People Reveal Weird Childhood Beliefs

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Dec 28, 2020 3:00 PM EST

As children, we form our views and ideas of the world based on the information we receive. Or, more realistically, on what we extrapolate from the truth, which is usually total nonsense.  Then, we grow up, learn more about the world and how it works, and realize that what we used to believe was just not true. But it's fun to look back and remember the bizarre things we used to think before we learned the real ways of the world. A Twitter thread started by writer Kristin Arnett has sparked people to reveal the utterly ridiculous things they believed as kids before the ugly truth set in.

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    Text - Kristen Arnett @Kristen_Arnett what's something extremely bizarre you believed as a very young child? i definitely thought that any cheese that had holes in it was caused by mice who lived inside it 2:50 AM Dec 20, 2020 - Twitter for iPhone 467 Retweets 1.6K Quote Tweets 13.1K Likes
    via @Kristen_Arnett
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    Branch - kathleen patterson @katiemarie1042 Replying to @Kristen_Arnett I interpreted the following sign to mean bridge freezes in front of road. I drove really carefully right before I got onto a bridge for years before I understood it. BRIDGE ICES BEFOR ROAD 8:33 PM Dec 20, 2020 · Twitter for Android
    via @katiemarie1042
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    Transport - Dina Davis @DinaJDavis Replying to @Kristen_Arnett My mom convinced me that the steel mill in our town was the factory where clouds were made and that's why there was always a big cloud above it. CITE Contingous (USS Cairton Works 4:49 AM Dec 20, 2020 Twitter for Android >
    via @DinaJDavis
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    Text - Moose Friend @sarahthemoose Replying to @Kristen Arnett My dad told me the appendix was an organ our cavemen ancestors needed to hold rocks to grind up their food I was TWENTY TWO about to go in for emergency surgery, crying "I've never even eaten any rocks" when the ER docs had a good laugh at me 5:08 PM · Dec 20, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone >
    via @sarahthemoose
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    Text - Scott @wskinne3 Replying to @Kristen_Arnett I thought lobsters/crabs/various pinchy crustations came out from under my bed at night so I couldn't get out of bed or they would attack me 12:52 AM Dec 21, 2020 Twitter for Android
    via @wskinne3
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    Text - Heether @hbirddog Replying to @Kristen_Arnett I thought when people got married the wife automatically became pregnant. Possibly because the music teacher wrote a play for 4th grade every year and in every single one the prince and princess got married and the next scene was them with a baby a year later. 8:25 PM Dec 20, 2020 - Twitter Web App
    via @hbirddog
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    Text - Hope Dewell Gentry @HopeDewell Replying to @Kristen_Arnett I thought I would eventually come into the possession of my grandparents' jeans like some sort of heirloom, and they would make me act a certain way. "You don't like hugs? You must get that from your grandma's genes." To which I angrily replied "But I'm not even wearing jeans!!" 9:18 AM Dec 21, 2020 · Twitter for Android >
    via @HopeDewell
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    Text - Jenya Cassidy @oneunionmom Replying to @Kristen_Arnett I believed that Santa went up to Heaven to get a special blessing/magic dust from God so he could fly all over the planet in one night to give out presents (and I had atheist parents - no way did they put this in my head). 6:22 AM Dec 20, 2020 - Twitter Web App >
    via @oneunionmom
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    Text - Sarah Rupke @Yikesabe Replying to @Kristen_Arnett I thought when planes "lost luggage" it was falling out of the plane during the flight. Why else could luggage never be found? Finally asked cuz tons of planes went over my neighborhood and no luggage was ever in our yard. O Still a family joke today and brother is a pilot 4:38 PM Dec 20, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @Yikesabe
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    Text - Kerith Stevens @hey_kerith Replying to @Kristen_Arnett I thought drinking and driving meant any kind of drink and I was really disturbed that my mom would drink Diet Coke in the car. 7:19 AM Dec 20, 2020 Twitter Web App
    via @hey_kerith
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    Text - sam junipero @retconning Replying to @Kristen Arnett I thought that the radio you heard in the car was based on where you were on the road. So the car in front of us (if they were listening to the same station) would be farther along in the same song. 2:53 AM Dec 20, 2020 · Twitter for Android
    via @retconning
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    Text - Jiffylush @Jiffylush Replying to @Kristen_Arnett I thought that the world used to be black and white, that at some point color started to exist which explained black and white pictures and shows. 3:32 AM Dec 21, 2020 · Twitter for Android
    via @Jiffylush

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