re: What are some of the things you believed as a kid growing up?

Don't need any counseling.

The difference between growing up in the 60's and 70's versus growing up in the 90's and 2000's

If you flashed your headlights at a car without their lights on, a gang would kill you as part of their initiation.

My dad had me convinced that picking my nose would stretch out my nostrils.

thought we would all be dead before we graduated HS. Nuclear war.

Neighborhood had several bomb shelters full of porno rags where teens hung out.

That when you became an adult, you'd mature and have your shite together. As I've gotten older, I finally realized that most people never actually mature after high school and most don't have their shite together(including myself)

That aerosol cans hurt the Ozone layer. That pro wrestling was real. That pretty girls never went #2.

I always believed that if you peed on a pile of dung, germs from the poop would swim up your pee stream and get into your body.

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That my parents could kill me and get away with it! I knew they would get arrested, but I figured at the trial my dad would stand up and say, " Let me tell you what the boy did!", and after he finished the judge would say, "Yep! he had to die. Case dismissed"

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What in THEEE frick did they do to you?

That if I kept doing it, I'd go blind.

I do need reading glasses now, though.

I believed that people wore coats in hot weather to cover up their b.o.(instead of they have b.o. because they wear coats in hot weather).

I told my bratty little sister that they used a nine-inch needle for tetanus shots. I also told her that a booster had a needle that went through your arm, then they bent the needle into a hook and put the end back in your arm.
She went to the Naval Hospital in Hawaii for a routine tetanus shot and started screaming. Mom said "it is only a booster" and she screamed even louder.

I got a whipping for what I did.