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When I was about four or five, I used to hang out with my dad and watch Rescue911, even though I wasn't supposed to. It was a reality TV show that featured emergency vehicles and kids falling out of windows and freezing to death and car crashes, and all kinds of gory stuff that should have been terrifying for a small person. My dad asked me at one point if I were scared, and I answered, "No, we have faces. Nothing bad ever happens to people who have faces." I was convinced that bad things only happened to people who had blurred out pixelated faces and that if you were born with no face, you were just doomed to live a tragic, short, and brutal life. I was pretty disappointed when I broke my toe and found out that bad things happened to people with faces, too 
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tramsosMAI posted:if you were born with no face, you were just doomed to live a tragic, short, and brutal life. this part is actually true 
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Jul 17, 2014 05:21
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I had this globe where all the different countries had different colors. Obviously, that indicated their main natural resource or defining characteristic. Iran was yellow, thus sand. Papua New Guinea was light orange, thus they export fruit. Canada was red, so it must be a hot place. Then Texas was purple. Knowing what I know now about the Houston rap scene and its beverage, purple is totally appropriate.
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Jul 17, 2014 08:41
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Umbilical Lotus posted:So, I know there's a regulation against giving blood before you're 17, but I distinctly remember strapping in and getting my plasma sucked out far, far younger than that. Part of the reason, I guess, is that I have the magic O Neg blood type - and the other part is that I got goddamn Oreos afterwards. I had hippie parents. Cheese on fruit was my treat. I would sure as poo poo endanger myself and get woozy for a few minutes to get my hands in that glorious bucket of free cookies at the blood drive, and everyone was so happy I was there for some reason! I feel like there's a secondary significance to this that I'm missing because of my denseness. Jastiger posted:I think Arkansas was pronounced "Are-Kansas". I mean...its spelled that way. If you're talking about the river, you were right the first time! 
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Jul 17, 2014 12:00
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tramsosMAI posted:When I was about four or five, I used to hang out with my dad and watch Rescue911, even though I wasn't supposed to. It was a reality TV show that featured emergency vehicles and kids falling out of windows and freezing to death and car crashes, and all kinds of gory stuff that should have been terrifying for a small person. When i first started watching it, I was certainly too young, and I thought it site was a nice coincidence that there happened to be cameras around to film the person getting hurt. 
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Jul 17, 2014 12:46
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DrBouvenstein posted:When i first started watching it, I was certainly too young, and I thought it site was a nice coincidence that there happened to be cameras around to film the person getting hurt. I think just about everybody that watched these had this misconception.
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Jul 17, 2014 14:35
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When I was three and I first saw a map of the United States, I thought that each state was actually a single city/town, making my hometown the size of South Carolina and Orlando/Disney the entirety of Florida (which were the only two places I really knew about at the time).
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Jul 17, 2014 21:27
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MizPiz posted:When I was three and I first saw a map of the United States, I thought that each state was actually a single city/town, making my hometown the size of South Carolina and Orlando/Disney the entirety of Florida (which were the only two places I really knew about at the time). I grew up in Texas. We had it drilled into our heads early on that Texas was huge and everything important was in Texas. Seeing a map of the US really messed with me. I thought Texas should have been as big as the US and was pissed that the Grand Canyon was not in Texas. Also I thought the World and the Earth were two different things. Like the world was what the earth resided in. Like this extra shell that surrounded the earth and beyond that was space.
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Jul 17, 2014 21:40
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MizPiz posted:When I was three and I first saw a map of the United States, I thought that each state was actually a single city/town, making my hometown the size of South Carolina and Orlando/Disney the entirety of Florida (which were the only two places I really knew about at the time). When I was a kid I thought that each state had its own money and border controls and such. This is probably because as a kid growing up in Michigan the only time I left the state before I was a teenager was going to Canada combined with the fact that the tiny little village I grew up in had a payphone, so my friends and I would amuse ourselves dialing random 1-800 numbers and I thought the guy who answered once said he was was the Ohio Border Patrol. I also remember being on a boat in the Soo locks when I was perhaps 5 and thinking that the Canadians we saw in another boat spoke Canadian and that there was no way to communicate with them. I also thought that any city larger than a few tens of thousands of people was so dangerous that it was basically a war zone and that you'd be lucky to drive through one and make it out alive.
