Society & Culture Misconceptions You Had When You Were Younger

[adammania9]

I used to think that before colour television, the entire world was black and white and one day, colour appeared in the world, including on televisions.

I thought in movies when there are scenes when an adult character is a child, that they had to film the scene when the actor was young and then come back in 30-odd years time and finish the rest of the film.

I was a slow speaker when I was young and so when adults had conversations with each other, they spoke really fast and often I could not understand them so I thought that when you got older, you develop an entire new vocabulary to speak with. This created an awkward scenario when I was about four and walked up to my mum and started making random words up and talking gibberish, only to be returned with a "Huh?" followed by a "nothing" reply from me and an uncomfortable exit from the room.

 

[Gough]

Grown ups knew what they were doing.

 

[CakeEater]

Doctors rooms were soundproof

I learnt they were wrong, when I heard a child howling through the wall.

 

[NaturalDisaster]

My family aren't religious but my grandparents are catholic. I didn't know anything about religion as a child so I thought that Church was something old people went to.

I used to also think that all the boring places you had to go to with parents (e.g shops, bank) were made for the purpose of torturing children.

 

[RelaxMax]

Dogs were boys and cats were girls

 

[RelaxMax]

I used to think that before colour television, the entire world was black and white and one day, colour appeared in the world, including on televisions.

Have we met?

I once convinced a young check out chick that in the olden days, the world used to be black and white

 

[Scotland]

Well I'm not blind...

 

[RelaxMax]

Well I'm not blind...

lol

 

[Brunswick Trap King]

That Jesus had actually been inside the tabernacle at our school church.

 

[Tallest]

That the US was great and somewhere id like to visit

 

[M Malice]

That the tooth fairy was real and snuck into your house at night to give you money for your teeth.

That santa was real and snuck into your house once a year at night and gave you toys if you were good.

That god was real and could see everything you do and he doesn't like you touching yourself, particularly your penis.

 

[Power Raid]

In junior primary the teacher was explaining that it was windier because trees had been cut down to make way for a subdivision.

I looked at her strangely and said "but trees cause the wind", "the trees move and that causes wind"

She went on about some rubbish about high and low pressure cells. What would she know?

 

[Spongebob]

I used to think that before colour television, the entire world was black and white and one day, colour appeared in the world, including on televisions.
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It is true, this is a documentary, much like David Attenborough:

 

[ioppolo]

That in the game of cricket, teams assembled their batting order from worst down to best. My mother told me this for some sick reason. So I believed Hayden and Gilchrist to be spud batsman.

I thought the entire Earth had one timezone.

That athletes were born the way they are. They were just born as footballers or sprinters.

 

[Gough]

I always wondered why a little scratch stopped a horse from racing.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

That 40 year old's and north were really old and ancient.

 

[ioppolo]

I always wondered why a little scratch stopped a horse from racing.

Oh yes, I took 'scratched' seriously at the Dogs and Horse track.

 

[JG22]

Braces were cool and a sort of high fashion

 

[GeelongFTW]

That reattaching detached body parts (e.g. fingers) was practically impossible. Thought that when something was cut-off it was all over.

 

[Billy ray]

That Happy Days was actually filmed in the 1950s

 

[Eagle Wrath]

I used to think that before colour television, the entire world was black and white and one day, colour appeared in the world, including on televisions.

I thought in movies when there are scenes when an adult character is a child, that they had to film the scene when the actor was young and then come back in 30-odd years time and finish the rest of the film.

I was a slow speaker when I was young and so when adults had conversations with each other, they spoke really fast and often I could not understand them so I thought that when you got older, you develop an entire new vocabulary to speak with. This created an awkward scenario when I was about four and walked up to my mum and started making random words up and talking gibberish, only to be returned with a "Huh?" followed by a "nothing" reply from me and an uncomfortable exit from the room.

Bold - I thought I was the only one. I came here to write that as well.
Technically speaking, you still see the world in black and white.

 

[the_big_sav]

harness racing was for handicapped people

and the black and white thing previously mentioned

 

[Shell]

That Happy Days was actually filmed in the 1950s

Yeah I think I kind of assumed that also.


I also recall wondering what the issue with "Youth in Asia" was all about and why it was so controversial.

 

[Gasometer]

That you ran faster at night in the dark.

 

[Tallest]

Baby's are made when a man and woman French kiss.
This made absolute sense to me, I had it all worked out until I got given "the talk", things got substantially more complicated after that.
Ignorance is bliss.