I used to believe

<p>That reminds me...I used to think the signs that said "no loitering" were misspelled, and wondered why they didn't put trash cans near them, if they really didn't want people to be littering.</p>

<p>When I was really little, I used to think toilets were alive. The bowl was the mouth, the handle was the eye, and when you went to the bathroom you were "feeding" it. When it flushed it swallowed, and if you fed it something it didn't like it would throw up (overflow), and then it would be really mad at you. I was deathly afraid of clogging toilets. I thought that they might try to eat you if you didn't like you, and you couldn't "trust" the toilets that weren't in your own house. I also thought that if you shut the bathroom door when no one was in there, they would get up and dance around in the bathroom, and if you opened the door suddenly you might be able to catch it sitting in the wrong spot, and if you laid down on the floor and looked under the door, you might be able to see it move.</p>

<p>When I was 4, I use to think you underlined something in Microsoft Word by typing something, then going back and typing the underscore key. Needless to say, it didn't work.</p>

<p>I used to think high school/college students were ancient. And really tall (well, some of them are still). :)</p>

<p>And the basement was evil.</p>

<p>I used to believe in magic in a young girl's heart and how the music can free her whenever it starts.</p>

<p>I thought that little men lived behind my shower and whenever I asked for hot water, they would call one of their friends to get a bucket of it. Same thing for cold.</p>

<p>They had buttons and everything to do it.</p>

<p>that everything would be perfect once I was 17-18 with a car, a phone, and a job.</p>

<p>lol this thread is so funny! :D lol</p>

<p>ok,
I used to believe I was adopted
I used to believe imaginary friends were like angels or sth like that.
I used to believe everything my old brother told me!.. haha I was so innocent!</p>

<p>I thought an MBA had something to do with basketball.</p>

<p>I thought Bush actually had a brain. (well, no I didn't.)</p>

<p>I thought terrorists did 9/11. Turns out, it looks more like an inside job than it sounds.</p>

<p>OK, I got one.</p>

<p>I used to believe that those little squiggly things you see when you close your eyes and focus on the back of your eyelids, or if you focus on some weird plane in front of you with your eyes open were magic or something. And they'd listen to me and do my bidding if I wished hard enough.</p>

<p>What the hell.</p>

<p>I used to think politicians actually gave a damn about what their constituents thought. Turns out, they don't.</p>

<p>i used to believe that i was gonna get into a good college</p>

<p>I used to believe that I was going to pass high school.</p>

<p>I used to believe I was defective because I couldn't make an imaginary friend.</p>

<p>I used to think there were tiny little people in stoplights who would press buttons to make the lights change color.</p>

<p>I put this in the quirks thread too.
When I was little, I thought skeletons with needles would poke my back in the middle of the night, so I had to sleep with a third pillow covering my back while I slept (I sleep on my side). I still sleep that way.</p>

<p>one of my friends told me if i forced myself to gag more than 3 times then i would die....i did it twice then got scared to ever do it a 3rd time. i still never do it 3 times haha</p>

<p>i thought if i said bloody mary or candyman in the mirror in the dark, they would come out and get me. i got the courage to actually try this a couple years ago...i was disappointed....</p>

<p>oohh another one:
i believed that if you didn't tell anyone your dream, then it would come true. i never told anyone my dreams hoping they'd come true. the not so wacky ones actually have! i still don't tell anyone my dreams hoping they'll come true...and who knows, sometimes they do!</p>

<p>That my home state on the globe was my house. And that the neighboring states were my neighbors' houses. I wasn't bothered that the world was rather small...by that scale...but it did bother me that the globe depicted my house as having a very funny shape.</p>

<p>That was preschool. But well into elementary school I suspected that there were really only several hundred people...and all of them were actors who played roles to convince me that they were real and that when I left the room or went to another place the place I was previously in basically "shut down" and the actors quickly changed costumes so that they would be in place and in character later on. Basically, The Truman Show was the clever retelling of a longheld childhood belief (well, suspicion). Nowadays, I'm much wiser and realize that there are actually tens of thousands of characters out there who work very hard to make my reality work for me. Thanks!</p>

<p>I used to think that when you moved into a new house, you simply got all the possessions that the other people owned, like just moving yourselves. I was mildly disappointed when I found out this was false. The first time I moved, I hoped for a big screen TV.</p>

<p>great thread!</p>

<p>I used to believe wrestling was true and guys actually beat each other to death<haha>
I also believed that films were true and villains really died at the end
I believed that superheroes like spiderman could b created(by radiation) haha</haha></p>

<p>And </p>

<p>I thought The wrestler undertaker was really a dead man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>I used to believe that my parents were always old.... and then when i realized that they were once kids too, i thought that they would be all mature like and never do anything wrong (then i found an old picture of my dad doing pot.... lol)</p>

<p>I used to think that everything every president (past and present) did was correct. they were like God... infallible.</p>

<p>i thought pennies were worth more than dimes because they were bigger.</p>

<p>I wouldn't be able to go to college because only really smart people get to go to college (my mom hadn't gone to college at the time, and my dad only had an assosiates, and i didn't think that that counted).</p>

<p>i used to think that my parents were cool.
i used to think that my parents were smart.
i used to think that my parents were lame.
i used to think that my parents were dumb.
etc.</p>

<p>i used to think that long division was hard math.</p>