MISTAKEN BELIEFS AS A CHILD

(November, 2023) Reddit asked, “What was ‘younger you’ hilariously wrong about?” Some of the responses:
– “I was at least 10 when I learned it was Valentines day and not ValenTIMES day.”
– “I was into my mid 30s before I knew string cheese could be pulled apart.”
– “There was a very short period where I was 100% certain everybody but me could see their own faces and I was very upset by this.”
– “I thought the opening words to the Star Spangled Banner were Oh Satan you see.”
– “I thought Grilled cheese sandwich was called ‘girl cheese sandwich’ I thought they were only for girls and I’d complain when my brother got one.”
– “When I was 5 I saw a a few black and white television shows on late night TV. I was convinced for about 3 years when these shows were produced in the early 50s the world just didn’t have color.”
– “Around middle school, I didn’t know how the whole ‘prank’ of TPing ones’ house was done or how to start it. I thought it was so cool and hilarious to me. So one day after school, I ran home excited and started TPing my own house. My mom screamed at me.”
– “I always thought the handicap symbol of someone in a wheelchair was someone on the toilet. I’d point at the sign and sincerely asked my mom ‘why can you pee there?'”
– “I used to think actors die for real on tv and that i can stop them from dying if i switch the channel.”
– “For a while I thought that all music was performed live. I would carefully rotate albums ‘to give the singers a break.’”
– “On products , it says ‘serve chilled.’ I thought that it was ‘serve child.'”
* PHONE TOPIC: What was something you believed that you later discovered you were totally wrong about?