Dumbest Thing You Believed

[cyclones500]

When I was little (really little) I assumed that all that music on the radio came from live bands at the radio station.

Somewhat similar to that, when I was super-young, I thought DJ's were tiny people inside the radio. I don't know if I thought of the actual music the same way, because I already was heavy into listening to records.

Also, I probably didn't REALLY believed they were little people inside the box, but it "sounded" that way.

 

[clonedude]

Noah’s Ark

 

[1SEIACLONE]

People lived with dinosaurs, and they were all busy and somehow missed Noah's Ark, or new idea that they were on the Ark, and the few that survived on the Ark, quickly died off. Totally ignoring that there are no fossils of dinosaurs living after the 66 million years ago mark.

 

[iastatefan1]

I was about 30 when I learned that not everybody has tinnitus. I always just assumed everyone hears tones in their head.

About 30 when I learned that not everyone sees streaks of light coming out of lightbulbs at night like I do. Only people with untreated astigmatism.

 

[ricochet]

About 30 when I learned that not everyone sees streaks of light coming out of lightbulbs at night like I do. Only people with untreated astigmatism.

Don't remember when it was, but mine along these lines was that bright sunlight doesn't make everyone sneeze.

 

[AJB29]

That the mainstream media was honest

 

[NWICY]

Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were just on a little Creatine.

That was a fun yr though.

 

[clones_jer]

for a large chunk of my childhood I really thought wars were only in the past, like they were really bad, but they didn't happen anymore.
I clearly remember being pretty shocked to find out about the Iraq war in grade school, I definitely had some cognitive dissonance trying to reconcile that.

 

[nfrine]

That NIL and the transfer portal were good for college sports...

 

[clonedude]

That politicians cared about us, and not just their own well being and greed. Wouldn’t that be amazing though, if that actually was true.

 

[Cydewayz]

When I watched a biographical type of movie when I was little, I was puzzled how a camera crew knew to film their life/knew they'd have success later. So I would always secretly hope I was being filmed and I didn't know it wanting to be famous/important when I got old.

 

[PrimeCy]

Don't remember when it was, but mine along these lines was that bright sunlight doesn't make everyone sneeze.

I always believed that too. Then someone told me it has something to do with your eye color, but I don't know if that's true.

 

[CyCoug]

I always believed that too. Then someone told me it has something to do with your eye color, but I don't know if that's true.

Whether or not it’s true, I choose to believe it.

 

[MeanDean]

Somewhat similar to that, when I was super-young, I thought DJ's were tiny people inside the radio. I don't know if I thought of the actual music the same way, because I already was heavy into listening to records.

Also, I probably didn't REALLY believed they were little people inside the box, but it "sounded" that way.

For most of my youth I didn't differentiate between local media/personalities/events and national/international. They were all equally famous, and a long ways away somewhere. And things happened there. Not like in my boring little farm town 3 miles away from our home/farm.

 

[MeanDean]

When I watched a biographical type of movie when I was little, I was puzzled how a camera crew knew to film their life/knew they'd have success later. So I would always secretly hope I was being filmed and I didn't know it wanting to be famous/important when I got old.

I had this mindset that they knew their fate and it was never in doubt. I figured Columbus knew he would be discovering America and the George Washington knew he'd defeat the Brits and become president. And that all Americans knew we'd be on the winning side of WWI and WWII.

I remember thinking how stupid it was that people on the West Coast were worried about the Japanese invading. Then after 9/11 and we all waited for the next immediate major attack I finally "got it."

It came to me like a bolt of lightening that it was all just them living their lives and taking it as it came.

 

[MeadForMyHorses]

for a large chunk of my childhood I really thought wars were only in the past, like they were really bad, but they didn't happen anymore.
I clearly remember being pretty shocked to find out about the Iraq war in grade school, I definitely had some cognitive dissonance trying to reconcile that.

Funny, I grew up during the Viet Nam era, From my earliest recollection, we were in this never ending war, which I assumed I'd be a part of someday. Thankfully, it ended when I was a teen.

That probably doesn't offset the scars of growing up with the constant threat of nuclear destruction being an almost foregone conclusion in the 60s.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Courtesy of my dad and brother convincing me, chocolate milk came from Brown Swiss cows.

I was guilty of this one as kid too.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

I always have wondered how "motivated" somebody would have to be to sabotage treats to that extreme.

For anyone who has attempted to hide a Norelco rotary inside a caramel(ed) apple, you know what I mean.

The Halloween candy fear is because of Ronald Clark O'Bryan case. He put cyanide in pixy Stix to end his kids lives for the insurance money.

 

[cowgirl836]

That my Dad would get pulled over if I turned on the dome light in the car at night while the car was moving.

Are you my brother????

 

[ISUTex]

That god would send me to hell if I masturbated but saying 50 Hail Mary's made it all better.

Hopefully you waited until you were done to say the Hail Mary's.