When I was 3 or 4, (now I am 21) my mom bought me three goldfish. She asked me to name them. Mind you, I have never even heard of the TV show Full House. I named them Michelle, Stephanie, and Diana because I liked those names. OK, so Diana isn't DJ, but it's close enough, right? I find that sort of weird.
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I thought that snails were created when it rained somehow as I only saw them when it rained.. I thought they came out of the sky.
My sister's friend thought cats were just small dogs when she was younger.
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When was 5-6 I used to think that leather was made from hippo skin.
When i was younger i believed that a cat was a girl and dogs were boys.
when i was about 4 my dad told me we were going to get a new dog, when i asked what color it was he said this dog has lots of different colors,so i imagined a dog with all sorts of different colors like paint splats covering him like reds, greens, and blues and stuff, i was bragging to all my friends "I'm gunna get a rainbow dog!"when we picked him up he just looked like a regular dog (he was a black, brown and white shelty)
My sister used to love dogs. When she was about 5 she asked my dad what a female dog was called. He said 'bitch'. From then on, whenever someone asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, she answered 'a bitch'.
If you tire of your popsicle (or ice cream cone) just leave it in the yard and deers will eat it for you overnight while you sleep; but clean up the litter the next day or they'll never stop by ever again! I believed my dad for the longest time..
i used to believe that dragonflies sewed your fingers together and then sucked your blood
I used to believe that dogs' tongues were made from ham, so if the dog was hot, i'd sit there trying to bite it for hours, timing my rhythm. I stopped believing this when I managed to catch it arround 7 years old. It didn't taste like ham, which I way very disappointed about.
I believed, thanks to my uncle, that if you put salt on a birds tail you could catch it.
I spent two years (ages 6-8) attempting this..while everyone laughed.
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When I was little, I thought that birds feathers were made out of twigs and cat hairs.
When I was a kid, I had a storybook with dragons and unicorns, but also kangaroos. So I thought kangaroos weren't real. When I went to the zoo for the first time, I was in pure awe.
When my sister and I were 5 & 6 respectively, I told my sister that the dog doo in our front yard, bleached white from the sun, were dinosaur bones.
After telling her that, she would fill her pockets with sun bleached dog doo all the time. This went on for about a year. Our mom used to empty our pockets prior to doing the wash. I remember our mom always telling her to stop doing that. She would stop for awhile, then start collecting again.
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I use to think mountains were dead dinosaurs and grass grew over it.
My mom told me whiskers helped cats keep their balance when I asked what they were for. Due to this, I thought if I ever cut my cat's whiskers off or even accidentally plucked one out, they would go around bumping into stuff and be mad at me forever.
Yesterday, I was looking at this website for some animal shelter, for a roommate who was interested. Well, after a while, I got to looking at their available cats on the site. With some of the cats, next to where it told their gender, some of them said they were "altered" saying something like, "female (altered)" or "male (altered)" for their gender. Typically, altered means changed- right?? Well, I applied this logic to the word in this context, and thought for a moment that these cats had sex change operations! And that something like "female (altered)" meant that the cat WAS a female, but had her sex changed. I was thinking to myself, "but who would to such a thing to an animal??- that's terrible!" After a couple minutes, I realized that it only meant that the cat had been fixed... what an idiot...
If you cut or pluck a cats whiskers they could get sick or die.
when i was little i thought that locusts were alens. i went into my backyard one day and saw one on my playset and it was cumin out of its shell thing and it was all green and crap....i then ran inside yelling "ALIEN! ALIEN!" and my parents thought i was crazy until they saw wat i had seen lol
I used to believe that reindeers were made up, like Santa. As a cynical kid, I thought it was all part of the made-up Christmas package. Dragons: now there was an animal I could believe in.
I didn't find out they were real until Xmas 2007. I'm 19.