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submitted 5 days ago by Merlu@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.

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[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Pretty common belief among stupid 7-year-olds, I think; humans couldn't see colour up to the mid-60s.

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[-] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

That there were little gnomes inside the doors of the cars and that they were in charge of raising and lowering the windows, especially in the automatic cars.

[-] ToxicDivinity@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago

I thought every song on the radio was being performed live somewhere

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[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

The semaphore homunculus lived in the stop lights at intersections.

In my Superman onesie (w/ cape), I could fly, but was never brave enough to launch from a high enough step on the stairs. I knew I was flying, but...

[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I thought adults were smarter than me

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[-] roofTophopper@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

I thought those crosses or flowers on the side of the road were where they buried the person who died in an accident.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago

I believed I was an adopted alien from outer space before I realised my face is like my father's but prettier.

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[-] recentSloth43@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I used to think a car direction indicator was a GPS guiding system, and not manually operated.

[-] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Americans/Canadians made out while they undressed before sex, like in the movies. English people calmly undressed in front of each other and then began having sex in a dispassionate and business-like fashion. I think some other kid heard an adult say it as a joke then passed it on as a learned truth.

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[-] SoulWager@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

For a while, I thought kissing was how women got pregnant.

It MIGHT have had something to do with getting a half sibling in spite of my father saying he hadn't had sex with the mother. Religion makes people weird, is it really that big a deal to admit you had sex out of wedlock, when everybody already knows you got someone pregnant?

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

That we would live in peace

[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

Can I'll cheat a little and use my teen years.
When let's plays where the new hot thing, I thought a blind let's play literally meant, eyes closed

[-] CarsAndComrades@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago

I thought that the Michelin tire company was headquartered in Michigan, USA and not France. In my defense, most of the US auto industry is based in Michigan, and they sound similar.

Also: I will never accept the "fact" that the Michelin Man is named "Bibendum" france-cool

[-] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

That tv programming would pause when I turned the TV off.

Two that come to mind:

People would say that's an "old timey" car or something and I thought that was a brand name.

I thought the people who had really tall spiky mohawks had hair that just grew like that.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 5 days ago

rice turned water into soil

[-] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 days ago

Cthulhu is a Hindu god

[-] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Freddy Krueger was two people. I thought it was like Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. I thought it was Dr. Krueger and Freddy was the monster he created. When I saw the movie I was like where's his creator, the one that brought him to life?

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

I used to greet clothing store mannequins and thought that people who didn't were very rude.

[-] pkill@programming.dev 7 points 5 days ago

that you're supposed to show a middle finger as if you were showing it to yourself

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

When my daughter was about 1.5 she would wave like that, waving so she could see her hand correctly.

Not long after that she'd dismiss people she didn't want to deal with with a little blown kiss and a wave. So at the doctor's office they had two nurses come in to give her some shots and she kept doing the little kiss and wave and they went "aww she's blowing kisses" and my wife said "no she's actually trying to dismiss you"

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