I Used To Believe is a funny and bizarre collection of ideas that adults thought were true when they were children. It will remind you what it was like to be a child, fascinated and horrified by the world in equal parts. The following pages will reassure you that the things you used to believe weren't so strange after all...
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I am 27. When I was 17 or 18, my now Father-In-Law convinced me that seeds from marijuana could be popped in the mircowave to make "pot-corn". I tried it and found out otherwise.
D.W.C. (from the law : drugs)
When I was young, I squeezed my own orange juice sometimes and my parents informed me that orange pulp was good for you. I confused this with orange seeds and one day put an orange seed in my dad's coffee when he wasn't looking saying "it's good for you!" He subsequently almost choked.
Seeds (from body functions : eating)
When I was little, when people spoke of going to the nearby town of Cedar Rapids (Iowa), I thought they were saying they were going to "See the rabbits." I asked my mom if we could go see the rabbits sometime. When she finally comprehended what I was talking about, she set me straight. I was disappointed, my vision of a vibrant rabbit community dispelled.
Kaye (from language : speaking)
When reading the packages for lotions, soaps, hairspray, etc. I thought "External use only" meant you could only use it if you had an extreme need for it.
chel (from language : reading)
After watching "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" I thought that cartoon characters were just people in cartoon costumes.
Ryan (from media : cartoons)
When I was a kid, the toilet in my bathroom was blue, so I thought that Pee was green. The first time I used a toilet that was white and saw my pee was yellow, I cried cause I thought I was dying
For 2 years we thought my now 7-year-old niece was afraid rp be baptized because she'd been told a priest would pour water on her head. Today we learned the real reason. She thought that being baptized meant you died. My father-in-law told her being baptized meant you got to go to heaven- she thought he meant immediately.
Summer's aunt (from religion : church)
I used to have a big rock that i thought was a triceratops egg, and i believed that if I sat on it long enough it would hatch.
Anon (from animals : general)
I believed until I was 17 that blankets were inherently warm. They seriously aren't. They don't generate heat at all.
Anon (from at home : around the house)
I used to believe when I was 4 that when it rained, it rained across the whole world.
Anon (from nature : weather)
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