Weird Things you believed as a child.

ChaosAngelZero · Post by **ChaosAngelZero** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:17 am

Same thing here (plus many of the others). When I was around 6 or so some fucking stupid non-doctors though I had the Meningitis because of a strange dot in my back or something and I was put into intensive care, having to stay in the hospital an entire night without my parents.

Since then I don't have the smallest fear for death (only to extreme pain). Oh, and I almost stopped believing in anything like God and such nonsense.

Frieza2000 · Post by **Frieza2000** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 1:10 pm

For the entirety of my pediatric life wherein the test was preformed, I thought you were supposed to kick your leg forward when the doctor hit your knee under your own power. They never hit the right spot to trigger the reflex, so I mimicked what I saw in cartoons and never really thought about the purpose of the activity. Nobody ever said anything so I must've been convincing. I only recently stumbled onto that spot and confirmed that I really do have that reflex.

I also thought that I had the ability to levitate a centimeter or so off the ground for many years.

gr4yJ4Y · Post by **gr4yJ4Y** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:10 pm

Why did you think that?

Frieza2000 · Post by **Frieza2000** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:36 pm

In Weapons and Warriors for the NES there's a potion of levitation that lets your character levitate when you hold up. I tried to mimic it many times by getting on my tiptoes and focusing all of my...energy, I guess, straight down. If I maintained this position for long enough, I'd lose feeling in my feet so I couldn't feel whether I was still on the ground or not. One time I thought I went up a bit. I didn't exactly <i>believe</i> that I'd done it; I always tried to stay skeptical about things like that. But I kept it in the back of my mind in case something ever came of it. I say I thought it for many years because it was a thought I didn't look back on until many years later, by which point I was old enough to know better.

DackAttac · Post by **DackAttac** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:42 pm

My dad, who admitted later that the temptation to feed your kids utter lies is too much to pass up (and that I should try it on my eventual offspring), convinced me that brown eggs have purple yokes and green "whites". Imagine my disappointment when I finally cracked one open.

Up until two months, ago, I pronounced "for all intents and purposes" as "for all intensive purposes".

I don't recall any other dumbass things I had wrong in my head, so here are some of my friends'.

-Old friend of mine (in fifth grade) was convinced by her sister that her their closet led to Mexico, but was too much of a shithole to confirm or deny it.

-Current friend (21 years old) still swears that red and yellow make green.

A more recent friend of mine has a knack for saying dumb things. I'll call him "Andy".

Because that's his real name.

-Andy thought that whenever I referred to 'air resistance' in helping him with physics, I was talking about army planes. "What's with this goddamn air resistance? We're not in a war right now!"

-That last sentence was spoken a mere three weeks after the Iraq invasion.

-Thought that time zones were forced upon us by the U.N.

-...and that we should conquer the world just to get rid of them

-That straight men were also referred to as 'lesbians'. I eventually told him the truth there, but it took awhile. Really, it was just too much fun to see him try to pick up chicks with the line "Hi. I'm Andy and I'm a lesbian."

ChaosAngelZero · Post by **ChaosAngelZero** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:43 pm

DackAttac wrote:-Current friend (21 years old) still swears that red and yellow make green.

They don't?

And I must be one of the hairiest lesbians out there. Did this person also think 'dyke' meant arrow-straight man?

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:42 pm

They don't?

Naw. But red and green make yellow!

...in the light spectrum.

ChaosAngelZero · Post by **ChaosAngelZero** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:55 am

I bet blue and purple make red. If not, my school sucked (and I know it didn't).

gr4yJ4Y · Post by **gr4yJ4Y** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:14 pm

DackAttac wrote: -That straight men were also referred to as 'lesbians'. I eventually told him the truth there, but it took awhile. Really, it was just too much fun to see him try to pick up chicks with the line "Hi. I'm Andy and I'm a lesbian."

I used that line once in middle school just to confuse people. It worked.

Blue Mage · Post by **Blue Mage** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:46 pm

That you get pregnant when you get married.