I once actually thought that when movies and shows were developing, I thought that they were being made within the year of their release date. I didn’t know that these projects were sometimes done in advance or took years to make.
That when ‘Commercial Breaks’ happened during shows, I thought they meant that the actors needed a break before resuming. Not realizing that episodes are already made and commercials just interrupt things to just sell you shit.
When I learned food and drinks were energy for your body, I actually thought that when I got sleepy or tired, I just needed to drink or eat something. Not realizing that it wouldn’t have mattered.
1 Foreign countries are rich af because they can afford to eat food that cost 10,000 currency
It was just the Korean Won lmfao, that’s when I learned about the existence of other currencies, it was first time I stepped foot outside of China, I was 8.
2 You can just magically get money from checks, so why not write a bigger number?
Then my dad told me about bank accounts and you need real money for the check to work.
So no infinite money glitch sadly :/
Personal checks didn’t exist in China btw.
3 My mom put me in an afterschool program without telling me. I thought I got in trouble and was being punished, since I barely understood English words. I cried for like the hour duration of the afterschool program.
For context: In China, being held afterschool is a punishment if you didn’t memorize the story/poem that you were required to memorize.
4 Santa. Tbf I caught my parents pretending to be santa and leaving me a gift, I was half awake and saw them, but thought santa still existed, just didn’t visit me. Then at one party, I noticed “Santa” looked suspiciously similar to an uncle, who was no where to be seen. Also sounded exactly like the unclem
Then I eventually realized religions was just bullshit too.
5 I thought babies were conceived from kissing. Like maybe like you also had to sleep in the same bed then the souls of the couple bind and that somehow allows another soul to reincarnate into the womb of a woman.
Then I was like: what if mom kissed dad, do I have another sibling that’ll take the attention away from me?
Nope, later my mom told me she got forcibly sterilized by the goverment, no need to afraid of a little sibling.
And also I overheard classmates talking about porn lol and then I learned human anatomy
6 “Tell me the truth, son, I promise I won’t get mad”
That was a lie
Loading Screen Tips: Don’t trust your parents, it’s your closest blood-related liars
7 “Police are good” -nope
I remember those Hong Kong Drama shows… it’s always cops vs “bad guys”, the cops were always portrayed as good, and if its bad, its just a corrupt cop working for the criminals, then the “good cops” will find out and arrest the bad one.
Reality is they never investigate crimes you report, because who would spend their time catching a thief when they could just enjoy donuts and coffee.
Unless they get bored and wanna ruin innocent lives. Then they’ll harass you.
ACAB
How did the forced sterilisations work?
Also I used to think people got money by buying things, that’s what change was. Once a kid asked me for all of my money and I refused because I thought that would mean I could never make money again
The exact term my mom said was 結紮 (link to Wiktionary) (I didn’t even know of this word before she used it)
(I think she was talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubal_ligation)
My mom didn’t elaborate every tiny detail. Mom is weird af, she always tells me about One Child policy stuff as guilt-tripping, as in like “look how much I sacrificed for you, they would’ve stopped you from being born”, but then you press deeper and she doesn’t like to talk about it, must be uncomfortable to talk about the details or something like that.
I think you’re just told to go to an appointment and do the procedure. Or else government send people to take you there.
My mom told me she was supposed get a IUD after she has her first child (especially since her first one was a male so there’d be no exemptions, cuz in rural areas, if the first one was female, you could apply for an exemption.) She was told to go to some appointment in like 3-9 months after my older brother’s birth. But then she (and presumably also my father and older brother) just went from Taishan (rural) to Guangzhou (city), then she never went back to Taishan until she had me.
I honestly am still not sure what exactly happened. I think that whole ordeal was probably very traumatizing so I doubt mom even remembers all the details.
I think its a combination of jurisdictional issues, and government finding out about my existence a bit too late to enforce the policy. I think It was the people from her village in Taishan was responsible for enforcing the policy, so I think being in Guangzhou, I don’t think the Guangzhou authorities cared about enforcing policy on someone not under their Hukou. Like I don’t think the central government really do the law enforcement, they just delegate shit to someone else, then if something goes wrong, they have a perfect scapegoat. They blame the local authorities and shield the central government from criticism.
My mom also once told me that, on the course of wanting to give birth to me, she allegedly bribed government officials so they’d “look the other way”? And once she told me she forged a IUD certificate so they thought she already had an IUD? And she also said someone nearly found out about the 2nd pregnancy, but the person felt it wasn’t his reponsibility so he didn’t report it, and deferred the enforcement to someone else, as in the “not my job” attitude to it.
Honestly idk what even is real, not sure if my mom even remembers correctly, or if she might have exaggerated details as a part of a guilt-tripping thing to make me feel bad.
History is very blurry, sometimes things happens and afterwards we are like “okay what the hell happened?”, still trying to process the events…
I mean I wasn’t the only one, I think there are like tens of thousands of “‘illegal’ births”.
(Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihaizi I think there are a total of like at least 10 million of these “‘illegal’ births”)
In a way, it’s sort of like parents having drunk sex and you were “accidentally” born, except in this case, my parents did wanted me, but the government didn’t cuz “overpopulation” or some BS. I think most people “born illegally” don’t really talk about it, but I’m just weird and I get obessed with everything and I have an existential crisis because of this fact. I often think about that alt-timeline where I never existed.
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- If a lawyer’s client tells them they did it then the lawyer should just turn them in.
- After watching cars commuting in opposite directions, which seemed pointless to me, I thought everyone should just trade jobs so they live where they work.
- I thought girls had ballsacks without the shaft.
- I thought you could make a car that didn’t need gasoline by attaching a magnet to the back and then attaching another magnet with an arm so they repel each other. Imagine my disappointment when I built a prototype and it didn’t work.
magnet to the back and then attaching another magnet with an arm so they repel each other
You just invented the Maglev xD
After watching cars commuting in opposite directions, which seemed pointless to me, I thought everyone should just trade jobs so they live where they work.
Unironically has some truth to it. As someone who feels strongly about minimizing my commute, I am baffled about how many people I have known who have long commutes for no significant reason.
Rarely there will be a reason like “My kids have a better school here”, but often after digging a little I find out someone is actually paying higher rent and commuting 45m+ to a lower rent area because moving is a hassle or some similar motivation. I knew a guy who commuted 3 hours one way in Alaska because he liked having a big yard. Like, when do you see it? You get home and immediately sleep.
Absolutely crazy to me. Never more than 30 minutes again unless I truly have no choice.
I thought girls had ballsacks without the shaft.
Eric Cartman, is that you? There was an episode where he tried to kick a girl in the balls. It did not work.
I thought you could make a car that didn’t need gasoline by attaching a magnet to the back and then attaching another magnet with an arm so they repel each other. Imagine my disappointment when I built a prototype and it didn’t work.
A perpetual motion machine! I love it!
i do wonder why more people don’t just live where they work, spending and hour or 2 every day just shuffling inbetween work and home never made sense to me.
is it just an affordability thing? if some real estate mogul wasnt a rent-seeking piece of shit and just built a business around building/selling as many quality homes/apartments as possible for a decent profit (instead of maximized extraction at every level, as it is now) wouldn’t more people chose to live closer to work?
Okay so in our case it’s very California-specific. We managed to buy a house (hooray!) after the housing crash. Because of the way California handles property taxes, we will never move unless we decide to leave California for good. If we take a job that is not close to us, too bad, we’re factoring commute into the offer, because we can’t move. My husband seriously considered a job that would require either a 1.5 hour drive or train ride because the money was amazing but ended up taking a much lower-paying WFH job, and the commute was a huge factor.
I would choose to work closer to where I live, not the other way around unless the only available job was hours away. That said, there are jobs closer to home than my current job, but I think they kinda suck.
I wasn’t sure why “youth in Asia” was such a popular topic.
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People were talking about euthanasia.
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My non-native-speaker girlfriend made this mistake 😭 “Why would you want to ban Youth in asia???”
That Vitamin C evaporated from orange juice if you didn’t drink it in the first 5 minutes. Still believed it until 2 months ago :')
That all people are equal in the eyes of the law/justice
A shame to admit this, but I believed in God until I was 12.
That my parents loved me.
They still don’t!
I thought that fire inheritly pushes things, and that all you needed to do to make a rocket, was to take a sizable flame, like a campfire or something, flip it upside down so that the flame pointed down instead of up somehow, and attach it to the bottom of something.
I mean, it’s kinda true. A rocket just makes fire which expands and pushes whatever it burns out to make it go fast. You got the fire, the fire pushes things away from whatever you’re burning and the rest is just optimisation.
If you manage to make a helium balloon that floats in the air, attach a burning log fire to the bottom of it and enclose it in a way that the air intake is on the top and outlet is on the bottom you’ve made an engine that you just need to aim with a ballast weight.
Still wrong, but you were onto something.
Its upside down you know. The rocket engine fires upwards and what you see is after it pushes back, Newton’s First Law and all that (equal and opposite reaction).
If it pushed down, it wouldn’t work in space cos there’s nothing for it to push against.
Some Outer Wilds vibes here…
Well in theory with a big enough campfire it would work. So you weren’t entirely wrong.
This is amazing. I love the idea that a bon fire big enough could change the earth’s orbit.
Yours made me chuckle
Neighbour took me out on a dog walk on a hill and to stop me stepping on rabbit shit she told me that was where baby rabbits came from. Took a few years to untangle that in my brain!
I was 15 years old (jk I was about 5)
That adults were intelligent
I fell for that old manufactured myth about the average anount of spiders swallowed per year which was designed to show how easily misinformation spreads.
There’s still people who don’t know it’s a fake fact. It worked a bit too well, I guess it was even easier than they anticipated.
First for me
I believed babies were conceived by kissing. When I first released genitals might be involved, I was in disbelief, thinking something like “No, it cannot be. This would be too stupid. Then it must be kissing that makes you pregnant”.
That things would get better with time.
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