When i was a kid i didn't recognize farm animals being a city kid! I knew only goats! So when we were going on trips to the countryside i was naming every animal i was seeing! Cows were big goats! Sheep were fluffy goats and horses were goats with fancy tails!

When I watched old black and white movies when I was little I thought the world was really only black and white back then, and color wasn't invented until the 1960s.

I was upset when we went to the animal dr. and he wasn't an animal.

Usually, we tell kids that old pets will be "put to sleep" because they were in a lot of pain, or not eating anymore. So naturally, they understand the term "put to sleep" to mean to pass away. So imagine the kids' panic when they heard the doctor tell me that he will need to "put me to sleep" for the operation. Poor things!

The entry about the robot mom had me remember this one: My older brother told me when I was about 5 that my parents were going to replace my brain with a robot brain because mine wasn't working properly (brothers🙄) I told him that isn't true because they would have told me. He said they didnt tell me because they didnt want to scare me. They were planning to have the surgeon do it after I went to sleep one night. He said I would just wake up one day with a robot brain and I would never know. I thought he was lying, but then...maybe he was right...I thought about asking mum about it but...was she going to tell me the truth? I had a lot of trouble sleeping for a few nights 😅

I thought the publishing date of a book was when it was actually printed. So if there was a book from 1920, I thought that particular book was printed in 1920 and was super impressed about how good it looked.

me and my smarter friend was talking about a serial killer thing (context was a skit for cops&robbers) and i legit thought it was a guy who killed cereal

When I was little my teacher told us about a relative of hers that died because she was peeing blood and didn't tell anyone, so it was a lesson about "if somethings wrong tell someone", and so a few weeks later I was talking to my mom in the bathroom and I looked in the toilet when she flushed and saw blood, and cried because I thought she was going to die, but she calmed me down and explained everything. And that's how I found out about periods!

I had one of these much later in life. I started driving in 1993. You know how gasoline (petrol) has octane ratings of like 89-94. I thought those ratings were years when the fuel was processed (or something like that). So when I got a little older in my 20's and asked people why the numbers hadn't changed, I got thoroughly laughed at... also, as a kid I thought water polo was played on horses in the water

Back in the 90's, we saw the 1960's Batman series on TV. I thought it was live show and that they had dinner or lunch during the commercial break.

my Birthday is June 29 (astrological sign: cancer). when I was little I would throw tantrums because I thought that meant I was going to grow up and die of cancer.

When I was a little kid the school sent me home with a permission slip. The teacher kept saying don’t forget to bring your slip tomorrow!! The only thing I knew as a slip was the one my mom put on underneath her dress!! I went home and told my mom I needed one of the slips that she were under her dress. It took a while to unravel that one

I've sat laughing at these for a good while . When I was like 5-7 (can't remember exactly ), my family was driving across the US for vacation. We stopped at McDonalds for lunch and I decided to stay in the car with our dog. It was the 80's people left their kids anywhere lol. A truck pulled up next to our car and there was a gun rack, with guns in the truck. I sat on the floor of the van hiding and crying because I thought he was there to shoot me. Eventually I got up the courage to run inside and get my parents. Not only did they laugh at me, but my dog ate my happy meal. I was so mad