Things you believed as children....

I’m so so embarrassed about this one. But I’m going to admit to it. Up until my late 40’s I thought blood is just sloshing around in our bodies. Because if your arm gets cut off, blood pours out. I knew it was in veins but thought it also sloshed around all the gaps and it always puzzled me as to why it doesn’t just fall out of our ears and mouths. So embarrassed but I’ve got that off my chest now.

I thought that people died in order of age...that the oldest person in each family died first, then the next eldest etc, down to the youngest.

So I told my grandmother that she would die first [just to cheer her up!] and me last. She said 'Not necessarily'. That shocked me and I had to have a rethink. Then felt really sad.

I was about 5 when I said it...hadn't understood about illness, disability and disease, war etc. I thought everyone was born fit and well, were always healthy and died of old age.

I also thought cats were female and dogs male - you're not the only one Lucca! Until I was around 14 or so I really believed boys had periods too, it was the result of something I heard my mother say to another mum about her son.

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I thought you could choose how many babies you could have when you got pregnant. I wanted triplets to start with, followed by twins.

I have also just been shocked at the little piggy at market scenario. I never even thought about anything but shopping either. ?

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As a child I thought that the line ( from The House That Jack Built) here is the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat etc
Meant that the cat was a bit worried by the dog being there.

My Dad told me that he was such a good little boy when he was small that he never got told off, and I believed him. I later met an elderly chap who had known my Dad as a child, who soon blew that story out of the water!

I thought the moon changed shape, so when you saw the half moon that was it’s complete shape. I was a teenager before I realised it was an orb and it was in the sun’s shadow.
Only last year I found out why pirates have an eye patch. Not because they fight each other. It’s because they removed it when they went below deck to see in the dark quickly with the patched eye. Mind was blown with that one.

Omg! I've just got to 60 and it has never occurred to me that the little piggy could be going any where other than shopping ???

I always thought how wonderful that people could be so helpful when I was young and heard the phrase on the TV, helping police with their enquiries.

Father Xmas and the tooth fairy
I was told others but didn't believe them e.g. babies under bushes

I was told that thunder was God moving the furniture around. It was supposed to calm me down but I just got cross with God for making so much noise!

Oh, and thunder was the Angels moving the piano in heaven.

Father Christmas.
Swallowing grape seeds would give you appendicitis.
That grown-ups always told the truth.
Going straight out after a bath would mean your pores were open and you could catch a disease.
You shouldn't have a bath or wash your hair when you had your period all of us put straight on that score aged 11 by the Senior Mistress.

I thought that adult Americans all slept in single beds. Whenever you saw a couple in a film or on TV, they were always in twin-bedded rooms. I was an adult before I realised that it was due to America's strict moral broadcasting code, and that Americans had double beds too.

When I asked how we got our tummy buttons my Mum said it was after we'd come out of the oven from being cooked, God went round poking us in the tummy saying "your done"

I was told that thunder was God playing football.

This is embarrassing. I was mad on adventure books when I was young, and used the local jumble sales to feed my habit. I went to one, and asked if they had any Gnid Blyton books - I thought that was her name because of the way it was written on the books. They laughed at me!

I thought you could choose how many babies you could have when you got pregnant. I wanted triplets to start with, followed by twins.

I have also just been shocked at the little piggy at market scenario. I never even thought about anything but shopping either. ?

I thought there was a tiny little orchestra playing in the radio. To my defense, it was quite a big radio, but it was not the size of a concert hall. When we moved house and my brother's rocking horse did not come with us, we were told it had run away to live happily on a farm.

I thought if you had gas central heating it meant the radiators were full of gas. I thought that till a few years ago when it was explained to me.

At Sunday school we sang "Jesus will wash away my sins. I thought a sin was short for cinder. I decided not to play with cinders so I wouldn't need washing.

Esspee, that’s so sweet.

My dad was in the navy during the war, told me he was an admiral. I told teacher and she invited him to school to give a talk.
He did it too, but more from the pirate angle, I still didn’t know he was never an admiral until I was about ten.

I believed my father when he used to say he was going out ‘to see a man about a dog’, we never got the dog. We lived in Malvern for the first eight years of my life and I believed my brother when he told me to be careful at the top of the hills because it was the end of the world and I could fall off.

I just really bought into much of what was fed into us at my catholic junior school, and of course young children are very susceptible to believing what they are told, particularly by someone who is a figure of authority. In retrospect, as I grew older I realised much of it was nonsense, such as this, mentor nun preparing a group of us aged 7 for our First Holy Communion told us this "never put your teeth on the host when it's put into your mouth otherwise you will be biting Jesus' legs off" I dutifully followed that advice for quite a few years until it eventually dawned on me she was barking and much of what she imparted was a load of drivel!

I thought you only had to sleep in the same room as a male to get pregnant which worried me no end when holidaying in a b&b with DP’s with us all sleeping in the same room ??! I slept all night in my single bed with my back to them. I didn’t take that into adulthood either!!