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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I thought that babies were only born at night, and Dracula was the only male vampire, and all the female vampires were his wives.
Slightly odd child, yes. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"After watching Jaws, I refused to bathe in a bath and only showered. Was scared the shark would come and eat me in the tub.  "
I don't think a shark would fit in a bath  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"After watching Jaws, I refused to bathe in a bath and only showered. Was scared the shark would come and eat me in the tub. "
most people in stoke do that anyway don't they ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"After watching Jaws, I refused to bathe in a bath and only showered. Was scared the shark would come and eat me in the tub. most people in stoke do that anyway don't they ? "
It's to keep the flies away from the posh bits |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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our toilet had the cistern high up with a chain to pull on - ws very noisy and it terrified me - i used to dive onto my bed til the noise stopped - i did this for years but no idea why |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"our toilet had the cistern high up with a chain to pull on - ws very noisy and it terrified me - i used to dive onto my bed til the noise stopped - i did this for years but no idea why "
guest you not afraid of the dark then as well ? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I had my own mystical castle away on the hills far beyond my house...I thought I'd walk to it some day"
It sounds like you watched Labyrinth too much. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"our toilet had the cistern high up with a chain to pull on - ws very noisy and it terrified me - i used to dive onto my bed til the noise stopped - i did this for years but no idea why guest you not afraid of the dark then as well ?"
i dont like being outside in the dark - indoors is fine |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Oh I'm blushing recounting this but I thought really little people lived in lamp posts ready switch the lights on when it got dark - I mean they even had little doors... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"our toilet had the cistern high up with a chain to pull on - ws very noisy and it terrified me - i used to dive onto my bed til the noise stopped - i did this for years but no idea why guest you not afraid of the dark then as well ?
i dont like being outside in the dark - indoors is fine "
I don't like the dark full stop  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I thought pregnant ladies had to drink milk and they stored it in their breasts to feed the baby "
hahaha i remember thinking that.. as i asked a lady feeding a baby when i was little if it would curdle the milk as she was drinking orange juice 
I also went through a stage of being scared the world would tip suddenly snd we would all be thrown into space... it was when i realised how small and insignificant the planet was compared to the universe.
I also believed for a very long time my parents story that they found me in a briar patch left by the fairies |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I thought the Bogey man was made out of nose bogeys.
I thought my bedroom wardrobe was the gateway to Narnia but i couldn't quite get there thanks to the neverending supply of those coathangers with the drop for trousers added on thingy, that my mum had put in there.
I also hoped everytime i saw a magazine with A-Ha on the cover that Morten Harket would reach through and claim me as his one true love like he did in his video. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If I ate the seeds of fruit like grapes a tree would grow inside my tummy.
I used to meticulously pick the seeds out, you can picture my despair at the site of a pomegranate |
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"I believed if you bit your finger nails, a huge nail would grow in your tummy and eventually pierce your innards! Nice! Xx"
Similarly I believed if you ate the seeds of an orange or apple they would grow in your stomach |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I believed if you bit your finger nails, a huge nail would grow in your tummy and eventually pierce your innards! Nice! Xx
Similarly I believed if you ate the seeds of an orange or apple they would grow in your stomach "
my mum used to tell me that. I once swallowed a cherry pip and was terrified as i knew how big our cherry tree was.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If I ate the seeds of fruit like grapes a tree would grow inside my tummy.
I used to meticulously pick the seeds out, you can picture my despair at the site of a pomegranate "
I remember being so scared that an apple tree would grow in my tummy because I swallowed a pip! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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right up until i had my first baby i thought a nipple had one hole in it like a bottle teet- my face apparently was shocked when it spurted out in a zillion directions - but nobody had ever told me and i had never seen so i had no idea - |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I also thought the number of nobbles in your belly button would be the number of children you'd have. I can no longer see inside my belly button so unable to test the theory |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I thought that boys could only drink tea and girls coffee because that was my parents preference.
