Misconceptions you had when you were younger or as a child.

[Mormel]

I thought the D in the Disney logo was a backwards G.

I thought the 'y' was a 'p', and was wondering why they spelled it as 'Disnep', when they pronounced it 'Disney'.

[Lax]

What misconceptions did you guys have when y'all were younger or as a child?

I thought all asians knew marital arts.

I thought life was always fair.

I thought the tooth fairy was real.

I thought wrestling was real.

I thought nobody hated Christians.

I thought honesty was always the best policy.

I thought if you got something in your eye and didn't get it out, it could move to the back of your eyeball and stay there forever.

[dupersuper]

I thought, watching all those "very special episodes" of sitcoms, that since adults knew of all these problems (climate change, homelessness, chronic fatigue syndrome...) they'd be fixed by now.

I thought nobody hated Christians.

I don't hate Christians, I hate Christianity (and religion in general).

[Lax]

I don't hate Christians, I hate Christianity (and religion in general).

I know better.

[Pinsir]

I don't hate Christians, I hate Christianity (and religion in general).

I'm not religious either, but religion does have a role in civilization. If it didn't it would not exist.

The only misconception I ever had was that Santa existed. Pissed me off when I found out my parents had 'lied.' If I have kids I'm going to not do Santa at all.

[Selena Musić]

I thought you could easily get serious diseases that can completely badly affect on your life by not washing your hands regulary. I was so scared of every kind of filth, because I thought there were living small worms whom you eat along the food you ate with filthy hands.

[Hanson724]

I thought god,santa,the easter bunny and the tooth fairy were real
I thought if you ate watermelon seeds they would grow in your stomach

[Ebon]

When I was 7 or 8 for some reason I became briefly convinced that the TV saved all the stuff on it when you turned it off (when I was this age, there was no such thing as a home recording device), and would pick back up where you left off when you turned it back on. It took only a couple of missed shows before I realized this was wrong.

At 15, I was convinced we'd have a stage-3 O'Neil Colony by now.

[Puppetmaker Grae]

When I was very small I wasn't entirely aware of the difference between TV programs and commercials, so for quite a while I thought that the Man from Milk Tray adverts were episodes of an action/spy series. Very short episodes, repeated very, very often...

[Don C]

When I was maybe 10 or 11, my family drove past a bar with "Go-Gos" on their sign. I thought it was the band and asked if we could go see them.

[Pharozonk]

The only misconception I ever had was that Santa existed. Pissed me off when I found out my parents had 'lied.' If I have kids I'm going to not do Santa at all.

Wouldn't they find out about Santa from their friends and the media anyway?

[dupersuper]

I know better.

*sigh* Of course you do...

I'm not religious either, but religion does have a role in civilization. If it didn't it would not exist.

Any role it may have had is long done with.

[Mikekerr3]

I'm not religious either, but religion does have a role in civilization. If it didn't it would not exist.

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The question is is it a positive of negative role, avarice, jealousy, bigotry and Murder have longstanding roles in civilization also, do we praise them?

[indigim25]

When I saw mountains far far away, I thought it was Everest x)