When I was maybe 7, all of us kids from the neighborhood were outside playing. (I know, weird huh?)

Well anyway, there we were playing and my friends’ older sister started freaking out, screaming and crying, then she ran home calling for her mother. She was wearing a bathing suit and we could see that she was bleeding….one of the other girls told us that had gotten her first period and was just scared.

My friend looks over to me and says “I don’t blame her; my dad is going to kill her for getting pregnant.”

…yes we actually did think that having your period meant that you “were” pregnant.


what things did you believe as a kid, that later turned out to be untrue?

They only thing I remember right off was "monsters under the bed".

My brother used to tell me if I got out of bed in the middle of the night to use the bathroom they would grab my legs and pull me under. I was about 5 or 6 - and also went through a short bedwetting period.

My brother told me that if you kissed a boy and he stuck his tongue in your mouth you'd be pregnant. I believed him - I was maybe 8 or 9

Loved the story Kev,,,

Okay here goes,, I was 5 years old and Mom told my brother and me who was 7 that if we were not good that she could return us to the Sears & Roebucks catalog,, and yes she should us pics of all the good kids,,, needless to say,, the Wrath of Mum one,, and until we caught on,, a few years later, we were the best kids on the block


That did not work so well when I had my kids

I was about 7 or 8 when Jaws came out in the movies and my brother told me if I stretched my legs out while I was in bed, a shark would eat my legs

that if you step on a crack, you brake your mother's back,
that if you made that face, it would stay that way,
that mothers have eyes behind their heads,
that big boys don't cry,
that the chupacabra is a myth.

With the short amount of replies, I can already see that brothers are total azzzholes!!!

I used to think "Don't Drink and Drive" meant not drinking anything while you are driving. I got on my parents case about it...and they were simply drinking soda. I don't know how old I was.

Not me exactly, but I was driving and my son was in his carseat and acting up - told him to behave or I'd trade him in on a Cocker Spaniel. He burst into tears and I had to pull over to reassure him I was kidding.

OMG monsters under the bed had me going until well a few years ago...

I'll tell you a weird one -- when I was a really little kid (maybe about 3), I noticed that whenever there was a story on the TV news about somebody dying, they always said their age as a whole number -- "Mr. Jones was 79" or whatever. I figured that since no one ever died at 78 1/2 or 78 2/3, this meant people could only die on their birthday.

This turned out not to be the case.

i always thought i was adopted.

my dad always joked that drinking coffee would put hair on your chest...

one day curiosity got the best of me. he left the room and i decided that i was going to take a drink to see what would happen.
i burnt "THEEE CRAP" out of my tongue. you know that feeling, right? well for two days i thought i was growing hair on my tongue!

Hopefully "monsters" turned to cabana boys!

Ohhhhhh yes......

if i dont stop making those faces i would stay that way

My brother convinced me we had a homeless woman living in the attic that could communicate telepathically with him

I believed all people were good deep down, that this planet was an inherently safe place, and that all meat came from animals that weren't tortured

=/

plants would grow from inside of you if you swallowed seeds.

Oh, and my sister and her friend convinced me using a Ouija Board, that I was going to be brutally murdered...

Then they burst out laughing when I started to tear up...

Grabbed a butcher knife and chased em around the house...

"Who's gunna be murdered now, *****?!"

heh...

I was like... 5/6