Odd things you used to think

[Gore 10]

Non-native English speaker time: I used to think that stroking meant strangling.. when I read a sentence "I want to stroke your body" I was literally thinking who the hell wants/tries to strangle someone's body.

i do lol

[Hutch333 1]

I used to think that pineapples grew in trees.. and when I was small I thought that trees created the wind when they swayed because of the wind (idk did I use the right verb there was 11 translations for the Finnish verb heilua)..

You used the right form of sway/swayed/swaying. No worries.

[Gaunt 4]

I used to think monsters were real so i did a bunch of stupid things before sleeping, like covering my neck (so a vampire couldn't drink my blood) or sleeping at the center of the bed (so the "monster under the bed" would not reach me)

[Gentleman's Hat 0]

I use to thought that Handicap signs where people in wheelchairs park and then get up.

[Ojama Yellow 759]

I used to think that Nurse Joy said 'I hope to see your Aggron' instead of 'I hope to see you again'.

[NickCrash 250]

I used to think that Nurse Joy said 'I hope to see your Aggron' instead of 'I hope to see you again'.

I think you've been to the nasty part of the internet... again.

[Valiant_VII 0]

I used to think the abbreviation for pounds (lbs.) was meant to be said as labels. That idea didn't last long, but even afterwards i still said labels every time i read it out of just how my minds sees it.

Luckily for me that's over now too.

[Ice Cream Sand Witch 1650]

I thought when an artist or band made music, the president/prime minister/leader of the country had to approve of it before it could be sold. This was because I overheard people talking about an album and one said "I'm surprised Bush let him make this album".

I thought "getting high" meant holding a flower over your head which would make the petals spin and then you'd fly.

[Ironbound 110]

As a kid, I read in books how people could get wild birds to eat from their hands. I used to think that I could do it too, because it seemed so simple.

I spent hours each day for several days just sitting stock-still on a park bench, with a cupped hand full of seeds. I don't blame other people for thinking me to be homeless or just a crazy kid.

[Eviora 159]

I used to think all objects had a soul and be terribly concerned about hurting anything. Even though I've long since abandoned that notion, I still sometimes find myself feeling bad for inanimate objects.

Edit: Oh! And when I was REALLY young, like four or younger, I used to believe that bleeding was the worst injury a person could suffer.

[Anthony810 5]

I used to think that I never had a thing called hatred when I was just a kid, but I was dead wrong.... The hatred is deep inside me like a monster caged up inside.

[Ice Cream Sand Witch 1650]

I just remembered that I used to think duct tape was duck tape.

[NickCrash 250]

I just remembered that I used to think duct tape was duck tape.

When learning a language, you hear some weird shit you cannot instantly decipher.

I believe there is the "clueless foreign student" meme, in which idioms or metaphorical phrases have a completely different meaning.

For example, I was confused the first time I heard about a... murder of crows or a golden shower

[Eviora 159]

I just remembered that I used to think duct tape was duck tape.

I thought that, too!

[dead account 27]

I used to be a conspiracy theorist... ugh... I was a stupid kid...

I used to think Ow the Edgehog was cool. Not EternalEdge, the actual edgehog himself(why young me, why?). I tried to act like him too. *shudders*

I used to think other people weren't worth my time at all.

I'm pretty sure there's more, but I think that's enough repressed memories dug up for a lifetime.

[Halloween 0]

i didn't know homophobia existed until I was like, 13, which makes me kinda sad now.

i also thought for the longest time that the president/prime minister of every country was just micromanaging the fuck out of everything. like, that dude was just personally responsible for exact how many meatballs i'd get in my meatball sandwich. (thanks obama)

i thought all drugs was pretty much the same shit different names. one of my fave idols got arrested for smoking weed and i was just heartbroken that he had so clearly lost control over his life.

i also remember my sense of time being a bit off, i thought 10 minutes was a realistic estimate of how long it would take to walk down a 20-step staircase.

[Skullkin 14]

I thought the term "homo" was slang for a homeless person.

[Ice Cream Sand Witch 1650]

The first time I heard the term having a crush on someone, I asked what it meant and learned it means that you like someone.

I didn't know that meant like like. So I thought people have crushes on their friends because they like them.

[Jmanultrax1 38]

I used to think girls came from a different planet. I was 8 years old at this time.

Me and my friends thought that in middle school that if you didn't like like someone you were supposedly homo. This came back to haunt me in my final year.

I used to think ash was the "greatest" pokemon trainer.

I used to think I had super speed before. Only then after what 2 years (grade 6) I realized it was because of me playing soccer that im fast.

[Honchy 0]

I pretty much never thought odd things in real life, just things in cartoons and video games.

I used to think that if you mash the A button, you could easily catch a pokemon. Unfortunately, my button mashing skills got rusty when I started playing Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story T~T.

Also, I didn't knew how animation worked when I was a baby, so I thought the cartoon people were from another planet.

[Jmanultrax1 38]

is the sun a plant?

[Lilleen 10]

I used to believe that China was the biggest country in the world.

I used to think that instead of God, two old people was sitting and watching TV, following our lives through the TV.

I used to believe that weather symbolized the emtions of God:

- Rain: Sadness

- Sun: Happiness

- Storm: Anger

- Overcast: Gloomy

My parents doesn't live together, so when I was visiting my mother, I always thought the ride took sooo long time (one hour in a car is long for a kid). Then I came up with this brillinat idea that my father lived in the north of my country and that whenever we visited my mom, we had to drive all the way to the south of my country, where she appearently lived.

I used to believe that age was determened by height. I told my friend once that I was older than her because I was taller than her, but she didn't believe me.

[Ice Cream Sand Witch 1650]

Until recently, I thought an uphill battle was where you were doing really well. I thought this because up is usually the positive direction (like the saying "When you're at the bottom, the only way you can go is up") and because "It's all downhill from here" means that it's about to get very difficult (I think from how I've seen it used, anyway). But apparently an uphill battle is actually where everything is stacked against you and the saying refers to a battle that was won by forcing the enemies to fight uphill.

I used to believe that age was determened by height. I told my friend once that I was older than her because I was taller than her, but she didn't believe me.

I thought physical strength was determined by height.

[Bluewolf 0]

I used to think that virgin olive oil came from the virgin islands, and extra virgin olive oil came from some place called the extra-virgin islands.

I used to think that every time someone said "Oh really" as a responsive to a statement I made, they were questioning it's validity.

[Ice Cream Sand Witch 1650]

I thought "Good for you" was just a sarcastic phrase and that no one actually used it as a way of saying they were happy for someone, because for years I'd only seen it used sarcastically.