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Childhood misconceptions

 
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I remember thinking that the Hunchback of Notre Dame was a position on a football team.

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We lived in New Mexico, went east to see family. I asked my dad "who irrigates all these trees?!"

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for years (because of the structure of my family) I was sure that cousins were all exactly 6 months apart from each other.
 
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My wife tells a story where she misheard a saying as a young child and for years thought it was "Does a bear sit in the woods?"

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My grandparents were divorced, so I never saw them at the same time, and I didnt realize the family relationship. I thought my grandpa and grandma were just random people my mother found and asked to be my grandma and grandpa.

For a long time my youngest daughter was convinced that our laying hens were all male, because of course they're "hims" (hens).
 
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When my wife and I got married i asked her to pick up some "loafa bread". After her having me repeat it about ten times, and her finishing laughing at me, she informed me that it was a "loaf of bread". I had only heard it spoke in my mommas southern draw for the first twenty years of my life.

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I thought when it rained in one place it rained everywhere on Earth at the same time. Then I saw a storm front coming in and it was raining as it came.
 
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Of course, in the 1950’s there were regular news reports about Castro’s Gorillas attacking in Cuba.

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John F Dean wrote:Of course, in the 1950’s there were regular news reports about Castro’s Gorillas attacking in Cuba.



Not a childhood misconception, but a recent one because of somebody misreading the label on my cherry guava seeds, which I'd written as "CH. GUAVA" and asking me if that was a guerilla gardener.

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