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15.
I used to think that people on the TV could see me when I was really little. One time an aardvark puppet on this show said “I love your new hair” and I’d just come into the room after having a haircut. Proper freaked me out.
— Alice Rose (@alicelucyrose_x) September 6, 2018
14.
I thought that when someone choked a bit and said something had gone down the wrong way that we must have a food tube and a drink tube and I wondered how our bodies knew what to do with chunky vegetable soup
— Ex Bat Hen (@exBatHen) September 6, 2018
13.
Until I was 18 I thought ‘misled’ was pronounced mize-uld. Meanwhile I’d *heard* mis-led, but never (knowingly) seen it written down, or even considered how I’d write it. Worst of all, I was disabused of the misconception by Richard Whiteley, on Countdown, making a joke about it.
— Jenny Andrew (@DrAndrewV2) September 6, 2018
12.
I thought if I put my fingers in my ears that no one could hear me talk!!
— Dawn Geddes writes.. (@dawnsgeddes) September 6, 2018
11.
I thought that you could take money out of a cash machine anytime you needed some. It seemed odd that people worried about the cost of things when they should just visit the cash machine more frequently.
— Simon Thorpe (@srthorpe) September 6, 2018
10.
I always thought quicksand was going to be a big problem.
— Drew Hegwood (@bigbankhank87) September 7, 2018
9.
When you had the map of the world flat on a wall. I thought that was one side of the planet and would ask “but whats on the other side”. This was before I saw a globe.
— Sabriel (@SabrielClayr) September 6, 2018
8.
When I was very small I thought that ‘moving house’ meant literally moving your house to a different place. I then imagined there must be a secret button somewhere that you pushed to enable this and set about trying to find it.
— This? (@adorn_the_sky) September 6, 2018
7.
I thought newsreaders could see us because they were looking straight at us. I stuck my tongue out at Peter Sissons once and then was so scared he was going to tell my mum
— Jenni Dunsmore (@yennimimi) September 6, 2018
6.
My dad told me if you walk through a cloud you get stuck and I didn’t question it until I was 17
— jro (@glocparty) September 6, 2018