I thought the chemicals in chemistry sets couldn't really blow up in real life I thought it was only on the cartoons, so I was wondering why when I asked my mom for a chemistry set when I was eight my mom had said "ARE YOU KIDDING YOU'D BLOW US ALL UP IN HERE"
A childhood belief about chemistry

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you didn't blow your nose and just sniffed the snot up, you head would blow up.Anon
- I thought cartoons were for kids and "real-life programs" for adults.— Ichigo
- When i was a toddler i sued to believe that if you ate soap you would blow bubbles for the rest of your life.— KEL
- I thought if i picked my nose too many times, my head would blow up.— i m a moron
- I thought if something was radioactive it meant if you turn on a radio near it it would blow up— Nate
- My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.— casey