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What's the funniest belief you had when you were a child ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by Merlu@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was always phlegmy and coughing as a kid so I became convinced I had diphtheria and would die soon, and thought it would be terrible to let my parents know this sad fact. Turns out it was because 1980s parenting meant smoking anywhere and everywhere at all times and cigarette smoke makes me ill.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Wow. When I started doing theatre in 1983 smoking was becoming evil. Restaurants were required to have nonsmoking sections. The drama instructor quit and was a militant anti-smoker.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Yes there was starting to be some pushback and health education, but most people still smoked at home, and literally everywhere in the home. Your child's bedroom was fair game. It's a terrible thing to be in the car in the winter with the windows rolled up and your parent chain smoking away until your eyes swell shut. I know an older nurse who used to work at the pediatric hospital, and she would follow the pediatrician on rounds with an ashtray as he rounded on these children, trying desperately to keep the ashes off the children.