The world was in black and white shortly before I was born.

I thought there was a massive tape inside the radio, that had the radio station on, and that it was big enough that it didn’t need to be changed out.

That God was real and had existed for all eternity.

Cliffs were fictional. Like the kind you can fall off of.

That adult humans knew what they were doing and had things in hand.

Being a hard worker gets you places.

That your tongue is divided into segments which each can only taste certain flavors

Each video game copy was customized and knew exactly what you would try to do always.

Not from button inputs. That never crossed my mind. Literally thought it was some magical fake interactive movie and the wizards who made them accounted for everything and knew you better than you did.

Needless to say, learning about code and how you can make things read button inputs was a mind-blowing moment for me. I learned what the secret behind the magic was.

I have ever since then been far more curious on how and why things work. Learning about the methods behind the magics.

Also, that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys.

That the WWF was real

That my parents were people I could trust.

I thought cats were female and dogs were male. Can you tell I didn’t have pets growing up?

I thought that cars were powered by the jet propulsion coming from the exhaust pipe.

I thought that when the clerk at the checkout asked, “would you like cash back?” That you could say yes and they would just give you cash straight out of the register for nothing lol.

I figured that most people were very honest and didn’t need the money, so they would just say no thanks and leave it in the register for somebody who really did need it.

I used to think all food for adults were called Sad Meals, as opposed to Happy Meals (like at McDonald’s).

I thought some wild stuff as a child that feels more fantastical than strictly dumb. Like I thought everyone was psychic except me and could hear my thoughts. I thought time worked differently depending on who I talked with. I thought the earth was both flat or round depending on where you were standing. I’d often get dreams and reality confused too. For some reason I thought dogs were people who had been cursed into becoming pets, probably because of me seeing the donkeys from Pinocchio. I thought half of people were robots fueled by pieces of the sun they’d pluck out of the sky.

This one is common, but I thought water simply phased through your body if you touched it. There was an episode of Bill Nye where he mentions that water “goes through your hand” and says it just like that. So I thought water simply phased through hands.

I think I was just abused as a kid and neglected