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Childhood Misconceptions
mully
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Ah, the mind of a child. Is there anything more precious? Probably.
Tonight, we speak of ourselves (and our friends where appropriate) in a simpler time - we speak of our thoughts as children.
Now, believing in Santa, for example -- what a fantastic thing to believe! A man that could visit every chimney in the world, slide down it, and deliver gifts!
That one's easy. But there are so many other things children think, are corrected on, and then never bring up again.
Here's an example:
My friend, who shall remain anonymous (JULIE), used to think that adults telling her that "sex" was how people became pregnant, were liars. It was never properly explained to her, so she thought that adults were telling her that men peed into women, and this caused pregnancy.
She also just learned tonight that it is "for all intents and purposes", not "for all intensive purposes". (I, myself, learned this just about 6 months ago.)
My own personal beliefs as a child were.. super stupid. Allow me to share:
- I believed that hair grew out from a huge ball of hair in our heads, and once that ball was up, you didn't get any more -- I was terrified of haircuts for this reason.
- I believed that all Asians were vegetarians.
- I believed that footprints/handprints in the cement were caused by really, really strong people.
- I believed that there truly was a ghost train that went outside of my house, every night. I thought this because the lights always being on made everyone look really ridiculously pale.
- I thought throwing up meant you were dying.
- I thought lesbians were made up -- but not gay men.
So share with me, SE..wubble..banjo...whatevers. Let's discuss the mind of a child.
Tonight, we speak of ourselves (and our friends where appropriate) in a simpler time - we speak of our thoughts as children.
Now, believing in Santa, for example -- what a fantastic thing to believe! A man that could visit every chimney in the world, slide down it, and deliver gifts!
That one's easy. But there are so many other things children think, are corrected on, and then never bring up again.
Here's an example:
My friend, who shall remain anonymous (JULIE), used to think that adults telling her that "sex" was how people became pregnant, were liars. It was never properly explained to her, so she thought that adults were telling her that men peed into women, and this caused pregnancy.
She also just learned tonight that it is "for all intents and purposes", not "for all intensive purposes". (I, myself, learned this just about 6 months ago.)
My own personal beliefs as a child were.. super stupid. Allow me to share:
- I believed that hair grew out from a huge ball of hair in our heads, and once that ball was up, you didn't get any more -- I was terrified of haircuts for this reason.
- I believed that all Asians were vegetarians.
- I believed that footprints/handprints in the cement were caused by really, really strong people.
- I believed that there truly was a ghost train that went outside of my house, every night. I thought this because the lights always being on made everyone look really ridiculously pale.
- I thought throwing up meant you were dying.
- I thought lesbians were made up -- but not gay men.
So share with me, SE..wubble..banjo...whatevers. Let's discuss the mind of a child.
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But when I was younger I was a pretty fat kid, so every time I would walk over a bridge, I was ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED that it was going to collapse beneath me.
NEVER MIND that little Viv had just seen a 400-pound man cross the bridge without incident, it would be MY weight that was the straw on the camel's back and it would break and I would fall into the water/whatever below and people would laugh at me because I was fat.
Sometimes I reflexively think this even now.
That is wonderful.
I thought I was going to die
ban mully
stupid three character limit
You put your wiener in the girl and then it encapsulates your johnny like a docking bay and starts wringing it and stretching it (complete with robotic torque sounds)
what's so bad about that
isn't that sweet
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Well, the part where that blond lady pops out of the cake started, and boom, there were a fine set of titties. That wasn't confusing, at any age a guy can appreciate a fine pair of chesticles, what was confusing was my friends older brother saying, 'Oh, those are totally fake!'.
I honestly thought she was wearing a prosthetic pair of boobs because she didn't want to have to be topless in a movie. It made perfect sense to an 8 year old, and it wasn't till I was older and saw that scene again when I finally understood what the hell he meant by fake boobs.
I miss being naive.
I guess I couldn't comprehend the vagina.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
i still can't
There are no real lesbians under the age of 35
why does everyone think that is so stupid! it seems like a common little kid stupid-thing to me!
I used to get up real close to the screen and try and look up to see if I could see the rest of the picture.
Never worked, but I swear sometimes it seemed like there was more than what they were showing.
right afterwards I made mom take me to kmart to buy the movies and I also saw "yoga" tapes and I wanted those too because I thought it had to do with Yoda
that's not too bad
i still catch myself leaning sideways to look around corners in video games
you can't buy me that toy? why not? just go get more money from the bank! stupid adults.
she never did
Similar enough to my case.
For the longest time I thought girls sat down to pee cause they pee'd out there butts.
I've been playing mario kart with my friends regularly for an hour every tuesday and thursday afternoon, and I still twist the controller and shift my weight when doing a tight turn. Granted this is the wii version, but I'm using a wavebird.
we are nintendo's target demographic
You know how they revamped and improved America's science education curriculum so we could get to space faster and kill the commies faster?
I think we need to institute an economics curriculum so we don't fuck ourselves in future generations.
That was kind of a depressing blow
i did this too
i didn't understand why money was better spent on cigarettes and beer than toys for me .. and like, clothes and school fees and dentists
so I asked my mom why we didn't have a car
and she told me it was because we didn't have enough money
so I asked her why she didn't just go get some more out of the ATM
yes i did
the first time i saw pulp fiction
and knew nothing of the drug scene
i thought that was what happened with all drugs
like, every time
your nose bleeds and you pass out
i didn't understand why an ambulance was needed for this
when I was REALLY young I thought pooping was practice for having babies
but i'm pretty sure i didn't mind much
i mean i had a sled and a toy truck i rode and a little bit of legos and that's cool enough