Things you believed as children....

My older brothers told me the GB stickers on the cars. Meant the drivers were getting better!

I remember the exact moment my son lost faith in the tooth fairy. He woke, looked under his pillow and the tooth was still there. OMG, I'd completely forgotten. I got a coin and secretly dropped it behind the bed "Oh. Don't worry. There it is, it's fallen down the back." But it was too late, his look of betrayal said it all.

I don't remember believing any of the stories I was told as a child, tooth fairies and Father Christmas included. I always knew the latter was my Dad and the former my mother. I must be a born cynic!

You can’t disillusion me. It went to market to do the shopping.

My Irish friend says they ate bread and butter but mine ate roast beef

When I asked my dad
“where did I come from?”
He told him that I came from
“The Shullullerbug Islands”.
I never found it on a globe and thought that they had to such tiny islands.

I always believed that "someone had told" my mum what I'd been up to.
I always wished they'd mind their business, then mum told me she only said things to get the truth out of us. I was about 35.

I thought (until I was about 11) that as Australia had their winter when we had our summer that when it was December in the U.K., it was June in Australia… ?

I also, genuinely, believed that my Mum could read my mind until I was about 10!!! She always knew when we were up to something, so maybe she could… ???

I thought that a male only had to stand fairly close to you while you were having a period for the girl to get pregnant. I thought courting couples in shop doorways were trying to conceive. I was about 12 or 13, I suppose.

I found out about the piggy about 3 minutes ago ?. I'm 66.

I believed if I sat with my back too close to the fire to dry my long hair I'd get a weak liver. I imagined my liver was the muscles in my back.

I thought that grown-ups could do exactly as they pleased. No school, eating what they liked, wearing what they liked and never told off. They also had limitless money and could stay up all night.

Daisytwoshoes

Oh nooo I always thought the piggy went to market to go shopping until I read this thread
I always thought babies came out of your tummy button
Spent years worrying how on earth that could happen !

Yes I too thought that babies came out of your tummy button, but only when you had placed the wedding ring over it. I thought this for a good few years!

I knew all about piggies as a child living next door to a pig/chicken farm!

Oh nooo I always thought the piggy went to market to go shopping until I read this thread
I always thought babies came out of your tummy button
Spent years worrying how on earth that could happen !

That my dog had gone to live on a farm.

The one with the pirate eyepatch shocked me the most.

I just assumed that pirates liked to poke each other in the eye a lot

VioletSky

Also I learnt that the little piggy didn't go to market to buy groceries...

I'm genuinely shocked by this!
I've always pictured piggy skipping off with a basket on one arm, and a checked neckerchief!

I always wondered (and I was an Adult when it was explained to me) why Turf Accountants (I thought they sold land, fields or grass) always had Horses in their shop windows.

Wow these are brilliant And also sometimes sad.

Very sorry for ruining the piggies!

My father told us that there was a man called a ‘geolobolist’ and it was his job to collect goldfish farts to be used as the bubble for spirit levels, I believed that for years ???‍♀️

Embarassingly I'm someone else who thought the little piggy went shopping! I'd never thought anything else until reading this thread!

My daughter is laughing at me for telling her about the piggy going to market. She says she always knew why this little pig went there. A distressing revelation to me at nearly 80.

I too believed that swallowing pips would cause appendicitis.

I also believed all the nonsense I was told at the convent where my parents thought I would be well educated to be a ‘good Catholic girl’. Until I grew up and discovered I was neither well educated nor a good girl.

missingmarietta

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 went for dinner in a multigenerational household. The family's 5 year old daughter was going round the table asking everyone's age, then when she got to the granny she said "When are you going to die." Thankfully granny was hard of hearing and 5 year old was gagged before she was able to repeat the question! Clearly a common misconception at that age.

Noooo?
Another one who has always thought that the little piggy went shopping....

Cruel revelation?

To this day l worry about my arm or leg hanging over the side of the bed. The monster may get me.
I'm in my 60s. ?

Vintager that's really interesting and of course so
true. Just googled it myself.

Oh and up until a few months ago I thought that Bicester was pronounced as spelt…