Ooh, so glad you started this up! The old thread was hilarious!

I used to think that cars took up the entire road. Which obviously wouldn't make sense since then we'd be crashing into all the oncoming traffic. But somehow it made sense to me. The first time I saw in the front seat of the van I was like "oh. we aren't as big as I thought"

I thought that people could only have babies if they prayed hard enough, since my mom told me they prayed to God for a baby. I actually remember one time in the grocery store when I saw a woman shopping by herself and I (soo judgemental! ) thought she hadn't prayed hard enough. Of course I never thought maybe she had kids and they weren't with her...lol.

I also was under the impression that grownups NEVER did anything bad. Again, seems like if I'd thought about it this wouldn' thave made any sense to me, since I knew of there being bad people in the world. But I still thought once I grew up I'd never do anything bad again. If only...! aha

I'll probably think of some more, but that's it for now.

For me, when I was really young, I thought cars just sort of drove themselves. I was shocked when I learned that my parents were the ones making the car do everything.

When I was little I thought that the car's radiator fan made the car move since it looked like an airplane propeller.

I never saw the old thread. So hopefully I don't write what was in that one.
Like most kids I thought there were people inside the TV. I also thought the Ninja Turtles were real, my aunt lived in a building near a lake that had turtles in them- when my cousin told us there were turtles there, rather than looking for normal looking turtles, I began to look for those red, yellow, purple and blue bands they had over their eyes. I often thought I saw them too

Well, I hoped to write more but my mind is blank at the moment. I will be back though with more as soon as I can remember something else.

I have some!

When I was like 4 or 5 I thought when a commercial says "batteries not included" you didnt need batteries to make the toy work

another is when a stop sign says "2-way" I thought you could only turn two ways!

and one time my sister told me whenever you go by grave yards you have to hold your breath so our air can go to them because they dont have any air underground, I still do this one out of habit

I used to think Top Ramen was called Top Robin, lol. And I didn't know about money. I thought if you wanted something, you just went to the store and took it. I could never understand why people said "No, we can't afford it" haha.

~Riella

I had lots of misconceptions as a child (still do ), but this is the only one I can remember at the moment. One year when I was about five or six, I boycotted staying up for New Years. I did this, very irritable and put out, because I had gotten it into my head that the new year also marked the end of winter and we wouldn't have any more snow. I suppose nobody had gotten me up to speed about the Gregorian calendar.

When I was like 4 or 5 I thought when a commercial says "batteries not included" you didnt need batteries to make the toy work

Hah I used to think the same thing!

-That being grown up was easy
-that tv show characters were real.

-That being grown up was easy

lol! I thought the opposite. I used to be terribly worried about growing up because I didn't realize that we mature as we get older. When I was little, I would be mischievous at times, and I always got so scared because I thought I would still act like that when I was an adult and I kept thinking, "I'm going to be the worst adult ever!"

^^ Haha, Ditto! I didn't want to grow up at all. Not because I was mischievous, but because all the grown-ups I knew always told me "Don't be too keen on growing up fast. It's not as easy or nice as it seems to you now." So I thought growing up must be something really kind of horrible, LOL.

~Riella

when mum said we on had black and white in the old days, I thought she meant everythign was black and white. Basically their eyes could only see in black and white.

the saying "they're as slow as a wet week" i thought it was weak and though it didn't make any sense.

when mum said we on had black and white in the old days, I thought she meant everythign was black and white. Basically their eyes could only see in black and white.

That's quite funny, ILF! We once had my niece convinced that the world was black and white back in the 20's and 30's and that it didn't turn color (and grainy at that) around the 40's.

There was a short period in my youth where I truly thought spaghetti grew on trees. I think it was on a commercial, but then my mom was messing with me and told me that it wasn't only true but that one day I should visit the spaghetti trees of Italy where folks would harvest long strands of it and stuff it in boxes.

I used to think that when people got injured in movies, they had actually gotten injured

I used to think that babies came from a back room in the hospital

I used to think that people who had blue eyes had fake eyes

I had many misconceptions as a child, most of them fostered by my siblings.

I thought that the glugging sound that the plants in the sun room made (in reality, made by my sister) was the plants drinking water. I thought that Digimon was real and that if I just dressed up like the characters, grabbed a piece of bark for my digivice, and believed hard enough, I would go to the digital world and have a digimon and everything.

The last one was quite a lovely misconception. It made for many nice adventures.

I probably have many more, but at just the moment I want to think of them they flit straight out of my mind! I'll be back!

everyone's stuff on here is hilarious!