Part 12 is the loneliest number you could ever do

[aphanon_meme]

Woah, did Part 11 seem to end without warning, or was it just me?

The challenge is extended until Part 14 maxes, then a poll will be going up! Thanks for being patient, people who have already entered! :)

edit, 5/28:
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edit, 5/27:
And, I guess this needs to be said again:

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ITT: Stupid things you believed when you were little

[(Anonymous)]

(In honor of the "Why do you call Russia "Prussia"" person)

-When I was little, I thought that USSR stood for "United States of Soviet Russia".

-Less history/geography related, but I also thought that if we got a late frost in the spring, it could kill the buds and we'd have a leafless summer.

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[(Anonymous)]

-God

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[(Anonymous)]

Have I said this here before?

I used to think "Highlights: Fun with a Purpose" said "Highlights: Fun with a Porpoise" and I was always looking in each issue for some trace of a porpoise... I was so confused... "How do we have fun with the porpoise if he isn't in the magazine?!"

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[(Anonymous)]

that concentration camps couldn't have been too bad because "the US had concentration camps for Japanese people and they didn't die a lot!"

(but keep in mind this was in elementary school, where the 'lesson plan' for the Holocaust was... "Hitler was a very mean man who liked people with blonde hair and blue eyes, and didn't like Jewish people, Gypsies, or people that were different from him! He sent them to concentration camps, where they were forced to work and many people died!" (... read this in a very YOU ARE TALKING TO A CHILD voice)

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[(Anonymous)]

remainders in division

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[yuuago]

I thought that there were fairies all about, mostly hiding in trees and things, and that most people didn't see them because they didn't pay enough attention. So I was always going about staring at trees and bushes and trying to see them. :|

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[(Anonymous)]

that the white 'cloud' train.. things (I still don't know quite what they are *DUMBASS*) that planes leave in the sky was actually god flying through the air. I don't know why I thought that, though, since I never did explain what the clouds were supposed to be in relation to god.

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[(Anonymous)]

-When I was really young, before I could read, I think, I thought Africa was called South America, and vice versa.

-Also map-related: In first grade, the teachers had sat us all down in front of a map of our state, and were talking about it. I... wasn't listening at all. So I look up and see this map! Up till then I only knew the name of the city I lived in, and what the state I lived in looked like. I thought the entire state was called by this city name, because, hey, it's where I live, right? I live in *city,* and the place I live in looks like this! Anyway, I make a connection and raise my hand, still not paying any attention to the topic at hand. The teachers tell me to wait until after class to tell them. So I wait. And once everyone had left, I ran up and pointed to the map, proclaiming proudly, as if it was all my own reasoning, "I LIVE THERE! 8D"
...
I'm actually STILL embarrassed about this... xD; No duh you live there, idiot...

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[(Anonymous)]

I thought Santa was real.

Also I thought sex was two naked people lying next to each other. And then when my mum actually explained..."HE PUTS HIS WHAT IN WHERE???"

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[mangolollipop.livejournal.com]

La Llorona and the chupacabra. They scared the shit out of me because my grandmother liked to tease me when I was little.

Re: ITT: Stupid things you believed when you were little

[(Anonymous)]

- Factories produce clouds.
- At the end of autumn people start collecting the leaves that had fallen down, painted them green and glued them back to the trees the following spring.

OTL

Re: ITT: Stupid things you believed when you were little

[(Anonymous)]

i thought new york city was the entirety of new york.

America Had No Trees

[(Anonymous)]

- seriously, I thought America was ALL city, and no trees at all.

- that England was part of the American South. OTL

- Japan was as big as China, perhaps bigger

- that ghosts and witches would get me if I didn't finish my food. (thanks mom)

- Snow was sweet, like candy

- Honey tasted like Cheez Whiz

Re: ITT: Stupid things you believed when you were little

[(Anonymous)]

(Africa/S.America anon) Reading all this is turning up all kinds of stupid things I used to think, so I'll write some more xD

-I used to think that God looked like The Guy On The Quarter. You know. George Washington. With a white robe on. Us Quaker kids were not really shown pictures of the Heavenly Father, ok? xD

-I'd heard a kid boasting about how he'd tricked the tooth fairy with one of his uncle's old teeth, so I thought I'd give it a go. I found a little white rock that I thought was a convincing canine, and stuck it under my pillow. I hadn't told anyone about it, so of course it didn't work. Later I rote a Valentine to the Tooth Fairy, 'cuz I thought she might like something to cheer her up on the 14th or something, I have no idea. It was really cool too, with heart-shaped teeth all over it. I neglected to tell my parents about it, so they didn't know, of course, and the tooth fairy never got my Valentine. I think I reasoned that I needed to have a tooth under there too to get her to come. xD;

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[anasyrma.livejournal.com]

I used to think that California was part of the Philippines, and I mixed Tagalog and English together a lot. Whenever I said something in Tagalog and someone in my kindergarten class didn't understand me, I thought they were weird and needed to speak more English.

LITTLE DID I KNOW..........

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[acordak.livejournal.com]

I believed you couldn't be friends with someone in a grade lower than you (thank, mom, you fucking douchebag).

Re: ITT: Stupid things you believed when you were little

[(Anonymous)]

That the world was just as "innocent" as it appeared to be.
(I'm referring to the childlike naïveté that made you unable to comprehend the depth of cruelty.)

Re: ITT: Stupid things you believed when you were little

[(Anonymous)]

I thought Santa was nice-god and God was like Satan.

Somehow this occured even though I was raised by athiests.

Re: ITT: Stupid things you believed when you were little

[(Anonymous)]

Swedefag here.

*As a very small child I was in complete disbelief when my mom said Roxette was from Sweden. How the hell could they be Swedish if they sang in english!? People could never EVER learn a second language!

*When I got a little older I assumed that since we learned english in school, it could only mean that the english kids learned Swedish in their schools!

*I thought America and England were the same country, because they speak english in both places. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why that country had two names...

*I thought the Brits spoke with an accent while the Americans spoke TRUE english! (It seems many adult Americans still think this...)

*My grandmother told me the Danes were the niggers of Scandinavia, which lead me to believe that only black people lived in Denmark.

*I though only old people believed in God, and that religion would die out completely with them.

*I thought people actually gave a shit about my country..... ;_;

Re: ITT: Stupid things you believed when you were little

[(Anonymous)]

Used to think the United Kingdom was like the Animal Kingdom, leading me to believe that the UK was this magical place where they had carnivals all the time. Ahaha... *is an American*

Re: ITT: Stupid things you believed when you were little

[(Anonymous)]

Black people only lived in Africa
When I ate a fruit with seeds inside, said seeds would sprout in my stomach and emerge through my mouth

oh noes

[ono-tachibana.livejournal.com]

- When I was really really young (about four years old) I didn't know they were others countries. I thought France was the world. So I thought everything I read, books, TV shows, were french-made, even though I realized there were differents languages /brb dying from shame
- Santa Claus
- The Little Mouse : Every time I loose a milk tooth, I have to put it under my pillows, during the night, the little mouse will take my tooth in exchange of a gift.
- The ghost of my grandmother was watching over me in my room and protecting me when I couldn't sleep because I was afraid of monsters.
- I thought we become old people first then we become adults (because when I saw my grandparents pictures, I thought they were my parents before, then they)