1. I thought that Time Zones existed because of special relativity. In other words, people didn't just refer to their times as different numbers, but they were actually however many hours in the past/future, and this is why you could take a 5 hour flight and when you arrived, it was only 2 hours after you left.
I think I might've gotten this one from a Calvin and Hobbes strip, where his misunderstanding of it was the set up for a later punchline, but I didn't understand relativity enough to know
that was incorrect too. Hey, my mom says she's glad that at least I was thinking of things scientifically as a kid.
2. When I was 9, I thought that "hiatus" and "cameo" were Japanese words. Perhaps because I had only ever seen them in regard to video games or manga. "ia" and "eo" are commonly used in Japanese I guess, so it's not too weird.
3. 2013: I didn't really understand what furry meant, just thought it meant animal cartoon characters so when someone asked me if I was into furries I said yes. Then she sent me some giraffe lewds.
4. In like 2002, I thought that Carlton was the main character of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. No idea why, I mean the theme song is about Will Smith... Not sure at what point I found out Will Smith was the main character, but I was in denial about it for a while because I always liked Carlton more.
5. I used to think the Smogon user
n10sit was supposed to be "no one knows it", rather than "intensity".
6. 2013: That Jimmy Kimmel was funny
7. That game show contestants were not real people.
8. Similarly, in 2005 I believed that voice actors did not exist and that cartoons and anime like Pokemon, One Piece, Naruto, Code Lyoko etc. did not use them, because I couldn't believe the idea that real people were saying these embarrassing lines (and I even like all of these shows). The only thing that made me doubt it was that I couldn't think of how they'd create the voices otherwise. But since the animation is made without any actual actors involved, it made me think there was an equivalent process for the voices.
9. In 2014, that "Straya" was an actual region in Australia.
10. in 2010: that the Gambler's Fallacy meant that gambling was pointless because all good luck/bad luck balances itself out to equal. In reality that's actually the fallacy itself; i.e. wrongly believing that after a string of bad luck it's more likely that you'll have good luck, (his Scald burned 3 times in a row, there's no way it'll burn a 4th time) when the chance is actually the same every time. At least I hope that is what it is, otherwise I'll have to move this one to "misconceptions you still have" thread.
