I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.

  • 11181514@lemm.ee
    1101·
    1 year ago

    So many things…

    I didn’t understand how lie detectors were supposed to work so I thought you could hook someone up and ask something like “does god exist” and you’d be able to get answers to all of life’s big mysteries.

    I thought there was a left and right sock

    I thought wolverines were mythical creatures

    I thought if I tried hard enough I could somehow become older than my older brother like it was just a title or something

    Thanks to DARE any time I saw a skittle with the S missing I thought it was drugs even in a newly opened package

    I could go on…

    • SybilVane@lemmy.ca
      331·
      1 year ago

      I wanted an older sibling as a child and I remember trying to convince my parents they should have another baby. In my mind, if I just waited (my age +1) years, I’d then have an older sibling. It never ocurred to me that I would also age during that time…

        • SybilVane@lemmy.ca
          2·
          1 year ago

          I was an only child and I just wanted someone cool to play with me who I could look up to. Also all my older cousins picked on me and I wanted defence lol

    • Dark ArcAEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      Your comment about your brother reminds me that in kindergarten I thought that the line order (alphabetical) had something to do with status. My last name starts with C so I was pretty close to the front, but I had a friend with an A for a last name, so I really wanted to move up.

      I told no one of this of course until long after I’d grasped how alphabetical ordering worked myself.

    • prd@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      My son was PISSED when I explained how his older sister would, in fact, always be older. He was sure he’d catch up.