I was also totally convinced that I was Batman until I was 6. Went so far as to only ever refer to my brother as Robin. Even saw a psychiatrist about it apparently, who took away all my toys |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"our toilet had the cistern high up with a chain to pull on - ws very noisy and it terrified me - i used to dive onto my bed til the noise stopped - i did this for years but no idea why guest you not afraid of the dark then as well ?
i dont like being outside in the dark - indoors is fine "
bet you do naughty I think its manc I like the lights on as well |
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All the fireplaces in our house had been blocked up, so, short of coming in through doors or windows (and whoever's heard of that  ), I 'worked out' that the only other point of entry and exit for Father Christmas must be via the toilet - and that he was able to magically shrink himself at will and keep dry and clean while somehow negotiating the u-bend!! Am not sure how I thought he got the presents inside though ... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"All the fireplaces in our house had been blocked up, so, short of coming in through doors or windows (and whoever's heard of that ), I 'worked out' that the only other point of entry and exit for Father Christmas must be via the toilet - and that he was able to magically shrink himself at will and keep dry and clean while somehow negotiating the u-bend!! Am not sure how I thought he got the presents inside though ..."
the fairy door of course - the fairies come in and open the door for santa - this was the airbrick usually and my kids grew up thinking the same |
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"All the fireplaces in our house had been blocked up, so, short of coming in through doors or windows (and whoever's heard of that ), I 'worked out' that the only other point of entry and exit for Father Christmas must be via the toilet - and that he was able to magically shrink himself at will and keep dry and clean while somehow negotiating the u-bend!! Am not sure how I thought he got the presents inside though ...
the fairy door of course - the fairies come in and open the door for santa - this was the airbrick usually and my kids grew up thinking the same "
Awww, that's quite sweet |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"All the fireplaces in our house had been blocked up, so, short of coming in through doors or windows (and whoever's heard of that ), I 'worked out' that the only other point of entry and exit for Father Christmas must be via the toilet - and that he was able to magically shrink himself at will and keep dry and clean while somehow negotiating the u-bend!! Am not sure how I thought he got the presents inside though ...
the fairy door of course - the fairies come in and open the door for santa - this was the airbrick usually and my kids grew up thinking the same
Awww, that's quite sweet "
to the point we had to tell one lady whose house we were looking at to buy on the quiet to point out the fairy door to them - sold |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When I was about 4 I found my clit. I told my mum I was really a boy but my Willy was just very small. I was quite upset. I think she just told me not to be so silly but she didn't explain it to me. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When I was about 4 I found my clit. I told my mum I was really a boy but my Willy was just very small. I was quite upset. I think she just told me not to be so silly but she didn't explain it to me. "
well youre half right - just youre a girly x |
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Now I think of it, I did go through a period (about 5 or 6?) when I twigged that the meat we eat comes from animals and I got quite upset at the idea that humans breed animals to kill.
So my mum was forever creating excuses for how this particular piece of meat got to the dinner table.
"It died of old age/ennui/syphilis..."
God knows. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I also got guerrilla and gorilla muddled in my head, bizarrely I thought people were permanently assassinating popes (did one get shot at in the 1970s?) and genuinely thought babies were ordered from the Gratton catalogue - I remember being truly appalled when mum explained the truth about how babies were made to me aged roughly five. I was also completely terrified of the man who lived in the plug hole of the bath, why I thought there was a man who lived in the plug hole or what on earth I thought the consequences of still being in the bath when the plug was pulled I don't know, but it was the scariest concept in the universe. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I also got guerrilla and gorilla muddled in my head, bizarrely I thought people were permanently assassinating popes (did one get shot at in the 1970s?) and genuinely thought babies were ordered from the Gratton catalogue - I remember being truly appalled when mum explained the truth about how babies were made to me aged roughly five. I was also completely terrified of the man who lived in the plug hole of the bath, why I thought there was a man who lived in the plug hole or what on earth I thought the consequences of still being in the bath when the plug was pulled I don't know, but it was the scariest concept in the universe. "
Guerrilla warfare had me thinking of monkeys with guns!
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Oh I'm blushing recounting this but I thought really little people lived in lamp posts ready switch the lights on when it got dark - I mean they even had little doors..."
I love this one, that's too cute.
