saw this tweet & i was so entertained by all the answers.

when i was like 10 my friends used to print out amazing drawings from dA but when i logged on, all i saw were amateur sketches instead. so i made a thread asking why all of the drawings ive seen so far were terrible & everyone blew up. i didnt understand why everyone was incredibly mad lol. out of the hundreds of scathing comments i received, only one person was kind enough to comment along the lines of "yeah i do agree my drawings arent that good. i keep posting here to encourage myself to draw more. i hope i can improve my skills quickly! :)"

i guess from then on whenever i see a terrible comment on the internet i just assume the OP is most likely young & naive. good self reminder to not be so reactionary lol

I though that money laundering was literally putting your money on a washing machine. Because of that, I though my granfather was commiting a crime everytime he forgot coins in his pocket and put in the washing machine XD

Power outlet protectors.

I mean, think about it from the viewpoint of a five year old kid. You put a stopper in the tub or sink to keep the water in, the same must apply to power outlets so electricity doesn't fall out of the wall.

Parents love to remind me of this one, lmao.

There's a wedding tradition in my country where you lift the groom up by his legs and cut off the toes of his socks for good luck. When my parents got married, I was absolutely HORRIFIED to see my dad get "assaulted" by all the wedding guests, because I thought they were gonna cut his actual toes off. I couldn't believe that all these people would cheer for him to get mutilated. I was pretty shook afterwards, I had just turned 3 years old and live "mutilation" was a bit more than I could handle.

Fortunately he still has all his toes.

I used to think when people were sentenced to life in prison + more years, they would have to stay in prison for however long after they died. So like, if someone was sentenced to life + 25 years, their remains would stay in prison for 25 more years

When I was a kid (around 5 or 6) I was asked to "cut the cards" and I broke down crying as I got a pair of scissors, thinking that I had to destroy my brand new deck of uno cards...

I used to think pansy flowers were called PANTsies.

Also, I thought I had multiple hearts in my body, but was actually just feeling my pulses, lmao.

aww, i can't remember any of my childhood misunderstandings :(

I was pretty shook when i discovered i didn't have those tiny chicken hearts you eat at bbqs all over my body.

That was also my biggest misunderstanding as a kid, i thought we all had those tiny hearts inside us and when you die, they cook them for others to eat since i also thought eating hearts would be good for your heart's health.

Now that i grew up, when i think back, that was pretty messed up.

I was a wimp at Disneyland as a kid. I used to think that the giant Monstro the Whale on the Storybook Boats ride was actually eating the people.

I also thought they were actually going to SHRINK the audience in the now extinct Honey I Shrunk the Audience and had to be taken out of the theatre crying.

I remember thinking that if I ate some kind of seed or leaf of a plant, the plant would start to grow inside of me. I have no idea how my parents were able to get me to eat my vegetables without too much of a fuss!

My great-grandmother would tell me not to swallow grape seeds because she thought that! I think she still believes it up to this day :p

i misunderstood those injury lawyer commercials where they would claim to help someone injured in an accident. i cant remember the exact wording they used but i assumed if i called the number they advertised when my uncle got injured in a car crash that the lawyer would fix it and make him all better.

i also misunderstood how bangs and hair worked. i had short blunt cut bangs for as long as i could remember and one day wanted to have "no bangs" which was basically the hairstyles where the persons bangs had grown out with their hair. nobody ever corrected me when i talked about it so my mind came to the literal conclusion of "no bangs" and promptly took a pair a scissors to my hair and cut it to the root.

Passed by an old memory today and remembered this: I saw a water tower in the distance and called it a castle. My parents had no idea what I was talking about.

Wow, I'm glad to learn I'm not the only one who thought I had multiple hearts! At least I didn't think they got cooked and eaten, though. :P

My dad convinced us that if we talked while a movie was recording in the VCR (ah ye olde VHS) that we'd ruin the movie and instead of movie we'd only ever hear ourselves. It worked really well as a silence tactic until my sister and I had a rousing conversation with our Barbies while Aladdin was recording. We freaked out, dad laughed, and then we watched the movie a few weeks and realized we couldn't hear ourselves on it. xD

Oh that several hearts thing reminded me!

I used to think that the inside of the human body was hollow. Like the body was a layer of skin and then just empty space, to be filled up with food when you ate. So when I was full and wanted dessert, I'd be like "oh i think there's some space left right here points at my wrist" My grandma still brings it up at every family dinner. It's a cute story :)

When I was a kid I used to think that those piles of hay covered in white plastic were just giant marshmallows. So whenever my parents and I would go for a drive in the countryside id say, " Look mom!! A marshmallow farm!!."

Where I lived there was a body of water called Nantucket Sound and a tv/video store ALSO called Nantucket Sound. Needless to say when protesters came around about not installing new machines that would scare away fish I was INCREDIBLY confused as to how what would apply to a store that only sold TVs.

It took me ages to figure out that pickles are cucumbers. ¯(ツ)/¯