18 People Share The Hysterical Childhood Beliefs They Didn't Realize Were False Until MUCH Later, And I Laughed So Hard, I Snorted

Whether they're thing we were told oregon a story we invented connected our own, we each person weird beliefs arsenic kids. However, astir of america yet recognize however silly our misconceptions were — adjacent if it takes america until adulthood...

That's why, erstwhile I wrote an article respective months agone successful which radical revealed the hilarious puerility beliefs they held into adulthood, members of the BuzzFeed Community shared immoderate of their ain misconceptions, and these were excessively bully to support to myself. Without further ado, present are 18 of their champion responses:

If you believed a puerility misconception into your teens, 20s, 30s, oregon beyond, consciousness escaped to archer america successful the comments oregon reply utilizing this anonymous form!

1. "I thought that pushing the buttons connected brushed portion lids made the portion 'diet' oregon 'cola,' etc., arsenic successful thing nether the lid would physically spray a chemic into the portion erstwhile you pressed the button."

2. "I was 37 erstwhile I recovered retired that RIP connected a gravestone means 'Rest successful Peace.' My parent ever said it meant 'Really Important Person.'"

"My girl asked maine what it meant portion we passed a cemetery. When I told her, my hubby astir choked portion correcting me."

—Anonymous, 51 Victoria, B.C.

3. "Until I was 18 oregon 19, I thought Gotham City was a existent spot — I didn't deliberation Batman oregon Joker were real, conscionable Gotham City. Mind you, I had ne'er traveled extracurricular of my hometown."

"It wasn’t until I got a occupation with older adults who informed maine that Gotham City was so not a existent spot and I could not visit."

—Anonymous, 42, CA

4. "When I was a kid, my ma would consciousness my forehead and say, 'It’s warm, you person a sleepy head.' As an adult, astir instinctively, I would consciousness my ain forehead, and if it felt a small warmer than normal, I knew I needed to instrumentality a nap."

5. "I believed leopards gave you leprosy and that if you got astir them, you would extremity up looking similar a leopard."

"This explained to maine wherefore the radical with leprosy successful TV and movies wore rags — obviously, they wanted to screen their leopard spots!"

—Anonymous, 30, FL

6. "When I was a pre-teen, my household moved from Texas to bluish Michigan. I retrieve that erstwhile we rode successful a car precocious astatine night, driving northbound connected I-75, I could ever spot lights successful the entity ahead, and I conscionable assumed they were from a metropolis up ahead."

"It wasn’t until I was successful my precocious 30s, riding with a person precocious 1 night, that I commented that we ever spot the lights but ne'er look to get to the city.

My person looked confused for a moment, past started laughing and said, 'Those are the bluish lights you’re seeing. There is nary city.'"

—Anonymous

7. "In kindergarten, I had a favored parakeet. One day, I came location from schoolhouse and was told that my vertebrate had 'left' to beryllium with his mother. About a period later, conjecture who came backmost to us? Mom told maine that helium had conscionable flown successful done the model that morning. I asked Mom wherefore helium wasn’t talking due to the fact that earlier helium left, helium had a beauteous bully vocabulary, and she explained that helium astir apt forgot it all."

8. "I utilized to judge that radical could lone person kids if they some truly wanted them and besides if the 'Greater Love' (my mom’s word for God) agreed arsenic well."

"Babies were made similar this: some individuals buss with the volition of having a baby, and if the greater emotion agrees, past a fertilized ovum appears successful the uterus. 

I was a analyzable child."

—Anonymous

9. "My household called luncheon ladies oregon cafeteria workers ‘cafeterians’ arsenic a kid."

"I was 26 earlier I realized that wasn’t a existent term, but I inactive basal by the information that it sounds much professional."

—Anonymous, 34, OK

10. "When I was little, my parents told maine the communicative of their car being stolen. After the kid who stole it crashed and totaled it, helium ran into an alley. They told maine that the constabulary lone saw him due to the fact that helium enactment connected ChapStick portion hiding."

11. "Growing up, I believed that pickles were thing you grew. I didn't cognize they were fermented cucumbers!"

"I was 22 erstwhile I learned the mistake of my thinking."

—Anonymous

12. "I grew up connected the coast, wherever the onshore was each flat. As a tiny child, erstwhile we would spell to the mountains, my dada would archer maine that cows person 2 legs that are longer than the other, truthful they tin basal up consecutive connected the broadside of a mountain."

"It took maine a mates of years to yet inquire what happens erstwhile they crook around. My dada laughed and asked, 'What took you truthful agelong to fig that out?'"

—Anonymous, 76, NC

13. "I person 3 older brothers. While I was increasing up, my ma said if I saw a bare man, I would get a stye successful my eye. I made definite I ne'er saw my brothers similar that and would ever crook my caput and adjacent my eyes if determination was a distant accidental they mightiness beryllium naked."

14. "When I was increasing up, I thought trains lone ran successful the aboriginal greeting oregon precocious evening, ne'er during the day."

"It wasn't until I was successful my precocious teens and moved from a tiny municipality successful Arkansas to a large metropolis successful the subject that I recovered otherwise.

Boy, did I consciousness ashamed erstwhile I told that story!"

—Anonymous, 37, CO

15. "When I was increasing up, my parent told maine that cocoa beverage made you constipated."

"Then had the audacity to archer maine arsenic an ADULT that it was the lone mode to marque maine halt drinking each the beverage successful the house."

—Anonymous, 58, FL

16. "Not adulthood, but astatine slightest into my aboriginal teens, I thought that each of the philharmonic groups that had songs played connected the vigor were really playing 'live' astatine the vigor station!"

17. "My grandma utilized to archer maine that if you wanted to beryllium capable to spot successful the dark, you had to devour carrots."

"It's lone been a mates of years since I discovered that no, carrots don’t person a peculiar vitamin that enables nighttime vision."

—Anonymous, 45, Canada

18. "Okay, truthful I’m the 1 who 'lied' to my kids: When they were toddlers, they understood that chickenhearted nutrient came from chickens and beef came from cows. So I jokingly followed it up by telling them that blistery dogs are made from dogs."

Which 1 of these beliefs was your favorite? What was a puerility misconception you believed for a hilariously agelong time? Tell america successful the comments oregon reply anonymously utilizing the signifier below!

Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.