My mom would alway say, "Dad is going to work to make the money!" - I thought he worked at the Federal Mint...

She would also threaten "giving me back to the indians where I came from" when I was misbehaving.

I thought American Indians lived in Pizza Hut

I thought letting 4 guys I worked with pile into the car with open 40oz's, and driving them home to the ghetto was perfectly legal and safe. (My parents never told me we had an open container law! or that there were neighborhoods less savory than our wonderful suburb!)

I thought my parents were too poor to help pay for college... pwned

18yr old girl in high school who was dating my best friend replied when I asked her if she came, "Girls don't have orgasms!" - Poor guy, they are married now

Brag part... In Kindergarten we were reading See spot run... I walked over to the teachers desk and started reading the newspaper to her... She freaked... Mom taught me to read when I was 3ish and I couldn't get enough.

Weird part... When I was between 2 and 4 yrs old, I would often describe in extreme technical detail how to pilot my dead grandfather's airplane. (He had died when my father was 7yrs old) It was in such technical detail that my uncle freaked out, thought I was possessed or reincarneted or something. I got a super high fever at age 4 and never spoke like that afterwords.

Reality bites:

1. I thought colleges taught you something worth the thousands of dollars you were spending. I did some research on starting Salaries of graduates, and found out I was making more than than them at my part time government contracting job.

2. I was in awe to find out just recently 2 out of every 3 people are addicted to either Drugs and/or Alcohol. The average wage of a single person is $16/hr, the mean wage is $11/hr.

We had these 2 girls in high school who were completely gullible.

One day we had them in tears because, "that morning the news had reported that the moon was going to crash into the earth in 3 days."

I cant remember any of the other ones, but it was a daily thing to see what we could get them to believe, 99% of it they bought without question. Usually it was hard to get them to believe we had made it up.

Not mine, but one of my little brother's misconceptions. He thought that just because someone's birthday came earlier in the year that they had to be older than anyone with a later birthday. He couldn't figure out how he was born in August and I was born in September, yet I was older than him. He didn't figure it out until he was about 7 or 8.

I thought that the traficlights were controlled by someone underground.That a light would turn up and a bell would sound when someone pushed a button. Boy did I hate those people who pushed the button multiple times, he was just doing his job alright.

Didn't buy the I'm born in september you are born in february you are older crap. (4 or 5)

I thought the world was fair and just, and that everyone got what they deserved.

the average American still thinks like this and has 10K+ of cc debt

no, the shocker only takes care of 2 of these holes

Turns out bales of hay and hail are two different things.

two things:

1) When you are a boy and you get old, you have to start going by your middle name. My older brother and I were given the middle names of our two grandfathers, who by coincidence both happened to have gone by their middle name since birth. I thought they just switched when they got old, otherwise what is the point of the middle name. I was always amazed that my grandmothers never messed up and called their husbands what they used to call them when they were young. I thought this was true for a surprisingly long time, and I was pretty pissed about having to switch when I got old.

2) People built the mountains with bulldozers.

I thought that some people were born little, and some were born big, and I was one of the little ones.

When you squint your eyes at a light and it gets all blurry, I used to think that made it blurry for everyone else also. Forget what age.

My 12 year old cousin asked my aunt what things were like before color. She was confused at first, then realized that he'd been watching the Andy Griffith show in Black and White, and he thought that's the way everything looked in the past. Her and my mom called it cute, I call it a 12 year old with a learning disability.

-I thought that when I closed my eyes or turned away, everyone else dissapeared.
-I also thought that I could see through things (like my hand) by blurring my eyes and getting double vision.
-I thought that my mom knew everything, until I was 13 or 14, when she told me something and I got in a huge fight with my friends about it. She was wrong.
-I thought that opinions cant be wrong. They can.

I saw a 60 minutes special (or some similar show) and found it very neat as the kid who did the same things as you did was probably (if you believe in it) a person who crashed a plane in the Pacific in WWII...he knew his friends names, etc...so much detail. They said a few kids have this happen but stop at about the age you did. Very neat story.

As far as this thread i used to think that vaginas were on the front (like bellybutton) of women

Great thread.

I thought dungeons and dragons would help me get into "the in crowd" -28

That must have been ackward the first time.

craig

When I was a kid I used to think "The Wonder Years" and to a lesser extent "Happy Days" were old reruns originally filmed and aired in their supposed time periods.

FYP

I thought the same thing about checks and didn't understand why they didn't pay for everything with them (about 4 years old).

When I was about 10, I kept hearing "don't drink and drive" everywhere. I thought you couldn't drink and drive because you might get into an accident when you tilted your head up to drink.

I yelled at my dad when I was 11 when he was drinking a coke while driving.

I thought "Do Not Pass" signs meant not to pass the sign.

hmmm...

I thought that the moon had it's own light source, not lit from the light of the sun. Not sure what age...10ish? total mind blower.

Oh, I also thought that LL CoOl J was good...11

Me too...figured that one out at 14

I thought the same thing 'til I was like 8 or something... I was actually quite depressed and wondered why everyone had to die at only 100 when I was like 6-7.

About the sex stuff, don't you learn these kind of things in school? Here in Sweden we learn about basically everything mentioned in here in school, even about how to masturbate and things like that ^^