"This Horrified Me Throughout My Childhood": People Are Sharing The Funniest Things They Believed As Kids

Kids have a lot of funny thoughts and observations about the world around them. Well, Redditor Gypx asked, "What’s the weirdest thing you believed as a kid?" Here are some of the funniest things people believed growing up.

1."My mom taught me humans have two stomachs: An ordinary stomach and a dessert stomach. Her reasoning for this: No matter how full you are, you always have room for dessert. I believed this for such a long time... until I was a teenager and took biology in school."

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2."I thought my belly button was where my skin was tied together. I thought if I messed with it too much, my skin would come off."

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3."I used to think people would volunteer to be killed to make horror movies."

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4."I thought 'low-fat' yogurt burns fat off your body, so I ate a ton of them thinking it would give me six-pack abs."

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5."That if my feet were anywhere near the edge of the bed, a monster would come and grab me 😂. I always slept in the fetal position!"

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6."I thought the black market was an actual market, like under a bridge or something. I believed this for longer as I want to admit..."

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7."When my brother and I wrote letters to Santa, our dad would open up the coal furnace door, and we would throw our letters into the fire. We belived they would go directly to the North Pole."

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8."When I was young, my parents told me that if I kept leaving the fridge open, then I would freeze the whole world."

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9."I thought a baby just randomly appeared in a woman’s womb. I stayed awake crying about it because I didn’t want to become pregnant."

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10."For whatever reason I thought that if something was wrapped in plastic and kept for a really long time, it would increase in value. My parents watched a lot of Antiques Roadshow, which is the only explanation I can offer besides being kind of a weird kid. So I received a wrapped game of Parcheesi for a birthday or something, and I kept it in my closet, waiting for the day it would surely be worth hundreds."

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11."That my mom had eyes on the back of her head somewhere under all those curls."

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12."That mushrooms can hear you and will hide when looking for them. My dad used to take me morel mushroom hunting when I was a kid and always told me to be as quiet as possible cause the mushrooms would go back into the ground if they heard me. Many years later, I found out we were just trespassing on somebody's property."

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13."That if you ate Poprocks and drank a soda, your stomach would explode."

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14."That teachers were only allowed in the schools, and not allowed to go anywhere else. I about freaked the first time I ran into a teacher at the grocery store with my dad!"

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15."I believed that my dad was an art collector. What kind of art did he collect? Glass-blown art. He would leave his beautiful glass-blown art pieces all over the house and sometimes even use them to light incense. Bongs. My dad collected bongs."

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16."My dad told me when I was potty training that if I sat on the toilet for 'too long' my toes would turn blue and fall off. I fully believed it until I was legitimately like 17."

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17."If I swallowed a grape seed, it would grow into a full vine and sprout out of my nose."

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18."That actors on TV would have to come back into a studio for each rerun of a show/movie. I would always be so amazed that people would have the time to go into a room with a camera multiple times a day so that I could watch them do the same thing over and over again."

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19."My brother told me the swelling from mosquito bites was from eggs they laid under your skin. I was so scared of mosquitos for a while that I peed in the corner of my room instead of walking through the house at night to the bathroom. 😬"

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20."My oldest sister convinced me that trolls come out of the toilet if you don’t close the lid before you flush. She even went as far as dressing up as one to truly traumatize me."

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21."My mom told me as a child if I had a cookie before breakfast, worms would grow in my stomach. Horrified me."

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22."My parents used to tell me that the tooth fairy comes every night to check for teeth. If you lose one, she takes it and leaves you money, but if you didn't lose one, she would make sure you brushed your teeth; If you didn't brush, she would pull out your teeth. It was kind of dark for my parents to tell me this, but I always made sure to brush before bed."

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23."I thought actual parts of you were different ethnicities. So when someone said, 'Oh, I'm part Italian.' I would ask what part. I would tell people I was part Irish and point to my nose, elbows, and if I was wearing sandals, my toe. Thanks, Dad."

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