This is the best thread that's been created
Ruby |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My best friend and I were utterly convinced that, if we practiced hard enough, we could master the trick of unaided flight. So every break time at nursery we would go to the big log in the play ground and repeatedly jump off it, flapping our arms furiously. At the end of break time we would evaluate our efforts and convince ourselves that we probably "flew" a few centimetres further than the previous day. This went on for weeks until we got bored and decided to be Bananarama instead. |
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By *andVBCouple
over a year ago
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For the longest time my dream was to lie on a cloud, I was crushed when I found you couldn't.
Our monsters have some very strange ideas. They weren't happy to learn that "mints-pies" don't taste of mint and the youngest thinks the young girls next-door are called the next-daughters. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Not a strange idea, as such, but I did used to enjoy wandering about the house holding a mirror in my hands, looking into it and imagining I was walking on the ceiling. "
I used to sit upside down on chairs with my legs in the air so I could pretend I was walking on the ceiling |
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"I thought pigeons milk actually came from pigeons.
I thought a sex change wasn't surgery. But a natural change.
what is pigeons milk ?"
It does actually come from pigeons |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I thought pigeons milk actually came from pigeons.
I thought a sex change wasn't surgery. But a natural change.
what is pigeons milk ?
It does actually come from pigeons "
just had to google - learn something every day here |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I thought pigeons milk actually came from pigeons.
I thought a sex change wasn't surgery. But a natural change.
what is pigeons milk ?
It does actually come from pigeons
just had to google - learn something every day here"
Bizarre isn't it?! |
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"There was that period where I refused to read and was sent to remedial school."
My brother refused to read too and then one day began to read aloud, fluently from an advanced text book.
When asked why he wouldn't read before he said it was because the teachers were "bloody Nazis". |
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My dad used to refer to my grandma as 'the old witch' I took this literally and asked her if, indeed, she was a witch. She confirmed this to be true and promised to leave me her broom and spell-book in her will!
Despite several reminders to her throughout my childhood, when she died decades later there was no bequest of either broom or spell book!
Dad was right! Witch!  |
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When i was a toddler I went through a phase thinking i was a boy before i was a girl i can still remember asking mum and dad things like when i was a boy was i big and strong was i good at climbing trees was i good at football like my big brothers i remember going mad if anyone said i was never a boy
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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I was obsessed with finding paw prints in the forest and licking the water from them; my grandma thought it appropriate to tell me at seven folktales and I made up my mind that I wanted to be a werewolf.
I didn't stop until I was eleven or so and realised that they weren't real.  |
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I also was Convinced the troll from the billy goats gruff story book really did live under the bridge over the canal near my school i refused to walk on the path over it had to walk in the middle of the road i still do 
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Nothing strange about believing a tribe of long tailed smoking monkeys dressed in bright red waistcoats and Fez hats live under your bed with the sole purpose of chopping off the overhanging leg of a child with their big shiny curved bladed swords ......  |
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"I believed if you bit your finger nails, a huge nail would grow in your tummy and eventually pierce your innards! Nice! Xx
Similarly I believed if you ate the seeds of an orange or apple they would grow in your stomach "
Me too! Bizarre! Lol xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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l believed in santa way too late.
And l sucked a dummy until l was 6 so my parents made up a myth about the dummy fairy (like the the tooth one) and took away all my dummies for 50p. l instantly regretted it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"l believed in santa way too late.
And l sucked a dummy until l was 6 so my parents made up a myth about the dummy fairy (like the the tooth one) and took away all my dummies for 50p. l instantly regretted it."
we did a deal with the easter bunny over my daughters night time dummy - extra treat and he took them all away |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"For a period in my youth I avoided standing on cracks or the join between paving slabs, I had it in my head it was bad luck, I must of looked like a right weirdo walking to school "
I don't walk over drains when there's three in a row as someone once told me it was bad luck and I'm 35
As a child if I dropped one sweet I dropped a second so the first wouldn't be lonely |
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I thought that if I use metal toy cars with opening doors it won't shock me if I try to connect ripped Christmas lights cables together  .
I also thought that if you jump out of a plane and try to land by running down a mountain you won't die.
Thankfully, I didn't have the resources to test the second one |
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