Haven't done any of these asksteem posts in a while so figured it was about time. I remember this question being asked on r/askreddit some time ago which resulted in a lot of fun replies, although I realize we're not really there yet with our userbase and maybe some would not want certain info out on an immutable chain it might still garner some replies anyway - maybe that's one of the fun things about being able to be anonymous which some upcoming social media platforms seem super against but on reddit it leads to a lot of great content cause users are free to express themselves however they want.
Another idea would be to have an account with a public posting key and it's own community so those abusing it would just get their comments muted but every once in a while someone would want to use it just to remain anon without having to create a new account for it - or maybe just create one if they want to use it more often for posts like these.
Anyway, so I was probably like 6-7 when I got into planting seeds and watching them grow and was super fascinated about it. I'd go out and pick up some sunflower seeds and for some period I'd literally focus so hard on it that I'd just wait for the seedling to pop out from the earth just to see it - and sunflower seeds were really fast to do so as they'd pop after a day already. I don't know if it's cause it was cold in Finland but they wouldn't survive long (it might've been autumn when I attempted it and this only lasted for a short period until I lost interest) so I'd go out pretty often to find new seeds to retry it thinking that was just a bad batch or whatever. My dad used to go out with me and this one time we found a really big seed and I got pretty excited cause he told me that it meant that one grows faster too.
Back home I put it into the soil, watered it and just stared at it for so many hours I fell asleep on the couch next to it instead of in my bed. When I woke up the next morning I couldn't believe what the fuck I was seeing, there was this maybe 20 centimeter palm tree looking plant coming out of it. Thoughts racing I was thinking back to that cartoon of that magic bean cartoon and wondered if I had stumbled upon one of them as well somehow. I ran to tell my parents that we should replant it outside cause this baby is gonna wreck the house if we keep it inside only to see my dad not being able to keep a straight face as I said it and it slowly dawned on me that he had put the plant in there himself.
Alright so this may not really be the best story for the question, but I couldn't really come up with something else I believed when I was a kid. I might add a comment if I do but interested to hear if you remember something. :D
What's something you believed as a kid that turned out to be wrong later?
PS. Do you think #asksteem would make for a good community if I got one started and curated it? r/askreddit is one of the most popular subreddits and one can spend hours there reading through content and comments are amazing most of the time. Let me know!
As a very young boy, I always believed that life will just happen they way we plan it but I grew up to discover that life is really full of surprises. There were many other things I believed though!
Trust me, an #asksteem community will top the chart in terms of engagement if created; provide engagements are being curated.
Looking back at musing.io, you discover that it had a great deal of engagement before it went defunt.
This kind of initiative I believe fosters engagement.
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Very well then!
I will be anticipating the #asksteem community or maybe website!
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Oh wow. So this one is pretty weird.
I grew up with a single mother and she kinda avoided telling me about the birds and bees until a very late age (perhaps 8 or 9). When I asked her how she had me, she just said "I wanted you very very much". So my 4-year-old brain decided that, well, that's how reproduction works. A woman can decide to become pregnant and if she wants it hard enough, she gets a baby. Now, what are boys for then? Simple. Someone has to lift the heavy things and reach the tall shelves and help take care of babies.
I think that this misconception shaped my view of gender roles and gender dynamics at a very young age. In a way, I think that in many ways it still has its impact on my view of the world.
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In our time in school life, I believed that if you eat eggs before attending the exam, the exam result will be bad. It was believed by almost all of us here. But as I grew up I knew it was wrong and a social prejudice. Ha ha ha, really when we were kid, how much we believed in something. now it comes smiles when we remembrance the time of kid.
Yes, I am also believe that #asksteem community will make another opportunity for creating more engagement with something.
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Sounds like a superstition :D I've heard of many similar ones as well like not whistling when it's dark out cause it will "call" bad spirits towards you.
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When I was around 4, my mom told me that when I was still inside her belly, a monster came at night while she was sleeping and that it tried to get me. Those kind of mythical monsters are the ones who eat fetuses from moms’ tummies. Anyway, she said she woke up while it was scratching her tummy and that my dad woke up too and tried to kill it but it got away. She then showed me “scars” on her belly that looked like some monster with long claws did it. I believed it for years and probably I was 10 when I learned it was a fake story and that those “scratches” on her belly were actually stretch marks. -_-
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Yeah, I even told my classmates about it T_T But of course since we were kids, they believed that bs as well hahaha
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At the time I was a child, I believed that nothing in life changed and that only our body changed. It is as if you believe that driving a vehicle does not require a gear shift or acceleration and is only driven by our thinking.
Yeah..sure.. #asksteem would make good community and make perfect engagement. We can find different answers from various peoples.
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Hi there! I think this will be a good topic in various incidents that has been lurking into our young minds which later turned out to be something. I would be great to hear their stories here. So go for it!
When we were kids, we were supposed to sleep earlier so we can catch Santa Claus at midnight! We used to write long letters and the things we wanted as a gift. Sad to say, we were so excited we couldn't sleep. And before midnight, our eyes would be heavy enough to fall asleep. When we woke up, it was already sunrise and we would run towards the Christmas tree to find our gifts. Well, that was history. I soon found out that the joke was on us.
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I used to believe that I was an alien and no one wanted to tell me the truth, in a way I still feel that way
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Growing up and seeing kids of all sizes(ages) really did bother me, like who decides who measures what and who cries when and stops when. MY curiously must have driven nuts and I wasn't going to take any more time reasoning on my own when I could approach someone and get the answers correctly.
I had been to supermarkets but rarely past the food section, so bluntly mum had the courage to tell me that the upstairs more so all the other sections were full of babies of all sizes and one needed pick their preferred type/size and all that. You should have seen me few moths later insisting we should go upstairs and find a baby that could not cry the hell out like our neighbors.
Hey, #asksteem would really bring a thing here on steem.
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One time when lil' me was crying, my cousin told me if I cry too much I'd start crying blood... needless to say that just made lil' me cry more
Also believed that cartoons were real. I have a vague memory of me staring at my hand wondering "where are my outlines?"
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I believed that Life was fair to every "good" person in this World. That only bad things happened to "bad" people. Boy was I wrong and missed the boat on that one ;)
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I once woke up after a dream where I had this really cool cap gun, I believed I had the cap gun in real life and spent the whole day looking for it around the house....
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When I was really young I thought all dogs were boys and all cats were girls.
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When I was really
Young I thought all dogs were boys
And all cats were girls.
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@acidyo, Kindly find my below response for your reference.
https://steempeak.com/racism/@chireerocks/being-a-black-is-a-sin-or-or-what-s-something-you-believed-as-a-kid-poetic-response
Have a blessed time ahead.
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I believed people are good and love is the foundation of everyone's thoughts and actions. I believed people don't lie this much and they stand behind their words.. I also believed we are in this together.
I thought we are humans but we are just creative animals.
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