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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

... that you believed as a kid? Either things that you had made up in your own mind, or stuff parents / grandparents told you that you took as gospel?

Prompted by something I just saw on TV... I'll start - when I was little I used to think that all the songs that were on the radio were played live. I can picture it in my head now - I imagined little black studios behind the DJ and a band would play their song and then leave

obviously absolutely absurd, but it blew my mind when I figured out that wasn't the case.

I also believed for a while that sheep had 2 legs shorter than the other 2 - it let them stand on steep hills without falling over

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

That children should be seen and not heard.

That when the news was on the telly it was customary to be silent.

That I could talk to animals.

That I was very probably swapped at birth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That I would grow up to have magic powers because I have green eyes. That's from reading too many Enid Blyton books! Gutted that I won't get to live in the woods and talk to badgers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tooth fairy.

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By *annaBeStrongMan
over a year ago

wokingham

I thought when you were eating amd coughed and someone says “went down the wrong hole”.

I thought it actually did. And as an agile eventually you’d need to get it removed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My mate told me he had a full size At-At from Starwars when I was a kid. He told me he used to take it out at night and that he kept it in a big underground room. When I was round for a birthday party, I asked his mum about it and she laughed and said it wasn't true. I was devastated as I really wanted a go in it.

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By *andycandy88Woman
over a year ago

Northolt

One of mine was that I would live in a dolly house when I grow up

looool xx

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

I was a big reader when I was a child and even back then was fascinated by folklore.

Unfortunately, sans the gift of logic as so bequeathed as we get older, I took it as factual and consequently scared myself shitless that there were ‘little people’ dwelling in the woods who loved nothing more than devouring children, vampires that might prey upon us at night and all manner of other heinous denizens out there just itching to harm us

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That I could disappear if I wanted. Be invisible.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My dad once told my haggis had 1 leg shorter than the other to run round the mountains better

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That when I grew up I would be a famous author

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

I believed that babies came out of belly buttons cos that is what I was told.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"That children should be seen and not heard.

That when the news was on the telly it was customary to be silent.

That I could talk to animals.

That I was very probably swapped at birth "

silent when the news was on the telly! I'd

forgotten about that but it was exactly the same in our house

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By *andycandy88Woman
over a year ago

Northolt

Oh yeah as a child I thought really hating the taste of tomatoes meant I was allergic to it. I use to go around saying I was allergic to them.

As a toddler all I was called was gorgeous and once when I was out with my mum, I got asked what my name was and I said gorgeous loool mum was like oh dear no its not and had to correct me loool xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"My dad once told my haggis had 1 leg shorter than the other to run round the mountains better "

ah that's not true - we all know all their 5 legs are the same length!

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By *lice MaliceWoman
over a year ago

The Facility

Watching a children's film on TV I asked my Dad what vice versa meant and he replied saying that it was the other way around. I took him literally and spent a long time thinking it was versa vice

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By *andycandy88Woman
over a year ago

Northolt

"I believed that babies came out of belly buttons cos that is what I was told."

I just thought they did as a child because they are inside the belly lool xx

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

We had a tree in our back garden that was regularly covered in caterpillars

I thought it was a caterpillar tree, like, they actually grew on it.

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By *ebjonnsonMan
over a year ago

Maldon

I was a big fan of Danger Man. When I saw it was filmed at Shepperton Studios I cycled there as not too far from home hoping to see him come out at the end of the show so I could get his autograph. Didn’t realise it was recorded so missed an episode for fuck all.

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By *urchoicenowCouple
over a year ago

Ashford

I got hugely confused by the news talking about guerrilla warfare. Has visions of huge apes with guns

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I got hugely confused by the news talking about guerrilla warfare. Has visions of huge apes with guns"

this is brilliant

when my mum was little she believed that birds could stand on electricity lines because they all wore little rubber wellies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That I would grow, years later still the same height

Oh and also Santa.. sorry if I've just exposed it for anyone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I got hugely confused by the news talking about guerrilla warfare. Has visions of huge apes with guns"

So did I.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember when we to the beach and mum said "be careful there are really strong currents here"

I was hugely disappointed when I found out it wasn't actually very big and strong dried fruit

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"That I would grow, years later still the same height

Oh and also Santa.. sorry if I've just exposed it for anyone

what.

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By *he Mac LassWoman
over a year ago

Hefty Hideaway

If you step on a crack, you’ll break your back. Unfortunately it doesn’t stop you walking into things if you’re looking down on the pavement all the time.

Also eating crusts will make my hair curly. Lies.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If you step on a crack, you’ll break your back. Unfortunately it doesn’t stop you walking into things if you’re looking down on the pavement all the time.

Also eating crusts will make my hair curly. Lies. "

Or the bears would come and eat you.

That is pavements obviously not crusts and curls

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By *rMojoRisinMan
over a year ago

Sheffield

If I pulled a face I’d get, “ if the wind changes, you’ll stay like that!”

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"If you step on a crack, you’ll break your back. Unfortunately it doesn’t stop you walking into things if you’re looking down on the pavement all the time.

Also eating crusts will make my hair curly. Lies. "

eating crusts!! I had totally forgotten about that one too! I must've gone about 3 years at primary without eating crusts

who makes these things up?

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