28 Things You Completely Misunderstood As A Child

All children believe charmingly dumb things
28 Things You Completely Misunderstood As A Child

There’s a lot of crazy stuff happening around the world right now. But if there’s anything we, as Americans, can agree on, it’s this: Nazis are bad, and all children believe charmingly dumb things. This is an article about the latter.

I BELIEVED THAT MOTHS WERE BUTTERFLIES AT NIGHT. MY OLDER SISTER CONVINCED ME THAT BUTTERFLIES ONLY HAVE THEIR COLORS DURING THE DAY, AND THAT MOTHS A
I thought that Your boss if YOu got would fired fro literally set YOUr job yOu o11 fire
Ithoughtthat when the moon appearedduringtheday... CRAGN It wasn't the actual moono It just its reflection was the blue on sky while it was on ntheoth
Myfriendsandlu to believethatl it was possibleto generate the Spirit Bomb like in Dragon Ballz. We'd form a circle, raise both handsinthe air, and ]wa
NDO When my parents bought their first house, I was under the impression that the purchase would include all the belongings of the previous owners, in
AS A KID, 0 THOUGHT ALL DOGS WERE MALE AND ALL CATS WERE FEMALE.
My parents told me not to accept candy or toys from strangers because a lot of kids were taken away from their homes that way. 5' NORTH POLE POLICE DE
E believed that if someone caught me watching an R-rated movie, I'd go to jail. GOTO JAIL
28 Things You Completely Misunderstood As A Child
Iie OLA SLEET C I THOUGHT A BLACK MARKET LOOKED LIKED A FLEA MARKET SECRETLY SET UP SOMEWHERE WHERE YOU COULD BUY ALL SORTS OF STOLEN GOODS AND MILITA
As a child, I believed that when bats were flying around at dusk, you must go inside because they would fly into your hair and get stuck, FOREVER! The
As a child, when I heard that NHL training camps had started, I thought the players all went camping in the woods and practiced hockey on frozen ponds
CRACKED I THOUGHT BLACK AND WHITE FILMS CAME FROM A TIME WHEN COLORS WEREN'T INVENTED YET.
I SAW MY DOG TAKE HER PUPPIES OUT OF A HOLE IN THE BACKYARD. FROM THEN ON, I THOUGHT DOGS DUG AROUND THE DIRT TO FIND THEIR BABIES.
I believed if I swallowed chewing gum, it would get stuck in my guts forever.
I used to think every store had a room where someone was playing the music over the intercom. I actually thought this until I 2 got a job in a grocery
28 Things You Completely Misunderstood As A Child
I thought there GRACNEDON was something wrong with me because I couldn't pop my teeth out the way my grandmother could.
thougrht every single book was produced Jmanually lby haund. 0 even imaginec school where a they talugrht studeints how to write perfectly.
I was twelve when mY school first warned us kids about a new drug called crack. A friend of mine told me that it was called crack because people w
28 Things You Completely Misunderstood As A Child
0 thought if you didn't have a birthday party, you would stay the same ageo PP GYPT TT CRAGKEDCOMT
CRACKEDGON For some reason I thought when my cat died she would be human. I remember saying I couldn't wait for her to die SO we could be best friends
CRACKED.CON I thought that contact lenses were tiny telescopes fitted through the pupil once your vision became too poor to be corrected with eyeglass
3-year-old me thought that mountains and hills were made of... DEAD DINOSAURS.
CRACKED COM A friend told me that nothing was faster than the speed of light. I tested the theory by fipping on the lights and running to the couch be
I used to think clouds on a mountaintopl meant that GRAGKED-COM the government, the aliens and the angels were all having one big meeting... ...and di
AS A KID, I HONESTLY THOUGHT ELTON JOHN AND DR. OCTOPUS WERE THE SAME PERSON

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