the past

I used to believe in the 3rd grade that when the first president was born the world was born, and that the presidents have existed for 1000s of years ...

My dad was a Vietnam vet and when I was little he would tell me about different things he saw/did while there. It was never anything war-related, it would be more like "I saw a lot of monkeys like that in Vietnam" or "It used to rain a lot in Vietnam." I thought that being in Vietnam, then, was something men went and did before they were qualified to become fathers.

Of course, I learned otherwise.

I was absent from school the day our 3rd grade teacher had explained the holocaust, so for the next couple years I thought it was the same thing as "overcast" since both words sound kind of similar. I thought the holocaust was just a period during WWII when it was really cloudy for a long time.

I used to think that a long time ago humans and animals could talk to each other.
Then the animals began to loose their ability to talk as the humans began to invent more complex technology.

I used to love browsing though a picture book about ancient history when I was a kid. The section on Ancient Egypt had several illustrations of men in Anubis masks performing burial rituals, but I didn't know they were just wearing masks. I though that some people in Ancient Egypt really had dogs' heads!

When I learned about the American Civil War in 4th grade, I thought there was a line that went across the middle of the country to determine which side you were on. I was in Southern California, so I thought we were part of the South...

When i was child, i thought when the black and white photos made, the world was black and white too.

When I was about five years old... I always thought that the world was really black and white in our past generations because pictures from that time period were in black and white.

I used to see all my fathers photographs from 'the old days' in black and white, and only later on see pictures with color. In my naiveté asked him when color was infused into the world?

my 10 year old granddaughter was looking at black and white picture book at the dr office and said "was it still b&w when you were born?" she thought the whole world was like that.

This one time when I was a kid I came into the living room and saw my dad watching some old movie depicting slaves rowing on a slave ship. I asked my dad why they had to do that and he said they sometimes made people do it as punishment, sometimes for just a few years but other times for life. He forgot to mention however that THEY DON'T DO THAT ANYMORE! So some time shortly after my mom got a ticket for speeding or something and I was terrified she would be sold into slavery!

When I was little I thought the world a long long time ago was only in black and white. I believed we invented color over time and that is why the world is so colorful! It also explained why old movies were in black and white.

I used to believe that before a certain time, the whole world was black and white, not just the tvs. I was always baffled about how they got the sky blue, and thought they must have sprayed heaps of spray paint up in the air.

Anytime we would talk about Abe Lincoln freeing the slaves I would picture him walking into a cave and unchaining everyone.

I thought that most if not all dinosaurs turned into fossils when they died and I didn't know it took a long time but thought they just turn into a fossil instantly when they die

I used to believe…

two related beliefs I have decided to put in the same post are:

I thought the Medieval times where called that because people were so evil then.

I also thought that if someone was middle aged it means they lived during the Middle Ages