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i used to believe - the childhood beliefs site

I Used To Believe is a funny and bizarre collection of ideas that adults thought were true when they were children. It will remind you what it was like to be a child, fascinated and horrified by the world in equal parts. The following pages will reassure you that the things you used to believe weren't so strange after all...

You can add your own to the site. If you think your beliefs were strange, check out our most common beliefs and discover that you're not alone!

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That eating carrots makes you ginger.

Austin (from body functions : eating)
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I used to believe the word shoes was spelled shouse. It looked right to me...

Shouse (from language : spelling)
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When I was child I used to believe that people who die become ghosts and could see you

Anon (from death : people)
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When I was a child, I used to believe that when there was a storm it was because God was angry.

Raul (from nature : weather)
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When I was a child, I used to believe clouds were cotton candy.

GloriousJin (from nature : weather)
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When I was a child I used to believe that my cat would die because he fell seven times.

Anon (from animals : cats and dogs)
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When I was a child, I used to believe that onions came from tangerines.

Anon (from food : general)
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When I was a child, I used to think that if I lied my nose would grow bigger.

Anon (from body parts : general)
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When I was a child, I used to believe that mannequins moved around and changed their clothes at night while the store was closed.

Anon (from neighbourhood : going shopping)
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When I was a child I used to belive that if I put on cardboard wings I could fly like a bird.

Anon (from animals : birds)
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When i was a child, i used to believe that astronauts when they went to space, they will live on the moon all the time.

Ayman (from grown-ups : work)
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When I was little I thought that if I fell into the toilet it would absorb me and take me through the sewers.


Anita Gutierrez (from at home : bathrooms)
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I used to think the word “racy” had something to do with racism. Specifically, I thought the word was to racism what “sexy” was to “sexism”.

Anon (from the world : nationalities)
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When I first read about the Cannes Film Festival, I thought "Cannes" was the name of a PERSON, rather than a city. I figured he was some famous director or something.

Anon (from media : films)
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I used to think that a "carnival barker" was a person who barks like a dog at a carnival.

Anon (from neighbourhood : excursions)
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In school we were having a party and the teacher asked me what I wanted to dress up as I said a fairy so I thought I would actually become a fairy🤣🤣🤣

Zimel (from make-believe : fairies)
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When I was five or six I thought that if I prayed to fly I would fly one day.

Zimel (from religion : prayers)
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I used to think that the lyric in Deck the Halls was "'tis the season tube-ey, jolly." Tube-ey as in another word for tubular.

Doing just Tubular (from music : misheard lyrics)
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i used to believe cotton was made up of cat's fur

Umme Hani (from animals : cats and dogs)
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I used to believe that catterpillar were the peas glued with each other

Umme Hani (from animals : creepy crawlies)
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