<p>Check out "I Used to Believe", an awesome site that collects silly beliefs that people had as children. A few examples:
[quote]
Quarter of an hour is 25 minutes.</p>
<pre><code>If you don?t hold your breath as you pass a cemetery you will die or become possessed.
You can get pregnant from kissing.
You must marry someone with the same surname as you.
Oral sex is talking about sex.
Chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
[/quote]
</code></pre>
<p>List any beliefs you had as a kid. I'll start:</p>
<p>1] That India and America are the same counties and that London is their capitals.</p>
<p>2] When I was a kid, certainly years before puberty, a school friend asked me what women?s breasts looked like. ?They?re like balloons,? I informed him. ?Girls don?t have nipples.?</p>
<p>3] As time went by, I discovered that women had nipples. One day a classmate asked me how girls masturbated. I wanted to appear knowledgeable, so I quickly improvised and said, ?They play with their nipples.? </p>
<p>I used to think that when people moved, they were actually trading houses, and I always wondered how it seemed to be so easy for them to find somebody to switch with, and what happened to their old house if they moved into a newly-built house.</p>
<p>I also used to think that Santa was friends with God, and he spent most of the year hanging out in heaven, and that's how he knew what you were up to. Spying on you. Kind of creepy.</p>
<p>At some point when I was pretty young, before I went to school, I only knew one boy, and I always assumed that I was going to marry him because he was the only boy that I knew.</p>
<p>For the longest time I thought one of my relatives' name was something like 'fattynut', because that's how I always heard it pronounced, then I saw in the phone book that it's actually 'Ferdinand'. Damn accents.</p>
<p>hmmm...I thought, when I was younger, that when they were talking about Washington DC they were referring to washington state above me (I'm in Ca). I thought, wow, the President is close!</p>
<p>I thought that if you hung upside for more than 5 minute you die from blood flowing to your head</p>
<p>there are probably more, i just can't think of any now...</p>
<p>I used to live in Nigeria and prior to coming to the US, I thought the surroundings would somewhat look like scenes from the movie "The Fifth Element" with Bruce Willis.:D:). I was actually 11 years old--that just shows how naive I was:)</p>
<p>Here are scenes from the movie so you'd have an idea of what I'm talking about:</p>
<p>I used to believe that the "NASDAQ" and the "Dow Jones Industrial" (which I always heard about on TV) were two different big companies, and that my parents, both engineers, worked for the NASDAQ.</p>
<p>First of all, dogs ARE male and cats ARE female!! lol... I believed that you caught a cold from being out in the cold. I believed that if you went swimming right after eating you'd get a cramp and sink and drown. I believed that the only way to judge a singer's voice was to play the record at 78 rpm. I believed that everyone had the same TV channels. When I found out that not everyone had ABC on channel 7, it was kinda sad. I believed that the Beatles were very clean cut, decent, good young guys, just like their publicists said. I also believed I had a shot at marrying one of them!</p>
<p>I thought that watermelons grew on trees, kinda like apples, you know? Then, I started wondering about how a tree branch could hold something so heavy. I was always terrified of going through a forest and getting knocked out by a falling watermelon.</p>
<p>I thought that when I videotaped myself playing with my Barbies, the video would come out as one of those ones you would see on TV, and my hands would not be visible.</p>
<p>The Olympian Gods and all the monsters and nymphs really existed in Ancient Greece.</p>
<ol>
<li>If you don't shake your carton of chocolate milk b/f you drink it, it will turn blue</li>
<li>Teachers live in schools</li>
<li>Cap n Crunch who would come by my house in a ship once I took a bite of my cereal (this belief did not last long)</li>
<li>If your feet were ashy and you rub them together, you could start a fire</li>
<li>When you give someone a ring, that means you guys are married</li>
</ol>
<p>When I was really young I thought you could not only get drunk from eating chocolate with liquor inside, but you could get permanent brain damage. I thought I'd be retarded for life when I ate one by accident.</p>
