I've always had problems telling the difference between dreams and reality, and no matter how many times my parents told me that I wasn't born then I swore that I remembered them getting married. I thought they just didn't want me to know.
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When I was little, most of the grownups in my grandparents' generation were immigrants. I believed that when you get old, you acquire an accent. After all: all the old people had accents, and none of the young ones did.
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Growing up, I watched way too much tv. (Still do.)Although my mother tried to keep track of all the content, i still watched alot of stuff which young children shouldnt watch. So, when i found out my father had a secretary, although i didn't assume he was cheating on my mom with her, i did assume that she must be this volumpous young attractive woman. (As i thought all secretaries were.)I guess this theory comes from the fact that on most sitcoms that the way the secretaries were and they were always going after the guy. I kept this belief unitl i finally went to my father's work one day and was very confused when i met his secretary: Ruth, a 60-something old lady.
I used to think i was old first and over time you become a kid.
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When I grew up, I was going to be a mom with no kids.
I used to believe that, to have kids, you didn't need to do sex. I thought you only had to kiss the loved one some certain number of times and the baby would be made from all the saliva that would be wasted in all the kisses. That's why I used to hate kissing people.
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Up until I was about 9 years old, I used to think my Dad was Superman! So I used to put my fingers behind my back and ask him to use his X-ray vision to tell me how many I was holding up. He got it right EVERYTIME! I used to think he was amazing! I mean... how many people's Dad is Superman? Of course, I didn't tell anyone because I couldn't let out his secret identity. It's only now I realise I always used to ask him in his room... right infront of the mirror...
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impatient at my growth rate,i used to belief that by stepping into my mum's footprints when i was 8 or 9 will actually make me grow older until she caught me one day,after telling her my reason,she explained it doesnt make one grow faster.
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I used to beleive that to fire someone ment to literly light them on fire and watch them burn. I even cried when my mom told me that my swim coach was fired.
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My mum and dad use to threaten they would send us to Germany to live with our brother "Helmut" if we were naughty. I always pictured this kid living in a cave in the snow with an army helmet on with a moustache. Mum still threatens us with it, and I'm 19!
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When I was a kid and I asked my mother why my dad went to work, she would say "to make money."
So I thought his job was actually making money.
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When I was little, I was told about water cleaning places from some learning program, but not taught all that much... I thought that people would go and sit in an office-like room filled with water, and they would get out scrubbing brushes and scrub the water clean.
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In kindergarden I had nanny who always drove me to school and babysat me at her house. I knew her husband "Jim Daddy -o-" as I always called him. Jim worked during the night and slept a lot during the day, so when my teacher in 1st grade asked if we knew about any nocternal animals I shouted out to a confused teacher " JIM DADDY -O-
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When I was younger and had been naughty, my parents used to pretend to phone the doctor and ask for him to take me away. Everytime I was naughty I used to think the doctor would come and take me away!!
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I used to believe that all my aunts were related to my mother and all my uncles were related to my father.
I onced asked my Dad about how he chose my mum (to marry). I said " Dad were they all standing in a line?" It took a while for him to work out that I thought that beauty contests were where men chose their wives.
I once told my whole family i wanted to be a dancer as in the movie Fast Foreward where dancers dance up and down the strip. Not having a particular title for the profession i called it strip dancing and being 8 years old i got some really weird looks.
i used to think taxi drivers were nice people who gave you a ride, told you loads of nice stories, showed you round cities and gave dad and mum money at the end of the ride
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When I was about seven my dad was awarded an 'M Phil' degree (Master of Philosophy). Because his name is Philip I was convinced that they had given him a special award that was a shortened version of his name. So I believed that if his friend Duncan had got one, it would have been an M Dunc.
I used to believe…
My Grandad was called Ken and used to own a cafe before I was born. He also looked a bit like Colonel Sanders, so I thought he must run the whole KFC chain and that it was named after him (I kind of assumed his middle name must be Tucky). It was years before I actually bothered to think about this properly and realised it wasn't true.