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I used to think spiders came from rosebuds. Don't ask. It was a traumatic experience.

Zog

I grew up near Southport, Australia, so naturally I would go to the ocean quite a bit. I used to think if I got sunburnt then any sharks swimming in the water would think I was a crab and jump onto the shore to eat me. The longer I stayed in the sun and the redder I got, the more chance I had of being eaten. Needless to say, I didn't go swimming a lot.

Rebecca

My aunt and uncle lived on a farm. They never had any animals, outside of dogs and about a billion cats. But when I was young, I thought that there was no way you could have a farm without chickens, pigs and cows, so I figured they were just very good at hiding.

Dan

when i was a little girl my dad was a logger and he used to bring home lizards for me to play with. well he told me that they were baby dinosours and i remember sitting in the back yard one day, after i had let my most recent lizard go on his way and i was looking up and around wondering where all the grown up dinosaurs went because i had never seen one before. i figured they all must be kept in a big zoo of some sort so they diddnt go around squishing everything.

A. S.

When we had dinosaur week in kindergarten, my teacher said that the Tyrannosaurus Rex was the king of the dinosaurs. So until third grade, I thought that there was only one Tyrannosaurus Rex ever. 

marshmallowgodzilla 

I used to think I was a tiger, I even made my friends play "animals" with me, where I learnt to walk (four legged) on a very narrow wall, and I made myself a cave where i had tiger toys and pretended they were my children.
I also, could run on 4 legs (u know wat i mean) REALLY well, i'd do it all the time down the hallway until we got our new house, and by then, i must have been 13... Yeah I know! I was crazy, but I could run so well, if anyone ever would have had a competition i could win SO WELL!!

Scrabz

When I was little I believed that bears lived underground directly below the barricades that block the street when they are being repaired. I figured out later that I had believed that because my mother had said barricades and heard bear caves.

C.D. McCullough

in my senior year of high school, i was taking an environmental science course. one day, we were talking about the different biomes, and the animals that lived in them. when we got to the tundra, someone mentioned reindeer, and my friend started to laugh. she was like "there's no such thing as reindeer! yeah, sure, they live in the north pole and they fly around with santa..." we had to explain to her that reindeer DO exist, they just don't fly.

ahohomous

When i was little, i used to believe that animals NEVER slept, and when i was 6, i saw a puppy sleeping on Television and thought it was dead. I was really odd when i was little :)

Sedona

I used to think that bales of hay were cow cocoons.

Wally

I used to believe that cows standing on hillsides had different length
legs. That's what helped them not to fall down.

Bev

I used to think that 'testicles' was the word for the arms of a squid or an octopus.

Emily

I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.

Betty

When I was little I after watching a certain movie I thought elephants could really fly. Can you guess the movie?

The one

I used to believe that the first time I heard about an animal was the first time ANYONE had heard about it. The platypus was discovered sometime in the early to mid-nineties.

VZG

When my neighbor was about five, she ran up to a bunch of older boys stomping on those prickly "monkey balls" that come from trees, and started screaming, "Don't hurt the monkeys!" Apparently, she thought monkeys came from eggs.

Anon

When I was little I used to think that some children turned into animals, which was where I thought pets came from

Anon

When I was a kid, I got a fake fur coat one Christmas. My dad told me it was my mink coat. So, for a couple of years, I believed that mink was synonymous with polyester. I told my friends this, and they chased me around screaming that I had killed a polyester for my coat.

Amanda

My sister used to believe that Buffalo wings came from very small, real buffalo’s and men ran about with little, tiny nets, catching these little, tiny buffalo’s. The men would then cut off of their wings to be served and then since they would be grounded, they grew up to be the big buffalo’s we see every day ~

denise

My Nan told me when I was younger that her friend's husband looked after the pigs at our local zoo and that one day after work he didn't come home - they found him the next morning half-eaten, by the pigs! I believed this until I started university and called my Nan in front of my friends who disbelieved me...it wasn't true! All those years of being scared of pigs wasted...

Sam