People Are Sharing Some Of The Strangest Things They Believed As Kids

When I was younger, I used to believe that dragonflies were huge—like, I'm talking "bigger than a dog" huge. It's because once when I was super young, I found one on the porch and my baby brain was so afraid of it that it dramatically exaggerated the dragonfly's size. But for the longest time, I didn't know that's what was going on. I just thought that every once in a while, you'd stumble across one that was giant.

As a kid, you're easily influenced and you don't know things about the world, so it's fun to reflect.

Let's Hope He Makes It To 99

Tweet: If someone at my house told a joke that was all adult everyone would get it but my and no one would explain it to me. My parents said,
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Imagine if this were true and you didn't get to understand dirty jokes until you were 99? What would the world be like? Certainly a less funny place in some ways.

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What Was The Point?

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Tweet: My father told my brother and me that there was no such place as Montana - that it was a big hole in the ground and the only people who lived there were people who swept dirt off the sign
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I would really love to know why this person's dad told them Montana wasn't real. Did he have something against Montana? Did he genuinely think that it wasn't real and it's a whole conspiracy?

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The Fish Were Probably Hiding

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Tweet: I'm a hypersensitive person and I was terrified of things touching me that I couldn't see so when we went camping at his favorite river he had me convinced it was the
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The likelihood that the fish were as grossed out by her as she was by them is super high, so she really had nothing to worry about to begin with.

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Oh, How Innocent We Were

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Tweet: When I was little my mom told me not to bring food into the grocery store because people may think you got it there. I thought that meant they would look for it and get disappointed that they couldn't find it. Not the more obvious they may think you stole it
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How cute is that? That he would worry about people not being able to find anything in the store. Like, the thought that people taking things that don't belong to them isn't a real thing.

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This Is A Very Elaborate Explanation

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Tweet: I thought that all kids wear their favorite shoes to the airport. If they were bad on the airplane the parents would take their shoes, tie them together, and throw them out the window when they plane went over their house so that their kid would see their shoes on the telephone wire
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Stuff like this always makes me laugh because they obviously saw shoes on a telephone wire and this was the explanation that they came up with. That made more sense than the idea that someone threw them up there.

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It Does Feel Like This Sometimes

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Tweet: When I was like six I thought that our bodies were hollow and that when you are food it just kind of fell into the bottom and that there'd be a point that you couldn't eat food again because your body would be full
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I'm not convinced that this isn't true, because when it comes to crushing a bag of chips or eating candy, it seems to be a bottomless pit that will never be filled.

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We All Believed This

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Tweet: I thought that tiny people worked inside traffic lights and controlled which cars got to go and which had to stop. This belief persisted for some small number of years.
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It just goes to show you that we will always try and find a meaning for something that we don't understand in a way that will make sense to us and kind of make us happy at the same time.

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I Can't See Where He's Coming From

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Tweet: I stayed up late when I was eight, so I could watch the football movie...The Hunchback of Notre Dame...I didn't give up on the premise until at least fifteen minutes into it
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I'm curious about what part of the premise of this movie could have to do with football, because in my mind this is such a reach that I just can't even imagine.

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If Only This Were True

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Tweet: My sister and I thought that as we grew older our parents would grow younger. When upset with them, we would threaten them by saying,
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Imagine if every person in the world had Benjamin Button disease, and we just aged backward, and someday our kids would be older than we are? It's weird, but I'm here for it.

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A Classic Kid Belief

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Tweet: I thought planes picked you up at your house. I was four when going to Disney for the first time and remember sitting in front of the balcony of my house
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I used to believe this, too! I believed that, like, buses and planes would come and get you from your house. The concept of a place where you go to catch them was nuts to me.

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That Might Make It Easier

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Tweet: My parents were both born on the same day. When I was very little I thought all parents shared a birthday. I thought that was how people paired off
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For those of us who aren't good at dating, this might have worked out really well! It would narrow down the dating pool and then no one would have to worry about their partner forgetting their birthday.

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Where Did She Get Lemons?

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Tweet: I thought the speed limit was a speed lemon which i interpreted as a lemon that floated under your car and kept track of how fast you were going
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I don't know about you, but this is exactly the kind of thing that I could picture a lemon doing if it were sentient. They would love enforcing the law.

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I Don't Even Want To Know

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Tweet: I thought pickles were made from alligators
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There is so much of me that wants to know why they thought this was true, but I also know that it's probably better if I don't know because it will make me feel weird about pickles.

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Who Needs Them, Anyway?

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Tweet: My older brother saw me itch my armpit when I was about six and told me that if your armpits are itchy you have to get them removed and that our dad didn't have any
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Honestly, not having armpits would solve a lot of problems for me, so I wish that it was true. They get so smelly and yes, itchy, and it would be one less thing to take care of.

