When I was a kid I thought...

[Lady Amber]

When I was a kid me and my siblings watched this animated TV show called Liberty's Kids, which was about the Revolutionary War, and Benedict Arnold was in some of the episodes. I had never heard of the name Benedict before, so I thought it was a word for "traitor". ('Cause Benedict was a traitor.) So when his wife called him Benedict I was confused and wondered why his own wife would call him a traitor.

[Tam and Martin]

NO WAY! @Lady Amber I watched that show too. Loved it alot actually.

When I was a kid I wanted to be a scarecrow. For real

[MarianaRedWixi]

I thought that my parents *actually* had security cameras in our house that could monitor my every move... let's just say that lie kept me in line for a while...

[Ashleg]

*nervous laughing*
Until...somewhat recently, I thought that automatic sliding doors (at Target and such) were controlled by a person whose job was to sit in the security room and watch the camera for when someone was walking towards the door, then press a button to open it.

[Lady Amber]

Until a few weeks ago, I thought that shot glasses were called "shop glasses". I had never actually seen it written and it had always sounded like that was what people said.

[Luftwaffles]

Being fed with either American or British shows my entire early childhood, I thought I lived in one of those places until I was three

[Ashleg]

I don't remember anything I thought before I was three.

[Triss8]

When I was a kid I thought that nap time and bedtime were pointless.

[Triss8]

When I was a kid I thought that nap time and bedtime were pointless.

[alexandre]

When I was younger, I though it made sense to move my rooks out first in a chess game

[Delthion]

When I was younger, I had rock collections all over the neighborhood in which I lived back then, the neighbors even knew not to disturb them.

[Perifaen]

When I was younger I wouldn't eat syrup because it made me sticky and I hated that.

[Delthion]

When I was a child I talked like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child.

(Brownie points for understanding what I am saying. )

[Wylder Treejumper]

Incorrect   When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. Nevertheless, childish does not equal childlike. For, as everyone knows, of such...

[Delthion]

Different translations my dear Wylder!