What Were You Wrong About As A Kid? (Growing Up Stories r/AskReddit)
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The fourth one is hilarious, it just made my day!
As a kid I thought that whenever I watched a movie all the actors got together spontaneously and performed it in front of a camera...even for animated movies.
I used to think humans would eventually stop camping in my forest after they invented smart phones and stuff, but oh no
You're everywhere
I know
That my dad would come back from getting the milk
Ha. Ha. Ha. I cannot believe that your joke is so original and funny. Ha. Ha. Ha.
1. When I was a toddler, I thought that since eating food made you grow, that meant that some of the food you ate became part of your body and expanded your skin. Example I thought that the balls under my penis were parts of breakfast patty sausage I ate and that my ankle bones were hot dogs I ate. (I was partially right but only certain parts of food become ONE part of your body.)
Later, I was told by a friend that the balls under your penis are partially what is needed to have babies. Since I didn't know about sperm or the correlation between erections and intercourse, I assumed you just touched the tip to the female hole and one of your testees slipped through your urethra and gestated into a baby and that it grew back over time since some families have more than two kids.
2. I didn't know that black people, hispanics and asians were different races until I was told. I just assumed that some people had brown skin for some reason. Thank you society. Being colorblind was fun while it lasted.
3. I didn't realize that other countries had different governments or languages. I assumed they were all just fun ways to divide the land on a map. In school when I saw a Mercer Mayer computer game on a different language setting, I assumed there was something wrong with the program and laughed that the critters were all talking funny. I didn't even know that there were different religions or that religion existed. I just assumed that church was a community thing and that we all just believed in God or something.
4. I didn't realize Gay and Trans people were a real thing. I always assumed when two males kissed in a cartoon or a funny Tv show/movie that it was just meant to be played off as a joke. Also I was kind of aware that it was a surgery that changed your gender but assumed it was a rare thing that only 2 or 3 people ever got and didn't understand why. Also because kids at school used gay as a derogatory thing, I assumed it was wrong until my mother told me otherwise. I later learned that I was bisexual but because my school was full of homophobes, I kept it from everyone and even denied it myself even though I had crushes on Orlando Bloom, Tobey Mcguire and the Prince of Tennis (I had just assumed that I admitted they were handsome men.)
5. Since my first exposure to guns was Star Wars, I first assumed that guns in real life shot lasers. Then I saw a gun get discharged in an old Godzilla movie on TV and realized that was not the case.
6. Speaking of Godzilla, when I was very little, I thought that the original was made with documented footage of an actual monster attack and the story was written and filmed around it. I guess the special effects really live up.
7. Also this is irrelevant but when I was a kid, I asked my sister why Mario comes back to life after he dies and she answered that if you die once, the rest of the Marios are robots.
That the world is supposed to be a kind place and living peacefully is a right not a privilege
I used to think that you could plant corn kernels and it would grow a popcorn tree.
1:08 didn’t learn the truth until I was 13 lmao
In elementary school I was told there were cells in your body used for making repairs from injuries but if you got too hurt there wouldn't be enough and you would keep bleeding and die. This led to the belief there was some type of storage organ that already had all the repair cells your body would ever have. Thus every scratch and nick was counting down to the eventual death via bleed out. This made me quite the scaredy cat and personified Chucky from the rugrats for a bit.
That growing up would be awesome.
I want to go back.
When I was younger I assumed that it was impossible for adults to feel pain (or just not feel it as much) since I rarely saw adults cry after they got hurt
Back when I was a little kid I thought that coupons where the dessert treats shown in a commercial about cereal box tops. When my parents gave the box tops to my school's front office I was disappointed when didn't get the treats.
12:10 I thought this too, but about music. Like when I played the CD, it created a link to the band I was listening to, and there was a little screen in front of the musicians so they knew if I wanted the volume louder, or if I wanted to change the track. I still think about that to this day - the album was Keane- Hopes and Fears.
I thought playing basketball made you tall so when I was little I forced my mom to let me play basketball... boy was I wrong lol
Thought everyone wearing those fluorescent green vests was "a crossing guard on break." I figured out I was wrong last October. As a 17 year old. In my defense the school security guards always wore them while they directed traffic in the mornings and I'd see them walking off campus to buy coffee and food so I put 2 and 2 together. I did not get 4 in the end though.
3:30 oh my god 💀👌😂
I thought that a mustache had its roots in a nose, that it was just a nose-hair..