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Kids Are So Rude

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Tweet: I asked my mom why her thighs were prickly and she told me she had sat on a cactus when she was younger. I believed this for a very long time.
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It sounds to me like that little kid was the one being prickly. Why do kids insist on asking such rude questions? Do I know I have a unibrow and pimples? Yes. I don't need you to point it out.

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If Only That Were True...

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Tweet: I thought the year on a car windshield at a car dealership was how much they cost. Genuinely believed all cars, new or older, cost less than $2000
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If that were true, then all of us would be able to afford a car. I can see how that would make sense as a kid and how they got there.

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Agatha Christie If You're Nasty

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Tweet: I also thought that the adult bookstore we drove past on the way to the grocery store sold all the grown-up books, like Agatha Christie novels
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I hope that no one told her the truth and that it was something that always lived in the back of her mind until someone had to correct her about it one day.

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It Makes Sense To Me

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Tweet: That I would go to Sesame Street if I ate sesame seeds. Also that runaway truck ramps were magical portals for trucks to run away from home
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Sesame Street should be a place where you can get sesame everything, otherwise what is the point? To teach kids important life lessons? Please, that's not what this is about!!

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That's A Lot Of Subway Stations

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Tweet: My subway stop when I was a kid happened to be Christie station so I thought everyone got off the subway at their last name
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It might get confusing if you have the same last name as someone else. You'd probably get off at the wrong stop so often you might eventually forget who you really are.

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Those Are Some Good Life Habits

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Tweet: My grandma told me that if you don't got sleep before midnight, your blood won't renew right. Do if for three days, you die. I believed this for years. Guess who goes to sleep by 11 most nights?
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All this grandma was trying to do was make it so that her little granddaughter would get into bed at a good time and develop some really good habits! Nothing wrong with that...sort of.

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How Do They Get So Small?

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Tweet: I thought the people I heard on the radio lived inside, and when you changed the station, a little platform rose and snk to carry the new group of people to the speaker
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When I think back to the things like this that I used to believe, I think it's really funny that the idea of tiny people living in the radio was more reasonable to me than the idea that the voices were being transmitted there.

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I Can See That Being True

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Tweet: I thought that the world pre 1960s actually was black and white like color didn't exist in the world until, coincidentally when tv shows started having color
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How do we know that this wasn't true!? Just kidding, we obviously know it isn't, but they weren't there to know, and so kids take things at face value and believe it.

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Coffee Isn't For Girls

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Tweet: I thought only men were allowed to drink coffee because my dad drank coffee but mom didn't
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Great, that's the last thing we need! Something else that guys can have that girls have to fight for. But don't worry, we took coffee back with our iced coffee obsession.

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Did Any Of Them Come True?

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Tweet: My brother thought if you swallowed the fortune in fortune cookies the fortune would come true. He ate a bunch
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I would love to know if any of the fortunes came true in their mind because that might have been why he kept eating the fortunes. Maybe he didn't even read them before eating them!

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That Would Make Ladybugs Terrifying

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Tweet: For a long time I thought ladybugs caused baldness because once one landed on my dad's bald spot and he made a joke about it eating his hair
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This person probably spent a lot of time being afraid of ladybugs after that because they didn't want to lose all their hair! I would have been afraid of them!

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We've Got A Flat-Earther

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Tweet: I thought the world must be square because sidewalks had corners. I mean, somewhere a sidewalk corner had to fall on the corner of the planet right?
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Thank goodness that this person finally came to their senses and realized that the world isn't flat. There are people out there who are still struggling to get to that conclusion.

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The Best Sale Of All Time

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Tweet: When I was very young, I saw a sign that read
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If this were an actual sale that went on, then no one would pick the thing you had to pay for! If only this were true. Imagine how crazy Black Friday and Boxing Day would get?

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They Probably Give Great Hugs

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Tweet: I believed that penguins were the size of people. Super disappointing to learn otherwise.
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I don't know why, but I can't get it out of my mind that human-sized penguins would probably give excellent hugs, and now you can't convince me otherwise. Just think about it, you know I'm right.

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It's Their New Superpower

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Tweet: My mother told me if I drink too much pickle juice my bones would turn to rubber. I believed her because my sister had just shown us the experiment of a wishbone soaked in vinegar and it turned all bendy
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If it were me, I would have drank all of the pickle juice and hoped that my bones would become bendy so I could have become a superhero and have my own movies.

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That's How You Know You're Famous

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Tweet: I thought celebrities didn't poop. Like at all, that only non famous people pooped.
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If you're destined to be famous, then you're probably going to have a hard time pooping. That's really what separates them from us normal people in the end, isn't it?