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Jul 17, 2014 23:32
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Soviet Commubot posted:I also thought that any city larger than a few tens of thousands of people was so dangerous that it was basically a war zone and that you'd be lucky to drive through one and make it out alive. Makes sense. Detroit *is* in Michigan.
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Jul 17, 2014 23:50
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When I first went to the Science Center in Iowa as an adult, and they asked people in D.C. what Iowa was like and people in Iowa what D.C. was like. This was in.....what, 2003? 2004? They had kids like "Its just barns and dirt roads and stuff like that". or "Aren't they over in California". It was cute until they started asking adults that had been in D.C. all their lives this and they were like "Oh uh...yeah don't they do farming over there? Didn't they just get electricity?" or "Oh yeah they were just made a state like right before WWII, right?" or "Oh yeah, lots of potatoes there, right?". These were adults that had childhood misconceptions.
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Jul 18, 2014 00:08
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Umbilical Lotus posted:I distinctly remember strapping in and getting my plasma sucked out far, far younger than that. Part of the reason, I guess, is that I have the magic O Neg blood type O- is actually the least useful blood type for plasma donation. It's your red cells everybody wants. 
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Jul 18, 2014 00:15
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Ofaloaf posted:First sex ed talk, guys and girls in separate groups, fifth grade. We were doing final review, and a student asks "So... boys have a penis, girls have a Virginia?" In Canada it's Regina, which is pronounce similar to vagina so lots of giggling in grade school geography.
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Jul 18, 2014 03:33
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Toriori posted:In Canada it's Regina, which is pronounce similar to vagina so lots of giggling in grade school geography. I once got in trouble for singing The Last Saskatchewan Pirate, when I got to the line "When you see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores." I didn't enunciate it very well.
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Jul 18, 2014 05:11
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Buttonhead posted:Makes sense. Detroit *is* in Michigan. Yeah, I probably got that idea from my super racist redneck farmer dad constantly talking poo poo about Detroit and Flint, even though I'm pretty sure he never actually went to either of them in his entire life.
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Jul 18, 2014 07:11
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I used to think the Batman logo was a mouth filled with rotting, yellow teeth. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I realised it was a bat on a yellow background.
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Jul 18, 2014 12:51
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Treguna Mekoides posted:That's so cute, did you think things just disappeared up there forever like a Looney Tunes hole? This whole post is great, and to belatedly answer your question, I pretty much did think it was some kind of dimensional portal or something. Pee would come out, of course, but if something went the other way? Lost forever. Ogmius815 posted:Until I looked at porn for the first time, I thought that a girl's vagina was basically on the front of her body more or less where the penis is. Until I was like 13, I thought that during sex you just kind of stuck it in there and left it there. I had started jacking off years before that, and I had a few theories about how the act of sticking a penis in a vagina would cause the right sort of stimulation, but none of them were close to correct. I think my main thought was that some kind of muscle in the lady's vagina would do the work for me. Also, once I did learn what a vagina actually was, I similarly believed it was front-mounted much like a penis. I don't know when I was disabused of that notion but it was a lot later than it should have happened.
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Hulebr00670065006e posted:Hulubulu Lotte hvor er du henne? Exactly. According to my mom I loved the show, but I was terrified of getting my bellybutton poked. I have a lot more memories of "Bamse På Planeten", though. Danish 90's kids' TV was trippy as poo poo. Also, count me in as another person with misconceptions about how videogames worked. I was sure that everything were individual pages, like a dias show, and that the console/computer just had to load up the image depending on where I was moving the character, like an old-school Game And Watch kinda game, just with the whole screen all at once. Mind you, this idea started in the 8-bit and 16-bit eras for me. I started to realize I was wrong when 3D models became a thing 
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OneDeadman posted:When I was 8 I thought that if I put on a dumb accent or a dumb parody voice, I might lose track of what my real voice was like and then I would be stuck the rest of my life saying things like Elvis or in a Bad British accent until I found what my normal voice sounded like. That actually happened to me in Primary School. I did silly voices so often I literally forgot what my normal voice sounded like for a few hours. Until I test drove it 
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Jul 19, 2014 05:29
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I was about six when I watched The Blues Brothers for the first time, so I originally thought the "Illinoy-notsees" were a just a group of annoying assholes that blocked traffic. It also took me way too long to realize the bad guys in The Sound of Music were also Nazis. I didn't understand what the big deal was about taking down a red flag. I thought smoking and eating a lot of fat would eventually cause a person's heart to turn grey, enlarge to four times its size, and kill them. I picked this up from when I was shown a real cow heart during elementary school. It was intended to be a (hamfisted) representation of what unhealthy habits would cause, but I thought it was a human heart and took it literally.
