<p>When I was little I thought that Australia was Canada.
That university was just like pre-school, and they had roll checks and mat time.</p>
<p>Presh!..</p>
<p>omg i read harry potter at age 5 too!!! nothing constructive to add though.</p>
<p>^LOL so did I! I also have nothing constructive to add.</p>
<p>^ & ^^ Yay!
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<p>I used to think that MIT stood for men in training.</p>
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<li><p>That there were monsters in toilets (and vacuums too but a not-as-scary one), so until the age of like seven I had to open the door after washing my hands, flush with one feet while using both of my hands to cover my ears, and then run away</p></li>
<li><p>That clouds had a flavor that was sort of like marshmallow fluff</p></li>
<li><p>That I would go to community college</p></li>
<li><p>That ‘stupid’ was a ‘bad word’</p></li>
<li><p>That Wheel of Fortune was so lame for not having a kid version</p></li>
<li><p>That every criminal got caught</p></li>
<li><p>That fifth graders were big and mean, and that I never wanted to be one</p></li>
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<p>And slightly off-topic, I read Harry Potter starting in 3rd grade, but started off with the second book instead of the first for no reason, so I used to mix the two up sometimes.</p>
<p>^ Didn’t we all think ‘stupid’ was like swearing? :p</p>
<p>Since we are discussing the age we first read HP, I think I read the first book when I was five or six because my brother (three years my senior) had just gotten the first book. Neither of us actually liked it until some time later just before the movie came out, my family went to watch the movie at 12am. It is rather memorable.
I actually read a bit of texts not many six year olds read; Phantom of the Opera, The Little Prince, Tuesdays With Morrie etc. Not sure how deeply I thought about what I’d read, but to think of it I seem to have done more mature things than I think 6 years olds would do.</p>
<p>Another…</p>
<p>I used to think my mom was really smart because she was really good at Wheel of Fortune. (She’s actually kind of dumb, but she is good at Wheel of Fortune).</p>
<p>I also thought my dad was really smart because he would ALWAYS beat me at chess when I was little. (He’s really just a dick because he would play chess with his 5 year old kid who obviously has no strategy, and would never let him win.)</p>
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<p>haha i thought the same exact thing. i washed my hands and everything and then flushed immediately before running out of the bathroom [quietly, of course, so as not to alert others to my fear of the toilet monster]. </p>
<p>i thought of the world as a much smaller place.</p>
<p>I thought that if you were still sitting on the toilet when it flushed, you would get flushed down too. I was seriously scared of that happening.</p>
<p>Oh, and also that if I swallowed a seed, it would grow inside me (thanks Rugrats)</p>
<p>That babies come out from the ***hole.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>That’s pretty messed up.</p>
<p>^ lol not really. I just didn’t know that vaginas existed, so the anus was the most plausible thing to me.</p>
<p>That sweating was when your head was melting
That the blinking lights in the sky were wishmaking airplanes
That every food was from some kind of animal (i.e. i thought quesadillas were from cheetahs)
That you would die if you weren’t holding anyone’s hand in the parking lot</p>
<p>That if you were alone in the pool/on the dock, you were certain to drown (thanks to my paranoid parents, as we lived on an island.)
That if I tried hard enough, I could one day be a mermaid.</p>
<p>& I had the Rugrats-inspired seed fear too, lol. I refused to eat watermelon for a long time after that.</p>
<p>That everyone in the world thought in English.</p>
<p>To continue the Harry Potter conversation, I can remember my mother reading the Sorcerer’s Stone out loud to me when it first came out in '98 and I was 3 or 4. It’s one of my first memories 
. I was raised on those books!</p>
<p>I used to think that washing a substance under running water would contaminate the running water with said substance for a short time. Evidence: After washing soap off my hands and getting a drink, the water tasted soapy. Only later did it occur to me that the soap could be on my hands, not in the water.</p>
<p>that unicorns were real. along with magic if you could just find it.</p>
<p>That cars are on tracks, like Autopia at Disneyland, you just can’t see them. And the turn signals make the tracks change (kinda like railroad tracks) so you can turn.
That high schoolers are strange, big people. Although for some reason, that only applied to high schoolers, not adults.
That if I eat any Halloween candy not in sealed packaging I’m going to die. Unfortunately that was also extended/applied to all the wrapper candies, including mints from restaurants and stuff. (Thanks, mom.)</p>
<p>On a related note, the other day I convinced my little cousin that if you go to the zoo at the right time, and ask the zookeeper, they’ll let you ride on the giraffes. Hopefully the next time she goes to the zoo won’t be with me :D</p>