Childhood Misconceptions.
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I don't know. Maybe that would explain why I was so restless and depressy throughout my teens.
That's not hard at all to conclude when you're young.
I'm sure a few people've had this one, but I thought America was all there was in the world.Sticking with this geographically ignorant theme, I used to think that the house we went to in the summer with my grandparents was "Maine." Like, just the house.
That reminds me! My parents had these two big walk-in closets in their room, and my younger brother and I referred to one of them, that was so full of books that one could not walk in there, as "Aunt Jinny's house" and we used to go in there a lot. The other, which we did not play in so much, was "Freddy's house".
To this day, no one has the slightest idea why.
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When I was a kid I used to believe in God.
I don't really remember having any misconceptions when I was a kid. I just remember being really confused and not knowing anything.
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How can people remember all this stuff? My childhood memories are a mass of static and swirling colours.
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When I saw Ace Ventura for the first time, I didn't understand the ending when Lois Einhorn was actually a dude because you could see her junk through her underwear and my dad kept telling me that she just had a bad case of hemorrhoids.
x 5I thought the same thing; I only learned the truth of it prob three years ago (been a long time since I saw that movie since I was young).
I was often confused to the alignments of colors when I was little; red was usually/always bad, and blue was good - but white was also good; so eventually I had white and blue fight to the death to see which color was essentially "more good".
Good times.
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I did something similar, I assigned genders to numbers. 3, 4 were the only female numbers, the rest were male, and 9 was mean, 7 was kind of his lacky, but 8 and 10 were like, noble.
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I independently developed the concept of even and odd numbers a few years in advance of actually learning about them, except I called even numbers "good" numbers and odd numbers were "bad" numbers. When we finally learned about even and odd numbers in second grade, I was quite upset that someone stole my idea.
I didn't realize that jumping was the result of pushing your own mass away from the Earth's comparatively larger mass and thought that simply the action of moving your legs in a jumping manner would result in a jump. Because of this, I concluded that it was possible to fly by jumping once, jumping again before you hit the ground, and continuing to jump repeatedly before you fell back to the point of your previous jump. I even spent a few minutes in my back yard practicing, and was extremely confused and discouraged when I couldn't get it to work.
I thought that I was extremely athletic and one of the fastest runners alive until the track unit in sixth grade gym class, when I placed fourth out of four in a 400 meter dash and was completely out of breath and in tears by the 200th meter mark. In all fairness, one of my geckos had been found dead that morning and I was very upset about it.
I thought I was going to be a pro-wrestler when I grew up because I could do moonsaults, 450° splashes and shooting star presses from a diving board.
Before that, I was going to be a "scientist," which was a person who dug up dinosaur bones.
I also thought that by the time I was 12, I would be a "big kid" and I would be able to join the fire department and fight fires with my dad.
And I thought that I would be married and have kids when I was 20.
EDIT: I also swore that I hated girls and I would never like them because they were gross. The only girl I liked was my mom, and I would never get married unless it was to Mommy.
I didn't realize that jumping was the result of pushing your own mass away from the Earth's comparatively larger mass and thought that simply the action of moving your legs in a jumping manner would result in a jump. Because of this, I concluded that it was possible to fly by jumping once, jumping again before you hit the ground, and continuing to jump repeatedly before you fell back to the point of your previous jump. I even spent a few minutes in my back yard practicing, and was extremely confused and discouraged when I couldn't get it to work.
I thought that I was extremely athletic and one of the fastest runners alive until the track unit in sixth grade gym class, when I placed fourth out of four in a 400 meter dash and was completely out of breath and in tears by the 200th meter mark. In all fairness, one of my geckos had been found dead that morning and I was very upset about it.
I thought I was going to be a pro-wrestler when I grew up because I could do moonsaults, 450° splashes and shooting star presses from a diving board.
Before that, I was going to be a "scientist," which was a person who dug up dinosaur bones.
I also thought that by the time I was 12, I would be a "big kid" and I would be able to join the fire department and fight fires with my dad.
And I thought that I would be married and have kids when I was 20.
EDIT: I also swore that I hated girls and I would never like them because they were gross. The only girl I liked was my mom, and I would never get married unless it was to Mommy.
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