What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?
I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.
CitizenKong, I thought superheroes were real and all lived in New York. To be fair, it was my only contact with Western culture.
JudahBenHur, never been to times square? spiderman and thor are walking around and will take a photo with you for five bucks. the one thing people dont know is they have very thick foreign accents, which change depending on the day of the week for some reason
Hobo, That’s just their fake accent so they won’t reveal their secret identity.
robot_dog_with_gun, that adults are trustworthy
comrade_pibb, 
we really don’t know shit, it’s funny
kozel, That eggs are made in factories. I still haven’t made peace with this, and lurk around egg equivalents (I’m not vegan).
Also when I was in kindergarden, I had terrible idea about how the map of our village looks like.
Cethin, That’s not totally inaccurate. It’s factory farms and not a machine factory, but still a factory.
Azhad, I used to believe in God, that was super stupid looking back.
Azal, Parents told me if I could get salt on a birds tail I’d be able to catch it.
Pretty sure they told me that shit to at least increase the challenge of actually catching birds so I didn’t try to bring one in.
ekky43, Ayy shit, I come from a island hamlet where we catched live hares and sold them off. The islanders often told outsiders that “To catch a hare, one must sneak up behind it and stray some salt on its tail, after which one can simply grab it”.
I guess it makes sense to see this joke in the wild, but it never occurred to me that we weren’t the only ones using it.
Azal, Haha, wow. I was definitely from Arkansas so about as far from an island anyone is living on so yea it’s wild to think about how far it’s gone.
woobie, I thought that cars were powered by the jet propulsion coming from the exhaust pipe.
nudnyekscentryk, 
…are they not?
Dubious_Fart, Nope, much like politicians its just hot air and waste products serving no useful purpose.
Ilovethebomb, How did you think reverse worked?
woobie, I don’t think I thought that all the way through.
Krachsterben, Sucking in air. It definitely makes sense when you’re a kid lol
techgearwhips, Also, that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys.
Tagger, Nah, dogs are girls and cats are boys.
techgearwhips, Nah. Dogs always seemed like the more masculine creatures… and cats more feminine. Before I ever even knew what masculine or feminine meant.
rufus, feline - feminine
June, I’d like to throw my sample into this study:
Every dog in my house is a girl and every cat in my house is a boy.
sxan, 
This is a common one, and I want to know why.
constantokra, I mean, dogs have their junk just hanging down. Cats don’t. I’d guess that’s what it is.
techgearwhips, That the WWF was real
June, I have good news! The World Wildlife Fund IS real!
MeanEYE, 
My grandmother told me that lightning is attracted to hair so I wouldn’t go out during storms which I loved.
Tangent5280, aww star crossed lovers
vettnerk, That me parents didn’t have parents growing up. It somehow never dawned on me until I was like 7 that my grandparents were their parents, despite knowing my grandparents all my life.
ChaoticEntropy, That adult humans knew what they were doing and had things in hand.
June, I turn 40 in March and still have no idea what I’m doing. I just make it up as I go.
Hobo, Sucker! I have a whole 6 months to figure it all out before I turn 40. I’m a terrible procrastinator so I’ll probably just wait until the night before to start really working on it though.
June, Wait that’s less time than I have. I don’t think I’m the sucker, I think you are.
Hobo, Dang I misread it as I turned 40 in March. Guess I am the sucker!
June, Muahahaha! … ?
NotErisma, There are tiny people in casette tapes and they get tired if you play them for too long.
toototabon, 
Homer Simpson wrote The Odyssey. I didn’t know about any other Homer 🤷♂️
prd, “Why do you look like Caesar Romero?” “Because ju don’t know what Caesar Chavez looks like.”
EmoDuck, Now that I think about it, I don’t know of any Homer’s besides these two
thorbot, That god was real and he actually gave a fuck about me
sysadmin420, Naw, even then I had a feeling it was all a gaslight
ChaoticEntropy, I don’t think at any point in my childhood I took anything religious seriously. I believed in Santa longer than I believed in god.
June, envy
psion1369, When I was young, my mom told me that Dad went to work too make money. In my head, I had envisioned him going to an office and running machines that made coins. Imagine my disappointment when I got to visit him at work and there were no coin making machines.
ChaoticEntropy, You were crushed that your father wasn’t a money counterfeiter.
theterrasque,
TrueStoryBob, My parents work at the job factory and make taxes!
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