When I was a kid, I believed that if I ate any fruit that has seeds in it, and I swallow the seed, then a tree will start growing inside my stomach. There are many other such ridiculous things we believed in as curious, inquisitive children. But have you ever tried to prove any of these hypotheses back then?
A Twitter user shared how when he was around 4-5 years old, he believed that birds grew out of the seeds people fed them, and went all the way to prove it to his parents by planting a pile of such seeds.
What's the dumbest beliefs you had as a child?
When I was 4-5 I swore that bird seeds grew birds, thus the name. When my parents asked me to prove it to them, I planted a pile of bird seeds.
The next day there were loads of birds where I planted the seeds, showing I was right.
— _grimm (@ExileGrimm) July 6, 2021
I wondered why my parents still objected to this idea after I proved it worked, so I thought they were hiding this secret from me because they were worried I’d grow a massive flock of birds and they’d not be able to tell me what to do.
— _grimm (@ExileGrimm) July 6, 2021
My plan of sneaking into our neighbors yard, stealing all their birdseed, sowing a field of birds to have them do my bidding, robbing a bank with the birds to pay back my neighbors for their birdseed, and tell my parents to fuck off did not end up working out.
— _grimm (@ExileGrimm) July 6, 2021
“why rob a bank instead of just a dude? birdseed is not expensive.”
1) Kids have no concept of monetary value
2) I would never rob a human, only a bank, as even then I saw them as evil lol.
— _grimm (@ExileGrimm) July 6, 2021
That was the idea.
— _grimm (@ExileGrimm) July 7, 2021
People were bowled over by the creative thinking he displayed as a child:
god i would have lost my temper trying to correct you
— Marxist-Lamarckist (@CPIM_Lamarck) July 6, 2021
You were empirically correct I guess
— cynicism isn’t wisdom (@RealAbsurdism) July 6, 2021
this was not dumb – this was adorbs ❤️💛💚
— autodidactosaur🦎 (@Zonker_B) July 7, 2021
This is actually very impressive logic. I hope you are proud of your little self.
— Linda (@iamnotlinda) July 7, 2021
Others shared stories of similar bizarre beliefs they had in their childhood:
My parents told my brother and me that frozen peas were candy. We used beg for “candy peas” after dinner and go in the back yard to toss them in the air and catch them in our mouths like absolute idiots.
— Erin/Yet another Bunnicula fan account (@perquinx) July 6, 2021
I thought I had super vision and could occasionally see germs. They were just eye floaties. 😓
— Uncle Todd (@The_DeathV3gas) July 7, 2021
I've thought this before and even wanted to make a fake documentary film about like the last guy doing this job being phased out for automation, just to see if people would think it was real
— Opentrain (@opentrain) July 7, 2021
When I was a kid I thought “Drinking and Driving” literally meant drinking any kind of liquid while driving was illegal. I yelled at my aunt for taking a drink if Pepsi while driving
— The Fudgecycle 𝒪𝒻 𝒽𝒾ℊ𝒽 𝓈𝓉.BLM#CallHerDaddy (@thefakewillswan) July 7, 2021
my mom told me that when the ice cream truck was playing music they were out of ice cream and i believed her, like an idiot
— tea ☕️ (@ahumblebunnie) July 6, 2021
7 year old me thought money laundering was when a criminal literally put blood-soaked money into a washing machine to clean it and distribute to their fellow goons.
— everything’s coming up milhannah (@a_newfaceinhell) July 6, 2021
Have any similar childhood stories to share? Tell us in the comments section.
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