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A few of the crazy things I've believed.

12/23/2017

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Recently I wrote about how, as a kid, I believed that Sea-Monkeys were genuine hominids I could purchase and reconstitute with tap water. But that's certainly not the limit of the ignorance and confusion I've demonstrated through the years.
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"Wait. What?"
As a small child, I thought that when I went into an elevator, the outside world rearranged itself at the touch of a button. I wasn't moving between floors; I was witnessing instant redecoration. Yes, this reveals both a loose grasp on reality and an alarming level of narcissism.

I believed that men were physically incapable of crying.

There was an air vent in my room up near the ceiling, and I thought my mother could watch me through it, somehow.

Because my neighbor Lisa Perez told me so, there was a time when I thought that moss was gravity.

As a kid, I once got hold of my mother's unattended lit Lucky Strike cigarette. I picked it up, clamped my mouth on the unlit end, and blew. Unclear on the concept.

I had a set of magic markers that I believed were truly magic. Their powers were a little nebulous, but I treated those pens with reverence and kept them in a bathroom cabinet.

Back in the day, some cereal boxes included a novelty cardboard record you could cut out and play on a record player. Since the medium was somewhere between paper and audio, I thought if I drew pictures on those records, they would somehow play a narration of what I'd drawn. Spoiler alert: it doesn't work.

Credit cards were expensive to buy, but once you purchased one, you could get whatever you wanted with it. (Wouldn't that be nice?)

Believe me when I say that this is an incomplete list of my misperceptions and delusions. And I'm sure I'm still adding to it today, fooling myself here and there in ways I may never even recognize.

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Andrew Duvall
12/23/2017 09:31:18 pm

Mis conceptions have always been a part of real life. If all your thoughts were accurate, think how boringly regular life would be. I love to create misconceptions in my head just in case I may need one. (Grade 3)

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Sara Rosinsky link
12/24/2017 06:19:13 am

A characteristically positive angle. :)

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Tim S
12/24/2017 01:04:56 am

I thought a tornado was an animal that looked exactly like an armadillo and came into your house while you were in the basement to throw furniture around the place.

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Sara Rosinsky link
12/24/2017 08:12:00 am

I love it. I wonder if you heard some story about a tornado in Amarillo, Texas, and that's where the armadillo concept came from.

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The Birdman of Alcatraz
12/24/2017 08:05:19 am

Misconception-- that's the technical term for teenage pregnancy.

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Sara Rosinsky link
12/24/2017 08:12:49 am

Heh.

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