Funny misconceptions you had as a kid

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In our small town, we had these orange balls that were attached to tall power lines. They were there so planes could see the power lines and not fly into them. But when I was a kid, I thought these orange balls were basketballs. Everytime me and my mom would drive by them, I would ask her to climb up the powerline and get one for me. I never did get one, though.

Anyone else have any funny ones?
 
wow hmmm I remember thinking having sex and making love were 2 diffrerent things ( technically they arent but I know poeple would think other wise) . Another one would be that girls dont take dumps they just pee . I forgot how I that one came to pass.
 
[quote name='Grave_Addiction']In our small town, we had these orange balls that were attached to tall power lines. They were there so planes could see the power lines and not fly into them. But when I was a kid, I thought these orange balls were basketballs. Everytime I me and my mom would drive by them, I would ask her to climb up the powerline and get one for me. I never did get one, though.

Anyone else have any funny ones?[/QUOTE]

I had this EXACT same misconception when I was younger...they had those type of power lines on the way to my grandmother's house and when we'd travel there for holidays I would always want to get one...
 
Disclaimer: Mild Potty Humor.

When I was younger and my family ordered Chinese food, I always picked out those ling stringy onions and sprouts. I thought they were snot. I mean, who wants to eat snot on their Chicken with Fat Sauce?
 
I thought that everyone whose skin was darker than a white person's was black. When my girlfriend in kindergarten repeatedly insisted she wasn't (she was indian) I laughed at her and asked her why she was ashamed of being black. She broke up with me.

I also thought that ham, bacon and sausage all came from the same animal. It was magical and had wings.
 
When I first heard the term "suicide" I was about 7 or 8 years old. Well, I misheard the word thinking I heard "sewer side" (I was heavily into TMNT at the time) and assumed that whenever somebody committed "sewer side" that were actually going into hiding in the sewers.

I also was very confused when it came to borrowing money. I didn't understand how somebody could pay money back if it was already spent. Ahh, childhood lack of logic.
 
I thought Rush Limbaugh was right. I read both of his books in sixth grade.

For a more childish one, I thought that the hoverboards in Back to the Future II were real.

myke.
 
"Girls don't poop" was one of mine, also. I had a distant relative that was crosseyed.. my mom always told me if I made a face long enough, it'd stick that way. I'm still not entirely sure if that one's real or not, haha.

She also told me the button on the gearshift in the car would make the car blow up. That was, obviously to keep me from throwing the car in reverse in some random place. I never really noticed her touch the button in the car and I didn't question or stop to think "why would people have a button in the car that would blow it up?"..

I wasn't breastfed and I was sheltered, and for some odd reason, up until I was 8 or 9 and saw a cheesy adult film on skinemax, I thought girls did not have nipples. I thought boobs were just a ball of flesh.

I know I have more, i'll post more when I'm wide awake..
 
I thought a swimming pool on a ship was open on the bottom except for some kind of net underneath and that people basically swam in the ocean. Dumb!
 
I used to think that Dennis Quaid, Jeff Bridges and Kurt Russell were all the same person when I was young. I couldn't tell the difference.
 
For the longest time when I was a kid, I thought noses were completely useless and very funny looking. I mean, why have a big piece of flesh protruding from your face?
 
I had alot of math issues as a kid....

I thought that 1 + 1 = was still 1. And heres why, when you add water in a glass, and you pour a little more in, that was still 1 glass of water....

Dont even get me started on greater than/less than.....I was totally lost.

But get me doing multiplication or long division I could do it in my head.

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I broke a "Hollow" Chocolate Bunny because it said it was "Solid Milk Chocolate".

It wasnt, I pushed my thumbs right through it when I was 3.

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I learned how to read at 2 1/2 - 3 years old and it ended up with me being very confused about everything. I read into everything literally, and i think because of that I still do.

Like wondering why a hamburger wasnt made out of ham.
 
I saw my first porn (debbie does Dallas) when I was 7 on a TV with bad color (white looked green). Since I knew nothing before that point, I thought that when a guy ejaculated, green stuff shot out of a sore on the side of his pee pee and it looked pretty painful. I SO didn't want to have sex after that.

Because of the massive amount of comics I read as a kid, I was never worried about bad things happening to me because I was fully convinced that any kind of painful accident would give me superpowers. Now I'm only half convinced.
 
[quote name='Grave_Addiction']In our small town, we had these orange balls that were attached to tall power lines. They were there so planes could see the power lines and not fly into them. But when I was a kid, I thought these orange balls were basketballs. Every time me and my mom would drive by them, I would ask her to climb up the power line and get one for me. I never did get one, though.

Anyone else have any funny ones?[/QUOTE]

I grew up in Florida, I just thought they were decoration because it was Florida and its all about Oranges down there.
 
[quote name='CheapyMom']I thought a swimming pool on a ship was open on the bottom except for some kind of net underneath and that people basically swam in the ocean. Dumb![/QUOTE]

That's actually a pretty cool idea.
 
When I was very young, maybe 5 or 6, I was watching TV and crossed my eyes a bit so that I was seeing two seperate TVs. I thought I had somehow doubled the TV. I remember running to my napping mother and waking her up in a panic, terrified by my newfound ability.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought this one. When I first saw Michael Jackson (which would've been around the time of his "Black or White" single), I thought he was a white woman. Several years later, I saw footage of him with the Jackson Five and simply couldn't believe it was the same person.
 
[quote name='Ledhed']When I was very young, maybe 5 or 6, I was watching TV and crossed my eyes a bit so that I was seeing two seperate TVs. I thought I had somehow doubled the TV. I remember running to my napping mother and waking her up in a panic, terrified by my newfound ability.[/QUOTE]

Hahahahaha.

