appearance

I used to think there was a place called Caucasia and everyone from there was Caucasian.

Lucy

When I was about four or five, my mom had a friend who's son was "half black and half white". He looked very white. So I thought he was literally half black and half white. As in, his upper body was white and his lower body was black. Nice.

Jenn

Whe I was about 5 or 6 I was told that Real CowBoys didnt wear underwear. So when me and my friends were playing Cow boys and Indians I would go out with NO underwear on.. One day I fell over and hurt my knee. I rushed in doors crying and my mum said she would take a look and pulled my jeans down, to here surprise she found I wasnt wearing under wear.. She told me that it was wrong and I should wear some as it protected my jeans.. Not wishing to make my jeans dirty I thought id be doubly protected and wear 2 pairs of briefs.. This was fine untill I needed to pee . I wet my self one time as I was bursting to go and could get my dick out fast enough.

Davey. UK

When I made faces at my sisters, my parents always reminded me that if I did that too much my face would stay that way!! I was horrified, but then I thought of a genius idea. I always wanted eyes that would turn upwards at the end, so I stayed in front of the mirror, holding my eyes that way, for almost an hour. No, it didn't work.

Wannabe

This probably wasn't actually a belief, but what someone else wrote reminded me of this. When I was young, I watched a lot of Godzilla movies. And also, I apparently hadn't seen many Asian people in my life. So one day at the mall, as my mom tells it, we passed by some Asian people and I blurt out something to the effect of "Look! It's the people from the Godzilla movie."

Nick

There was a City councilman in Philadelphia PA
named Thatcher Longstretch who was known for wearing argyle socks. As a kid I assumed that argyle was what they were made from.

Brian

When I was around 9 I saw a women with a turban on her head and i pointed at her and yelled "look shes a Genie!!"..I thought everyone with turbans on were genies

Jasmine

I used to believe that if you were taller than someone, you had to be older than them.

Anon

My granddaughter who had only seen wedding photos of her auntie who lives in Australia, on meeting her for the first time, asked "Where is her white dress". She must have thought she lives in it permanently as that was the only thing she had seen her wearing.

Trisha

When I was young I used to think all men with mustaches were bad.

Catie

When i was very little, one of my preoccupation was looking at pictures in magazines (also finding the letter "z" in everything written). Somehow, i found many pictures that i strongly believed to be of my mom. I was very convinced it was her in those magazines. Later in my life i found out that my mom was not Elizabeth Taylor :))

Michelle

I used to think that zits, glasses, braces, and Catholic school uniforms were the coolest things ever invented and they showed that you were really a smart person.

exnerddd[3

When I was a kid, people always used to tell me how skinny I was, so whenever I used to get into an elevator, I would jump over the crack between the elevator and the floor because I was afraid that I would fall in.

J

I used to believe that if I wore my brothers' old clothes I'd turn into a boy, which was clearly what had happened to them. I wore nothing but dresses and skirts 'til I was 8.

Scared Of Pants

I thought that babies were born with baby clothes including the bib. I thought that babies were so innocent that they can't arrive in the world shamefully naked, as nudity to me was the synonym of unprecedented perversion.

MDC

I once was told that ONLY virgins get acne. After sex, no new pimples grow. I believed that.

MD Caruso

when i was little, my mom always bought me those cool colored socks. i was so excited to wear my new purple ones one day, so i put them on right away. that night, when i took the socks off my feet, i noticed that my feet were all purple. i was terrified that soon i would turn all purple too, like the girl in 'charlie and the chocolate factory'. it was SO scary

one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater

I used to believe all nice button up shirts were called blouses until I was in a crowd (of all places) and told my male cousin that I liked his blouse. Everyone laughed and my cousin said boys don't wear blouses.

Wickwire

When I was younger (even though I have a twin sister) I would hide behind my door and stare at my family between the crack because I thought they were robots... That they couldn't be real because I was real and they were not like me.

Anon

I used to believe when people got really heavy they would just blow up and all the food would just explode out of them and you'd just start over a skinny person!!

Priscilla