There’s so much about the world that children are expected to just pick up from their environment. That means so many things are only half-learned because we don’t realize what we are misunderstanding. Ross McClearly asked Twitter users to share the misconceptions they remember from childhood.
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I thought the the Americans were fighting gorillas in the jungles of Vietnam called the Viet Kong, and their leader was King Kong. A peculiar problem of a 1960s childhood. I
— Rufus MacDufus (@RufusLongpaws) September 7, 2018
My daughter told me that when she was very young, she’d watch me do laundry. I would clean the lint filter out and put the lint in the “magic pink box” on the shelf. And after it got full, she’d look in and all the lint had disappeared! Magic!
“Honey, that’s a waste basket. I emptied it.”
“I know! I felt like an idiot when I got older and figured that out!”
My daughter stopped eating all ceareal as a kid. She told us years later she heard on the news a serial killer was on the loose. Thought he was in the cereal box. Didn’t want to take a chance. And she loved cereal.
— Diane Lander-Simon (@dishwithdi) September 7, 2018
Read some of the other things people completely misunderstood when they were children at Buzzfeed. There’s more in the comments, too, and in the original Twitter thread.
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