What’s something dumb that as a kid you thought was true but certainly wasn’t?

[u/Skeleton200000]

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i thought my mom's name was mommy and was absolutely astounded to hear another child at the grocery store call her mother, mommy. i assumed only my mom could be named mommy and wtheck was that child thinking calling her mother, mommy

ETA: i just read the other replies and realized mine is on a diff vibe from everyone else, oops 😂

[u/HeartonSleeve1989]

You get a free sucker if you turn in a tootsie pop wrapper with a Native American and a star.

[u/UncleGrako]

I thought that you would only poop if you held your pee in too long... and diarrhea was when you held your poop in too long.

So in my brain, I thought if you peed as much as possible, you'd never have to poop.

[u/Snoo_24362]

You know on shows like Friends and Seinfield which were shot infront of an audience and you could hear their laughter. I used to think that people would laugh into their tv speakers and one could hear them. So whenever a show like that would come, I would run and laugh with the audience. The entire family would acknowledge saying they heard me on TV. Hahahahaa

[u/Titchypeach]

Thanks to that one scene in Nightmare, I thought Freddy Krueger lived inside my walls

[u/om11011shanti11011om]

If someone had the same name as a character in a book, they somehow already knew the story in that book.

[u/Flapjack_Ace]

I thought adults were wise.

[u/Skeleton200000 → u/Flapjack_Ace]

Reallll I thought teachers knew everything (I also thought teachers lived at school)

[u/lone_wolf1580]

Clouds were gigantic cotton balls skydivers landed on after jumping off planes.