The Stupidest Things Adults Believed As Kids

We are all guilty of believing in the most outlandish things as kids, even The Andie Summers Show! Here's what we all fell for when we were little.

Jeff: I used to think that "lingerie" was a fancy or French way of saying laundry. I didn't come to this realization until I was a young adult. I still barely know how to pronounce it.

Donnie: Watching cartoons as a kid, I seriously thought that quicksand would be a much bigger issue in my life. I have never even seen quicksand in real life to this day.

Shannon: I used to think that there was someone controlling traffic lights in real-time. Not only that, but they were inside each light too. When my parents would hit every red light, I would think "ugh! they're really playing tricks on us today!"

As children, our imagination runs wild. Sometimes too wild. Maybe you thought that having the car light on at night was illegal or that if you made a funny face for too long it would get stuck like that. What were we thinking?

Here are the stupidest things adults believed as kids according to Reddit...

"I thought video game AI were actual people whose entire job was to play with you."
- maloswfi

"I remember thinking that my grandfather who worked in the bank, sat inside ATM's all day handing out money." -aRoundBanana

"I always wondered how cool it was that my parents' car automatically told them whether to take a left or a right to go somewhere." -Brilliant-Plan1515

"I used to think that when a guy got a women pregnant that one of his testicles would be transferred to the her and that became the baby. Never understood how people could have more than 2 kids." -Far-Tackle-9934 

"That all animals had doctors of their own species.
So a dog doctor, was of course, a dog.
Similar with ants, bees, etc..." -doterobcn

"That wind came from trees." -thelittleman16

"that wind turbines blew the wind. Like a big fan lol" -Baaskip

"I thought Alaska and Hawaii were right next to each other until I was like 8" -SayNoToStim

"I thought actors who portrayed bad guys in a movie are really bad guys in real life" -bubblebopgum

"... for a year or so when was about six i thought the mountains behind our house where buried dinosaurs" -iltos

"Nap time was a punishment"

"I thought that every human being was controlled by ants wearing little construction hats. I found out that wasn't true when I looked in a biology book. I was so confused. I was all like,"We aren't controlled by ants???? how do we live?" -DoubleDigBick 

"I'm the most important human on earth and that's why moon is following me" -sar0l 

"Swallowing melons seeds would…you know" -Liljach

"That every bean I ate would translate to a fart that I would have later. 1:1 ratio." -Gdroku

"Mustache is grown from your nostril hair" -Worldly_Ad6920

"I thought the world used to be in black and white because of older TV shows being in black and white. I simply thought color just didn’t exist back then lmao"-FrenchGirls92

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"I pictured all the bands lined up in the hall waiting their turn to play their song on FM radio" -drumorgan

"Mars was made of cheese" -DEFPOTEC8 

"When I was a kid, I thought that "Various Artists" was the most prolific band to ever exist"

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