I cannot believe I am going to tell this to other humans. When I was little, my older sister and I were talking about making babies. She asked if I knew how they were made and I said sure, the daddy pees in the mommy’s butt. She giggled a little, and let me go on believing this. She must have eventually told my dad, cause I got a mini version of the talk soon after.
When I was a little kid, I thought that the idea of color was invented sometime during the 1960s. All the pictures from when my parents were little kids are in black and white, so I thought that color hadn’t been invented yet. One magical day a scientist invented color and everything in the world turned color right then. My parents still can prove to me that they grew up in a world with color…
I’m not entirely sure of the timeline, but I think my belief in Santa Claus was perhaps very iffy at age 4 and virtually over by age 5.
But for some reason I was still able to entertain the notion of the Tooth Fairy, through age 5 or 6 or so. It just seemed much more plausible, somehow. A much more modest accomplishment – ergo, more likely to be true!
I remember when I was 4, in 1980, I thought that when it changed to 1981 we would see everything in black and white. This was because all the old films where black and white (must have been some sort of reverse logic).
I also thought that everybodies houses were all exactly the same as mine inside, right down to the furniture.