6), I simply thought that “Turkish” was a kind of Vosgian, and that the difference between the “Turks” and my family was simply that my Turkish friends’ moms would bake cakes to bring to school. When I discovered that Turkey was a whole other country, I was astonished.

When I was little, I was convinced that an owl's head could not only turn 360 degrees but it could keep going around and around. (Probably got that idea from my brother) I saw one sitting on a fence post in the pasture and decided to check it out by circling him. After my 6th time of crawling through the barbed wire, I pretty much figured it out.

My parents convinced my sister and I ( we were like 5-6 ) that if a boy shook our hand we would get pregnant. So every time an older guy, one of their friends or church members, would try to shake our hands we got into trouble because we didnt want to get pregnant. Really messed us up, actually. They refused to teach us anything about the birds and the bees and because of it we had no clue what sex was. Im talking severely sheltered to the point we were not allowed to watch anything on TV for fear they might kiss or something. They also taught us that the devil had special demons our at night to catch little girls and hurt them. So we werent allowed outside at all past a certain point. Even if they were outside and could watch us. On top of that, we were taught to serve men. As in bring their shoes, the paper, food/drinks.. Didnt matter who it was if there was a male visitor we turned into servants and would get into trouble if we didnt serve good enough or spilled something, or took too long. Really screwed us up and now we are both in therapy and have been for YEARS because of this and other things...and they wonder why we barely have contact anymore...

That there’s an all-powerful deity who wants a personal relationship with me, a weak, pathetic mortal by contrast, for some reason.

As a young girl, I strongly believed anyone involved in politics
were very bad people. This I think came from early days of
television, however, I continue to feel the same.
Not my parents, they never discussed that subject !!!

If a teen around 13 years old counts as a kid:

Cows. Despite having had actual Sex Ed in school I believed that cows somehow were an exception to the rule that only pregnant/nursing females from a mammalian species produced milk. I thought they just produced it constantly.
It took a late night documentary about farming to correct me about it.

My mom would always convince me that the Cookies and Cream chocolate bars from Hershey's that I'd get on Halloween were poisonous, and would always take them out of my candy haul.

One day when I was 8, I caught my mom eating a piece, then I yelled "Mom, you're eating poison?!"

At that point, she knew the jig was up, and I realized she just loved cookies and cream chocolate bars. We still get a good laugh from it to this day.

1. That there were actual lines marking up the Bermuda Triangle, like the sea just stopped and formed a triangle in that spot.

2. That wooly Mammoths still existed and that they were just male elephants, like how cows are female bulls

My parents "gave" us the Sega Mega Drive and made us believe that the console didn’t work at night. Every evening, my dad and mom played Sonic in their bedroom after we had gone to bed. :)

When I was a kid I believed that if I rubbed my eyes too hard they would fall back into my head. I had no idea how to retrieve my eyes and this stressed me out.

When I was 4, our preschool had an activity where you stuck toothpicks in marshmallows to build balls. Pretty standard. The teacher told us that the marshmallows she had were "non-edible" and couldn't be eaten. I had moved from Korea to the US at the time, and had never seen a marshmallow. For *five years*, I believed that marshmallows were genuinely inedible.

When I went grocery shopping with my mum I'd see her pay with money, then the cashier would give my mum her money back (the change). I thought that when you bought something you just got your money back. 😄 If only it was so....

1. That there were actual lines marking up the Bermuda Triangle, like the sea just stopped and formed a triangle in that spot.

2. That wooly Mammoths still existed and that they were just male elephants, like how cows are female bulls

1. That there were actual lines marking up the Bermuda Triangle, like the sea just stopped and formed a triangle in that spot.

2. That wooly Mammoths still existed and that they were just male elephants, like how cows are female bulls

My sister taught me if I stood on the yellow lines in the road I'd turn yellow, so I spent a lot of time jumping over lines.

Not me, but my twin nieces. When they were 4 or so, their grandparents took them on a road trip around to visit several National Parks. At the time, one of my nieces refused to eat anything other than macaroni and cheese. She would have meltdowns, fits, and food throwing (at the extreme) if she was offered anything else. When the group of them entered Kansas, her grandparents teamed up, and stated matter-of-factly that "It is against the law to eat macaroni and cheese in Kansas." My niece (who has always struggled with the concept of breaking rules, even extremely benign ones), was therefore able to try myriad other foods, and discovered that she did, in fact, like hamburgers, chicken nuggets, vegetables, and many other items she shunned at home! The story only fell through when she was older and they visited a grocery store in Kansas, and she found the shelves full of various mac 'n' cheese brands! By then, though, she was fine with eating other foods. Granny and Grandad FTW!!!

I believed that jelly babies shouldn't die alone and so insisted on eating more than one at a time. Actually I still hold on to this truth. And it's not weird. Sorry wrong place to post.