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Childhood could be seen as one of the most adorable periods of a person’s life. The time when children start to ask and learn various things about the world is very important. And usually, it brings a lot of fun to adults who try to explain and share their knowledge as best as possible. I guess we all remember times when we struggled to understand certain matters. Having this in mind, Twitter user @ExileGrimm asked people what was the dumbest belief they had when they were kids. The tweet got more than 93k likes and almost 7k retweets. 

Image credits: fklv (Obsolete hipster)

The Twitter user started the thread by sharing her own belief that birds grew from bird seeds and that she even managed to prove this to be right. In the comments, people also shared their own beliefs that they soon understood to be nonsense. Even though these thoughts were false assumptions, now they make thousands of people laugh and think of their own funny childhood stories.

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Bee / she/her
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How dare you reveal his secret identity? Just between the two of us, my dad is his associate!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought people who spoke English were just faking it and everyone's native language was Ukrainian.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My father actually told me what Roxanne was actually about when I was young, but I didn't know what a prostitute was at the time.

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Johnny Rodriguez
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Understandable. 1 is the smallest-100 is the largest. It's a unit of measurement that children can relate to..

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In 4th grade ( around '90/'91) we were in the computer lab and our teacher had her screen on the projector so we could see what she was doing. First she said put in your password well all I saw was the asterisk and I thought that's dumb now we all know her password. Then she hit enter and said "now we're connected to the computer at the local library; I thought who cares it's not doing anything.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I believed handwriting was a matter of voluntarily infusing completely arbitrary squiggles with meaning. Like magic. That’s it. I thought being able to write was magic.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, when I was a small child before I learned how to write, I pretended to write by just scribbling such lines on paper. The interesting thing, I knew perfectly well what I 'wrote' and could 'read' it, word after word, and repeat it as many times you want

Lindsey Judd-Bruder
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's what I used to think cursive was. Just a bunch of connected loops, lol.

Anita Pickle
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wrote like as a little kid and thought I was an author of great stories! I would even read them to people.

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un..you mean CURSIVE WRITING..which they teach us in grade school?

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Robert T
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well there is definitely some miserable git that turns them all to red when he sees me coming.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought that long haired dogs and cats were girls and short haired ones were boys.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It bothers me when parents give a child a name that sounds cute for infants and children but immature for adults. I sometimes suggest, "Put 'President' at the beginning of the name. How how appropriate does that combination sound?"

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For me, I thought there was a black and white period, a low-resolution period, and a normal one.

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Guido Pisano
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am italian but when I speak/write in english I think in english I do not translate from italian...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always thought when a woman threw up she was pregnant immediately after. This was thought when i was 6 or 7. Every time i threw up after that i sobbed. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I heard the term "Great depression" the first time I thought it was because evrybody was really unhappy with how things were going. They never explained it here in the UK fully in history lessons. They just said "and at that time America was going through the great depression."

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s one way to keep the ruffles to yourself

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to think when there was a young version of a person on a program or movie then it was actually a video of the actor when they were a kid

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like when Elmer Fudd stuck the rifle barrel into the hole and it curled up out of the hole behind him!

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