When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.

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      I think u being a Lil too harsh on yourself, when I was a kid I thought bank receipts could be turned in to get money😂

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    That encountering quick sand in real life was a real possibility every day.

    Bonus: My kid doesn’t believe that Santa is magical, he just has really advanced technology.

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      Clarke’s third law. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Quicksand thing is fucking stupid though.

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    That male orgasm was painful. I got this idea from seeing their o-face somewhere and assuming it indicated pain.

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      This is why everytime we wanna do it we really mean it because it’s a huge sacrifice /s /jk

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    I grew up with a family that didn’t have a lot of luxuries when I was young. We had three channels on TV, so we didn’t spend a lot of time watching TV. So I didn’t get to watch a lot of pop culture content for about the first 7 or 8 years of my life.

    So one of the first memories I have as a kid is in hearing music on the radio, record player, cassette player or any sound system … I understood that it was previously recorded and performed by other people somewhere else.

    What I thought was that all the sounds were generated by human voices. Guitars? Pianos? Trumpets? Brass sounds? Violins? even Drums or percussion. I thought all of it was people just making sounds with their voices.

    I’m Indigenous Canadian so my parents didn’t have musical instruments, a couple of uncles played the guitar and fiddle … but by the time I was young, they no longer played these instruments and had them. I never knew or understood musical instruments really until I was about 8, 9 or ten. Up until then, I just thought all music was just people with amazing and usualy human voices.

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        This is always my answer to this question. I thought radio stations must have been the busiest places with all those bands coming and going!

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    The semaphore homunculus lived in the stop lights at intersections.

    In my Superman onesie (w/ cape), I could fly, but was never brave enough to launch from a high enough step on the stairs. I knew I was flying, but…

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    One of my brothers was friends with a pair of twins named Eric and Ryan, but I thought that they were a single entity that somehow had two bodies known as American Ryan

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    Growing up, we had a neighbor in the Air national guard who was a boom operator on KC-135 refuelers, meaning he controlled the boom that comes out the back of the airplane and transfers fuel to other aircraft. The boom operator lays face down on a bench and looks out a window in the back of the plane to control the boom.

    When I learned that they “operate on their belly”, I somehow interpreted that to mean he performed medical operations on people’s bellies.

    It didn’t even make sense to me at the time but I figured there must be some special reason that the operation had to be done while airborne and I was impressed that our neighbor was not only a doctor but an airborne surgeon who specialized in this one belly surgery that couldn’t be done on the ground.

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    I thought our eyes worked by projecting some kind of energy beam that scanned objects, like how Superman’s X-ray vision is sometimes drawn.

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    That there were little gnomes inside the doors of the cars and that they were in charge of raising and lowering the windows, especially in the automatic cars.