Embarrassing Childhood Facts

[JustAlex1997]

I thought that cyberspace was a real place and, as such, things like computer viruses physically existed and could enter our world. Our computer was in the living room, and I'd always look away when passing it at night.

 

[redhusky]

When I first got into the net and something had a notice like "for fans only" if I listened/looked at it and I wasn't really a fan someone would actually come to my house and arrest me.

 

[Punkedsolar]

'Inflammable' meant your pyjamas were immune to flame.

 

[Quantumwuff]

I though left and right were synonymous with East and West. I didn’t understand that someone facing you has the opposite left and right.

 

[Glossolalia]

When I was very young (before preschool) I thought "a year" was an interval of time that occured between summer and fall. The seasons themselves occured outside of the year, and were their own separate thing. I don't know where I got this in my head.

 

[JustAlex1997]

When I was very young (before preschool) I thought "a year" was an interval of time that occured between summer and fall. The seasons themselves occured outside of the year, and were their own separate thing. I don't know where I got this in my head.

Madness or brilliance? I honestly can't decide.

 

[Ashwolves5]

Chocolate milk is from brown cows right?

 

[redhusky]

Chocolate milk is from brown cows right?

What kind of question is that? Of course it does!

 

[Ghostbird]

I used to think some tv shows were black and white on purpose. I didnt know that it was because they were old.

 

[Stray Cat Terry]

I thought adults know and can assure everything so I kept being so obedient that even a well-tamed doggo was more defiant than me.

 

[Raever]

I though left and right were synonymous with East and West. I didn’t understand that someone facing you has the opposite left and right.

This.
Right here.
Blew my fucking mind as a kid.
Took me at least a day to wrap my head around it.

Also!

I felt the need to question magic in movies an obnoxious amount of times. For example, "Why did santa fall off the roof? How did he get on the roof? If he's immortal how did he die? Where did the body go?"

Raever: giving fellow humans headaches since 1997

 

[SkyboundTerror]

As a 4 year-old kid, I loved being lifted up by my uncle. So every time he'd come visit, I'd run up to him and ask him to carry me.

Spanish is my first language, and I had trouble pronouncing my Rs, let alone roll them, when I was young.

My uncle was the definition of a prankster. Asking him to carry me always ended with him turning around and faking a fart on my head.

I'll let the Spanish speakers figure this one out.

 

[Mambi]

For the longest while after watching countless movies of people and Disney characters falling in love, kissing passionately, and then shown having a baby, I'd assumed that pregnancy was caused by passionate kissing!!!
The longer and deeper the kiss, the more likely you were going to have a baby. Little pecks were clearly safe though, so I was able to kiss my grandparents and sister/mother without worrying about their health though.

 

[Stray Cat Terry]

I thought Thomas the blue engine was real........

 

[Punji]

My father told me he was Batman in France and I believed him for a while.

 

[Rayd]

i thought WWE was real until i was like 11, and thought the moves they did on tv were actual competent moves to do in a fight.

 

[Fallowfox]

I thought Thomas the blue engine was real........

You're saying he's not!?

 

[redhusky]

You're saying he's not!?

He's made from practical effects so he's..... PRACTICALLY real!

 

[TyraWadman]

I thought it hurt men to orgasm.
I would only ever hear people swear when they were mad or hurt so when I discovered porn around 11... yea.

 

[redhusky]

I thought it hurt men to orgasm.
I would only ever hear people swear when they were mad or hurt so when I discovered porn around 11... yea.

That's just something people would say to keep boys from touching themselves like it'll make you go blind or have all you hair fall out.

 

[TyraWadman]

That's just something people would say to keep boys from touching themselves like it'll make you go blind or have all you hair fall out.

No one told me this. I just came to the conclusion on my own.

 

[_Ivory_]

I was terrorized by the washing machine, i was comcinced it was a robot that wanted to kill me.

 

[redhusky]

I was terrorized by the washing machine, i was comcinced it was a robot that wanted to kill me.

Who says that it isn't!?



More than meets the eye....

 

[_Ivory_]

Who says that it isn't!?



More than meets the eye....

More than meets the eye?

 

[ZeroVoidTime]

I thought bones were made of stone when I was 7....... (Someone in my class actually called me stupid when I did not know it at the time.) I also got in trouble for pointing at something with middle finger around that age not knowing it was an insult. By the way this happen at two different schools and that was due to me moving around a lot when I was younger. (I was such an innocent child when I was younger.)