This isn't mine, but is from my then-four-year-old daughter.

One time we were wrestling and I pulled on her hand and one of her fingers popped. She immediately began freaking out and screaming. When I finally calmed her down, she told me she thought I broke her finger.
 
[quote name='basketkase543']When I first heard the term "suicide" I was about 7 or 8 years old. Well, I misheard the word thinking I heard "sewer side" (I was heavily into TMNT at the time) and assumed that whenever somebody committed "sewer side" that were actually going into hiding in the sewers.

I also was very confused when it came to borrowing money. I didn't understand how somebody could pay money back if it was already spent. Ahh, childhood lack of logic.[/QUOTE]


haha.. exact same thing happened to me. I also watched turtles and thought everyone said "sewer side"
 
[quote name='Ledhed']When I was very young, maybe 5 or 6, I was watching TV and crossed my eyes a bit so that I was seeing two seperate TVs. I thought I had somehow doubled the TV. I remember running to my napping mother and waking her up in a panic, terrified by my newfound ability.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought this one. When I first saw Michael Jackson (which would've been around the time of his "Black or White" single), I thought he was a white woman. Several years later, I saw footage of him with the Jackson Five and simply couldn't believe it was the same person.[/QUOTE]

When I was younger I would cause my eyes to nto focus and I thought that maybe I was making it that way (unfocused) for everyone.

Similar to your "Powers"
 
I confused Leprechauns with Leopards, so i was afraid when we had to catch one in kindergarden.

Not me but my mom, thought Jewish people were buried standing up, for 30 years

I thought the communion wafers at church were pogs
 
Kid nothing. I just found out this year that pineapples grow on the ground and not in trees. I was blown away.
 
[quote name='jmcc']Kid nothing. I just found out this year that pineapples grow on the ground and not in trees. I was blown away.[/QUOTE]
What...they grow on the ground
 
[quote name='Ozzkev55']What...they grow on the ground[/QUOTE]

Yes. They're like cabbages, apparently.
 
[quote name='evilmax17']I was shocked too. I learned it from Good Eats.[/QUOTE]

Ah, Good Eats. Is there anything it can't teach us?
 
[quote name='jmcc']Ah, Good Eats. Is there anything it can't teach us?[/QUOTE]
How to fix my headlight, its being a real bitch
 
When I first heard on the news that illegal aliens got arrested I thought they had arrested aliens from outer space.

When I went to the movies, I'd see a sign for "The Matinee" and I thought it was a movie called "The Manitee"
 
Hmmm..anyone else ever think they had "super x ray vision" because if the looked at a piece of paper held over half their face, they could still see out the other eye...but your brain, with both eyes open, would super-impose the paper too..so it sorta looked like you could "see through" a solid object (even though it was just the offset of one of your eyes being able to see "around" the object??

For some reason when i was really young I used to think that.

Much like I'd stare for hours at the "if you wave a pencil in front of your face it appears to bend in mid-air..even though its solid".....man that STILL perplexes me :)
 
i pronounced Memorial day as Mario day...so I was always wondering why people weren't wearing Nintendo or Mario gear on that day... :lol:
 
As a kid I couldn't figure out how a vhs tape projected on to the tv, so i always wondered did they shrink the actors and placed them inside the video tape, and they'd act out the same things over and over as long as you turned on the vcr.

I also had a bestfriend who always lied to me, and he told me the hazard button on a car, when pressed would make the whole car fall apart and eject you out of the car.
 
I thought girls could get pregnant from oral.

I thought that masterbating was just when you adjusted a bit.

Sorry they are sexual in nature but we were all naive once.
 
When I was very very young I used to think that movie stars never actually saw the movies they were in. I also daydreamed about the possibility of some of those stars coming to my house and watching their movies for the first time.
 
[quote name='HeadRusch']Hmmm..anyone else ever think they had "super x ray vision" because if the looked at a piece of paper held over half their face, they could still see out the other eye...but your brain, with both eyes open, would super-impose the paper too..so it sorta looked like you could "see through" a solid object (even though it was just the offset of one of your eyes being able to see "around" the object??[/Quote]


I use to think the same exact thing.

I also couldnt understand that it was colder on top of a mountain then it was at sealevel, even though it was closer to the sun.
 
As a kid, I thought snow was God's dandruff and rain was when he was crying for something I did bad. I also thought lightning was when God did laundry since it meant he was turning on the electricity and if a tornado showed up, God was using the spin cycle to rinse the clothing out.

Some non-religious stuff:

When my cousin gently bit into my 4-yr old sister, he told her she had rabies. Not knowing what rabies was but knew that it had to do with dogs, she thought she was going to turn into a werewolf. Didn't figure that she was being lied to until she was 5.

I thought Transformers were real. They just never transformed in front of me to keep their identity secret.

I thought beer was a truth serum that secret agents used whenever they needed information. It always puzzled me why normal ppl would drink the stuff until I had my 3rd beer at 15.

I would always confuse liberals with libraries (don't ask) so that every time I hear a politician on TV complaining about those damn liberals I thought he really hated reading.
 
wow you guys were dense (i kid, i kid)

when i was like 4 i could of swore i was able to put a vhs upside down and watch a whole 'nother side of cartoons on it... i even remember it being ducktales, something i never recorded!!

later on i just found out my parents would get me real high so i'd pass out, probably explains it all
 
The local mall here has two stories.. when we parked at the upstairs portion and went downstairs in the mall, I thought we were going underground.
 
[quote name='jah_warrior28']When i was really young 2-4 years old I thought the Devil ran the stoplights through some kind of periscope.[/QUOTE]

Easily the best one thus far.

I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one convinced that he had super-powers of some sort. Ah, to dream...
 
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