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The existence of god. Not to hate on people who follow a religion, I wish I could believe sometimes but when I started questioning things and researching around the age of 11 I lost my faith. Ignorance really is bliss. Also, I used to think the Disney logo said Gisney and wondered why, it still looks like a G
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Agatha Crispies posted:I was about six when I watched The Blues Brothers for the first time, so I originally thought the "Illinoy-notsees" were a just a group of annoying assholes that blocked traffic. It also took me way too long to realize the bad guys in The Sound of Music were also Nazis. I didn't understand what the big deal was about taking down a red flag. My first exposure to Nazis was in Raiders of the Lost Ark. I knew that there were "Nazis" in the movie; i.e. I knew that there were a group of bad guys who used a swastika flag and were from Germany and were called Nazis. I knew how to spell it and everything. But I had yet to connect the Nazis to Hitler or anything else in real-world history. As far as I was concerned, the head Nazi was this guy:  I knew this because when he enters the scene, he says to Marian and the people in the bar, "We are Nazis, tee-hee." It was many many years before I realized he was saying "We are not thirsty".
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Helpimscared posted:Also, I used to think the Disney logo said Gisney and wondered why, it still looks like a G Good ol' Waly Gisnep Pictures.
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When I was little, my elderly aunt referred to some people as being 'colored'. Naturally, I thought this meant they had the same skin tone as I did, but with big dots of pink, blue, green or red on their skin. Another time, my much older sister was fired from her job at the Orange Julius. From what she said, I gathered that she could never work anywhere ever again.
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Jastiger posted:When I first went to the Science Center in Iowa as an adult, and they asked people in D.C. what Iowa was like and people in Iowa what D.C. was like. This was in.....what, 2003? 2004? They had kids like "Its just barns and dirt roads and stuff like that". or "Aren't they over in California". It was cute until they started asking adults that had been in D.C. all their lives this and they were like "Oh uh...yeah don't they do farming over there? Didn't they just get electricity?" or "Oh yeah they were just made a state like right before WWII, right?" or "Oh yeah, lots of potatoes there, right?". oh no, not poor slandered Iowa, Home of the Famous ... ?
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Alouicious posted:oh no, not poor slandered Iowa, Home of the Famous
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When I was about four I thought that cartoons were really elaborate live action shows, and that cartoon characters were people in costumes. I decided to ask my dad about it and he thankfully told me otherwise, so I didn't believe it for very long. I also thought the Gulf War took place in the Gulf of Mexico, since that was the only gulf I knew of looking on a map.
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Jul 19, 2014 20:37
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Croccers posted:I heard you can get power from a potato, maybe that's why they took so long to get electricity, they had to grow all them potatoes first. That makes a lot of sense
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Jul 19, 2014 20:42
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Alouicious posted:oh no, not poor slandered Iowa, Home of the Famous Another CHILDHOOD misconception is that Iowa wasn't directly responsible for computers, the atomic bomb, and has normal accents. Foolish, young Alouicious. Content: I remember learning about sex in school and thinking that it must be the most awkward thing ever. Like..how could you see another person naked and then carry on normally around them? Wouldn't it just be completely weird for all time? How do adults function?
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I thought that any country with a President could not be communist because the U.S. had a President and was the leading anti-communist nation, therefore the communist countries wouldn't want to imitate it. The fact that Russia also had a President after the fall of the USSR seemed to confirm my theory until I found out about President Hu Jintao of the People's Republic of China.
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I thought mixed-race people had patterned skin, with the different colours of each parent. I grew up in a fairly small village that was mostly white, with only a few black and Asian people around, and I think if I had seen a mixed-race person I wouldn't have noticed because I would've been looking for patterns. Part of the problem was I'm white with dark freckles, and my grandmother's family were Dutch colonists to Indonesia, so I just assumed I had an Indonesian ancestor who gave me the dark bits and the mostly white skin was from the rest of the family. My mother was very careful to teach me otherwise before I said this in front of anyone else.
