Meirl
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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That I would understand everything as an adult. I actually think I understand less.
Sound attracted lightning. I was TERRIFIED of lightning and thunder as a child. I would cry and my brother felt that if he told me my crying attracted lightning, I’d shut up or stop crying. I was quiet but I’d get under my blankets and cry as quietly as I could, terrified every time I heard thunder.
Turns out that’s not true. Still terrified of it.
I was born into a colour world, parents grew up in black in white.
/r/kidsarefuckingstupid
I thought clouds were the ghosts of dinosaurs
I believed that my parents treated me like shit only because I didn’t contribute enough at home
Eating seeds of fruits will cause the plant to grow in your stomach.
Swallowing gums will result in them sticking to stomach walls.
Thinking I’m handsome because grandma said so.
I believed that if you buried Sesame Seeds off of Big Mac’s from McDonald’s, that Sesame Seed Buns would grow.
I used to pull the blanket up to my neck because in my mind vampires can’t suck your blood if your neck was covered. I guess I can’t say used to I still do that, but more because I’m just used to it now.
I believed that if I really excelled in school and extracurricular activities that my parents would love me.
I planted a penny thinking a money tree would grow.
I thought the signs that said ‘No Outlet’ meant that once you went down that particular street you weren’t allowed to come out. I theorized in my brain that people could potentially sneak out, but it wound be difficult.
the logic is pretty sound for a little kid
I got a big splinter in my foot when I was 4 and I kept pulling away when my dad tried to pull it out with tweezers, because it hurt. My older sister leaned over and whispered to me me that if I didn’t let my dad pull it out, the splinter would sink into my skin and go straight to my heart, pierce it, and then I would die.
I immediately believed her and let my dad pull the splinter out – and that was how I thought splinters worked for ages 😭😂
Sounds like when people thought maggots just appeared on dead things out of nowhere.
I genuinely believed one day we’d all break out in song and choreographed dance numbers we just ~knew~
My sister swore that root beer was just beer with a little root in it. I honestly believed that if I drank too much I would get drunk.
I thought factories made clouds. Made sense at the time
When I was 4, my mom was pregnant with my sister. When I asked if I could have one of the locally-made biscotti my mom had bought, she told me they were only allowed for pregnant women.
I was later very upset when I saw my then-stepdad happily gnawing on one, because I didn’t want my sister’s dad to be a criminal.
When I was in my early to mid teens, I absolutely *loathed* the concept of the unreliable narrator. I understood it just fine, but I refused to engage with fiction on any level other than “what we’re being told on the surface is the truth.”
Fortunately I pulled my head out of my ass at some point.
When I was kid and played freeze tag….I would stand in place and shiver like I was freezing.
That if i study hard and work hard i can achieve my goals.
There was an abandoned house on the end of our street, with a big overgrown garden that I liked to poke around when I was little, especially when I was walking by on my way home from school. My older sister was rushing home one day and annoyed with having to pull me along, so she told me that a witch lived there and if I hung around too long she would grab me and “barbecue” me 😭☠️
You better believe I SPRINTED past that house for YEARS after that. It just became a habit even when I was way too old to still believe that. I distinctly remember one day when I was like nine thinking wait hang on a second…
I believed in magic and fairies etc.. But I believed they were only in the UK and Ireland which is why I couldn’t see them in the U.S. But they were around just on different continents. I also thought I could possibly draw my way into the unseen realms by drawing doors and then placing them outside in the backyard near various trees.
Causation != correlation
I thought that if a monster tried to come get me then my stuffies would turn into big protectors and keep the monsters from hurting me. My beanie boo lion was my #1 protector 🙂
I thought the sun and moon were the same thing.
I thought the sun turned into the moon when it got dark.
I thought astronauts could only be there for hours because they needed to leave before the moon changed or they’d die.
Dad told me to not scratch a bug bite bc it was from a spider that had laid eggs under my skin and if I itch it the eggs would hatch.
Trauma. But looking back, funny as hell.
I believed people were born the age they were when I was 5. Old people had always been old. Parents had always been parent-aged.
I couldn’t sleep with anything on my chest (physically) I believed if it was heavy enough it would make my heart stop and therefore I would die…
Being afraid to eat watermelon seeds because then they’ed grow inside me just like uncle jack.
Wasn’t this the theory of spontaneous generation pushed by the Ancient Greeks?
Sounds like the experiment to prove that flies came out of rotting meat
You weren’t wrong about the seed bit, just a different seed and a totally different mechanism.
this is actually the exact logic that ancient scientists used to prove that flies appeared in nature by spontaneously generating around dead meat
I thought that hummingbirds didn’t have legs.
Sunglasses were meant for looking directly at the sun. I still hold that it’s a misnomer.
My Mom has a giant tree in her front yard with a large hole in the trunk. I was convinced the tree would die if I didn’t “feed” it. I would dump a bunch of yard waste and wooden floor polish in the tree’s mouth every few days.
My dad used to tell me (back when I was very little) that the wind would blow me away if I wasn’t careful. This was after we watched a dust devil take my kids meal out of my hands and send it to the sky somewhere. I live in a fairly windy place, and I’m still a small person. The wind definitely pushes me around from time to time even now haha
If you didn’t wash behind your ears, potatoes would grow.
Omg similar story.
After watching Casper I started leaving a bowl of water out for ghosts.
And wouldn’t you know it, the liquid level was lower in the morning so clearly they appreciated.
I believed it would get better with time. It has only gotten worse, but I have become increasingly more numb. In a sense, it therefore did get better, but not because of it– only because of me.
I also believed that I would be tortured eternally after I died, and that I was the manifestation of some primordial evil. But that’s pretty standard (for people in my culture who can’t conform like the rest).
I thought someone somewhere cared about me lol
I thought that adults did the jobs they were best at. I was weong
That eating fruit seeds would grow them inside your stomach.
When I’d lay my head on the pillow, I thought I could see through it. Because one eye was below the cover and one above. So seeing both at once gave the allusion of transparency!