What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?

I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.

I thought adults actually knew what the hell they were doing.

I always had a suspicion but when I became an adult it was so much worse than I thought

Hahah no, there’s nobody driving the bus

Perhaps we should enlist some bus drivers

The call is coming from inside the bus 👻

I thought that when the clerk at the checkout asked, “would you like cash back?” That you could say yes and they would just give you cash straight out of the register for nothing lol.

I figured that most people were very honest and didn’t need the money, so they would just say no thanks and leave it in the register for somebody who really did need it.

Similarly, I thought one could get more money by asking for change. You give one bill, you get more bills and coins in return, it’s gotta be more, right?

Aww that’s adorable 🤣

I thought grownups got paid every day and “pay day” was just a special day when you got more money.

So many things…

I didn’t understand how lie detectors were supposed to work so I thought you could hook someone up and ask something like “does god exist” and you’d be able to get answers to all of life’s big mysteries.

I thought there was a left and right sock

I thought wolverines were mythical creatures

I thought if I tried hard enough I could somehow become older than my older brother like it was just a title or something

Thanks to DARE any time I saw a skittle with the S missing I thought it was drugs even in a newly opened package

I could go on…

I wanted an older sibling as a child and I remember trying to convince my parents they should have another baby. In my mind, if I just waited (my age +1) years, I’d then have an older sibling. It never ocurred to me that I would also age during that time…

I’m surprised an older sibling was something you wanted, usually you want to be the oldest.

In my case I just wanted a friend lmao

I was an only child and I just wanted someone cool to play with me who I could look up to. Also all my older cousins picked on me and I wanted defence lol

Your comment about your brother reminds me that in kindergarten I thought that the line order (alphabetical) had something to do with status. My last name starts with C so I was pretty close to the front, but I had a friend with an A for a last name, so I really wanted to move up.

I told no one of this of course until long after I’d grasped how alphabetical ordering worked myself.

The alphabet is in that order because of the song.

If your feet are big enough, left and right socks are indeed a thing

My feet are normalish (well, far too wide but normal length) and my running socks are left and right.

Wide is big. I’d argue that the width is the more relevant dimension.

TIL; wolverine is an actual fuckin’ animal!!!

I hope you’re about 25 because this is basically how I found out lol

My son was PISSED when I explained how his older sister would, in fact, always be older. He was sure he’d catch up.

You can buy socks that have a left and right, but most don’t.

For example for sport and hiking. Those have support structures that need to work differently for the side they are worn on.

And some brands (Polo) put a logo on alternating sides.

I remember thinking that women gave birth to girls and men gave birth to boys, and being really worried because I (as a guy) didn’t want to give birth.

I’m seeing several posts that are startling evidence for the essential nature of proper sex education, lol.

Well, this was when I was like 6 or so; I can’t fault the school system.

I thought older girls went to bed one night then the next morning they had boobs

Slightly related: all dogs are bots and all cats are girls

all dogs are bots

That’s birds.

Sorry. All dogs are birds.

No silly, birds aren’t real /hj

Wonder how the world population would look like if this was true

I thought CEOs worked super hard

there are people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, etc who still believe this

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