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For several months I thought I could get out of being sent to my room by dressing up like a bag lady and just walking out of the house. We lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere, and I'd never even seen a bag lady, so it was basically just me in a bunch of coats with a sheet for a cape.
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I thought The Bad Touch was actually about the Discovery Channel. I heard it at a sleepover when I was in grade 4 or 5 and just danced while only paying attention to the chorus. I mentioned it to my dad later and he said "I think they talk about bonobos in that song." I knew what bonobos were but not what they're widely known for. Next time I heard it was when I was 12 and I was like  .DARE by Gorillaz has been one of my favourite songs since I was 12. I thought that it was about dancing but I didn't realize that it's probably about masturbation until earlier this year. Then again, the lyrics are kind of hard to make out. I thought that a lot of songs about sex were about dancing. Before I had sex ed at the age of 14, I was totally clueless as to how sex worked. I first learned from The Sims at around age 11 that people make a baby by "playing in bed." Then I was 13, I thought that the men sticks his penis in the woman, gets erect then just lays there motionless until he has an orgasm.
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If suicide was killing yourself, then homicide was killing yourself at home! I felt so smart when I figured that one out.
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Until age four I had curtains made of this fabric with jungle animals on it. My mom made a mistake with them though, so they had to be hung upside down. For some reason I didn't put together that the blue hippo was also upside down. I figured I was looking at some creature with fangs anda big flesh mane. There's a cemetery near the house I grew up in. Off to one side, far from any other grave stones, is an oddly shaped one with drama masks on it. I couldn't read the name, but I was pretty sure that was where Jesus was buried.
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Jul 21, 2014 02:54
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Diet Conan Doyle posted:I also thought the Gulf War took place in the Gulf of Mexico, since that was the only gulf I knew of looking on a map.
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I used to think that when I played Super Bomberman 3 that the computer characters were people from all over the world playing at the exact same time as me, and you could tell because all the different characters were from different countries.
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Going to the zoo as a kid, the only thing I loved more than the bat exhibit was seeing the flamingos. The thing about flamingos, though, is they're depicted as a uniform pink in cartoons, while real flamingos have varying colors of plumage: Surely there was a reason for the difference between a real and animated flamingo! I developed my own hypothesis. The skin of a flamingo had holes open enough to gently weep blood onto their feathers and stain them. I thought flamingo bodies just slowly oozed blood all the time. How else would they get such red feathers to appear underneath the light pink feathers? Therefore, flamingos were a uniform pink in cartoons because you can't show blood in cartoons.
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When I was young I spent a lot of time on newgrounds. They had different section, and I found the "Megaman" one. It was mostly making GBS threads sprite animations of Megaman, often going on childish adventures where he would swear and make sex jokes or whatever. I played a lot of the fan games, too. Then one day, I saw there was a Megaman game on the Gameboy Colour and it blew my mind. For whatever reason I don't think i ever thought of Megaman as a character that existed outside of Newgrounds. I think I thought of him as a "newgrounds character" rather than an actual videogame character, and seeing him outside of the internet o a shelf was completely insane to me.
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Diet Conan Doyle posted:I also thought the Gulf War took place in the Gulf of Mexico, since that was the only gulf I knew of looking on a map. When I was starting kindergarten (something for the "Stuff you just figured out thread": that means "child garden") I heard the adults talking about the Gulf War and heard it on TV, and couldn't figure out why anyone would have a War over Golf. E- beaten on my own childhood misconception. Luckily I never had any sex talk mishaps - I got anatomic sex ex by the 4th grade (9 or 10) and psychological sex ed (People gently caress because they're HORNY, oooooh) by age 11. Then age 12, I got the internet. I didn't go to porn sites or type in "sex", I went right to the discovery channel website, looked up the "Real Sex" show and filled in all the rest of the gaps of my knowledge. I spent 6th grade laughing when the girls in my class gave me an embarrassed "NOOOO" to my question "Do you have a clitoris?". I also recall being MASSIVELY embarrassed by the naked cartoon figures in a 2nd grade video that was literally just "boys have penises and girls have vaginas, alright". I remember looking around to see if anyone else was embarrassed as I was, and noticing the entire class was at rapt attention, as if they were learning this FOR THE FIRST TIME. I had the good sense to be ashamed by my boy-parts nice and early in life. 
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