When I was 3 my mom needed to be induced into labor to have my brother and I thought the doctor was gonna stick a broom stick down her throat and knock him out of her belly.
All teacher live at school.
I used to think that it was flocet instead of faucet. Also my mom told me about Santa when I was three cause I worked hard on that tree, and it was my house, and I didn’t want some old man in there! What if he knocked something over, what if he broke my noodle ornament!?
My middle school was very vague about semen, and for the longest time I thought that my pee was semen, and people peed in girls to have kids. Good times
This thread makes me feel smart
I consistently mixed up the words pubic and public fun times
When I was 5, I thought money change worked like this
Say you want to buy something that is $1, but you only have ¢50. In my mind, you would ask for the item, pay your ¢50, get the item, and then get given ¢50 “change” by the store
Account balance doggo accountant 👍🏼😂
I have one for this. I always used to think that Jehova’s witnesses had seen something and were telling everyone about it.
My aunt told me if I run into a handicap sign I would become handicapped. Avoided them for years.
Had to change your name when u became a adult..I always thought I had a kid name and my dad had a dad name...lol
That my dad was legally allowed to hit me and my mom. Turns out he isn't, but he still got away with it.
Gosh I'm so sorry, I don't understand why he got away with it (You don't have to tell me, I understand if you think it's private matter). 'Hope you and your mom are doing okay now❤️
That's one way to get stoned lol
I actually used to believe the earth was flat and infinite, then I went to kindergarten and saw a globe for the first time and I realized how wrong I was (no my parents didn’t teach me This they just never corrected me cause it never came up)
That my parents knew what they were doing. They were winging just like I am.
1:36 same. That's why I was afraid of watermelons when I was 4
I thought that old people were killed when they turned 100 by the queen and prime minister. Oh and that when I was 5 that that was the final time anyone would die because the queen said that it would never happen again. I was watching a Remembrance Day news show. I vastly misunderstood it.
I thought that people only died when they got shot like in the movies. It wasn't until my grandpa died when I realized that you can die of old age. (technically he died because he smoked but my folks made it clear that old people eventually die.) Also what really depressed me was learning that kids could die. I never thought that there were diseases that could kill kids and thought that no human would be evil enough to kill one.
Well my mum always told me that pigs couldn't swim so I believed it she said that if they did they would scratch there ears off so I told everyone and my teacher proved me wrong by playing a video of a pig swimming during lesson so I looked like an idiot
11:06 one of the cats from Cats the musical is named Etcetera, but that’s probably not the reason...
Noice vid man. Keep up the good work.
I use to think little little tiny people lived I the T.V. I also thought Germany was occupied up until my neighbors moved in to the house next door from The Democratic People's Republic of Germany ( East Germany) after immigrating.
That my moms blond highlights would be passed down to me when I was old
I always called spaceship: "Spay-ship"
when I was like 3 o 4 I used to belive that my mom and dad where siblings and that I had to marry my sister and had no idea what my relationship whit my uncles and grandparents was (Im not from alabama btw)
Haga funny video bro have good time when I laugh XD
i relate to the last one
when i was about 10 i saw my babysitter’s license. i was looking around like “oh cool” until i saw
sex- F
...i thought she got a f grade for sex...
Thought rain was god crying
2:00 married or.. RELATED?? Alabama?
Babies were born out of your behind
Brown cows give chocolate milk
That it would be just like the simulations....
12:50 wait what?
Lol, how old are you?
That I was a mistake but I was very wrong when my mom said u were A VERY VERY VERY VERY BIG MISTAKE after that I took a big sh*t
I believed as a kid a women got pregnant by a Male peeing in her mouth. No idea how my child brain made that connection but that's what I believed lol
I want to be an adult
I would be able to move out and habe a massive house and basically be a millionaire by 16
I thought that since I was 5 years old and my sister was 13 that I'd be a girl when I turn 13 as well. I deduced that she was a boy at 5 because I'm 5 years old and I'm a boy.
Thankfully this was in a slightly more sensible era where PC culture hadn't had as much of an impact as it does today. Probably would've been taken away by child services and put on hormone blockers or some shit.
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Gotta love us British ruining everything!
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When I was younger I thought women HAD to where make up as we grew up. I cried as my mom tried to calm me down to explain we don't have to.
Halle freaking lujah!!!
5th
'Working 10-12 hours a day'
America wat? Get unions.
can i have a shoutout plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Lillyflower no
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