I used to believe that my clothes were shrinking not that I was growing.
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I used to believe untill I was five that all adults are born like that and all little children stay little
i used to believe that my grandparents on my father's side were both my parents' parents. I only worked out that this would mean my parents were brother and sister when i was about 10.
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I thought that adults used to see life in black and white, just like on the pictures they showed me. I couldn't believe they could see colour!
I used to believe that I was part of my family but it turns out thnat i am adopted, and now i have no contact with my "mum" or "dad"!
I believed that my Mum and Dad got divorced because he snored too loudly.
It was a long while before i found out that it wasn't my mums bed he snored too loudly in.
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Whenever I was about to be smacked for doing something naughty (which was quite often) I used to cover my closed eyes with my hands. I used to think because I couldn't see my mum or dad, they couldn't see me..therefore they couldn't smack me!!...eerrrr how wrong was I?
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My Grandad used to tell me that he had a twin brother - he used to show me a passport photo of himself and say that it was his brother. When I asked why I had never met him, he said that he lived too far away!
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My Grandad used to tell me and my brother that he had a donkey living in his shed. He always had a plausible excuse for us not being able to 'visit' it. He used to pretend to take carrots out to it and one day showed my brother a squashed toy car 'that the donkey had stood on!
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When I was very young, my dad said to me and my brother: 'Jon is my son and Lindy is my daughter'. I then adamantly replied, 'no, I'm the moon!'
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I truly believed that everyone's dad was called Dave.
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Not one of mine, but my younger brother David, who, after studying the family's reference books asked us all what an Encyclopsida was for.
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My brother used to think that boys had blue eyes and girls had brown eyes. This is the way it is in my family (including grandparents), so it makes sense!
I used to believe that everyone was supposed to live to the age 100 (at which age we would all presumabley drop). People only died earlier due to accidents or illness.
I used to believe…
...that marriages were consumated in the back of the church after the wedding in some sort of closet. I knew in involved being naked but not much else. I thought marriage would be nice except for being naked in front of a girl.
i used to believe that if you married someone older than you they would die before you
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My mum told me her age was 35 every single year and I believed her.
On her '50th' birthday (when I was 10) she got a card from her workmates saying '50' on it. I thought they had sent it as a joke.
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When I was five my friends would ask me what my dad did for work. I told them that he was a Pawn broker. "What's that", my friends would ask, I replied my dad Breaks Prawns open. So for a year or two I believed that my dad sold or broke Prawns in Half.. When in fact he loaned money
I used to believe that all men had blue eyes and were left handed and all women had brown eyes and were right handed. Hey, that's how it was in my family!
I used to believe I could be happy at work, but even when I'm are doing something I love.. I still get bored with it! :(