#childhood beliefs

[12timetraveler]

When i was a kid I used to believe that one side of your pillow would cause nightmares so if you had a nightmare you needed to flip your pillow over to sort of recharge so that you were sleeping on the good dream side of the pillow and the bad dream side could drain of it's nightmare energy. Eventually the good side would become the bad side but then you could just flip the pillow and you'd have that nice fresh good side.

This belief stopped me from having multiple nightmares long into jr high maybe even high school. By convincing myself this was true, I made it true.

Anyway I wish I still could convince myself this is a thing because I've had nightmares every night this week, and flipping my pillow has done nothing.

#mj rambles #when i was a kid #childhood beliefs

[curiousorigins]

I feel the need to inform you guys that due to my unrestricted access to books, awkwardly high reading level in childhood and a well cultivated love of horror starting pre-school; I had encountered Dracula by Bram Stoker in book form long before every hearing of the Lady who swallowed a Fly.

Why is that important? Because The Lady who swallowed the Fly ate things in the same order that Renfield did while he was trying to absorb life.

I knew Dracula was published before The Lady who Swallowed the Fly and thus concluded that the Lady had the same goals as Renfield, and that perhaps that book (and song) was inspired by Dracula.

I have yet to see this in connection made literally anywhere and I’ve kept an eye out since I was like 6 or 7.

Tbh I’m still certain that The Old lady was inspired by Renfield.

Links to Things if you aren’t familiar with them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Was_an_Old_Lady_Who_Swallowed_a_Fly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfield

#Dracula #Renfield #Children's Songs #Odd Coincidences #Connecting two unrelated things probably #Childhood Beliefs #I still kind of think that Renfield inspired that song #I'm bored so we'll see what the mutuals think of this #(Too bad I didn't think of this when Dracula Daily was still a thing.) #Probably would have heard a lot of opinions on this #Children's Songs and Nurseries often have horrific things around them #Like the Murder investigation around London Bridge Falling Down #And the Plague around Pockets full of Poseys #Hansel and Gretal being about child abandonment and people literally starving #(I learned this around the time I first encountered the Lady who Swallowed a Fly #So it seemed a reasonable conclusion.) #I Am OP #I Speak #Classic Literature

[the-kitten69]

#childhood beliefs #truth serum #lava #quicksand #trap doors #secret passageways #reality #weight gain #existential dread

[gallium-spoon]

I often see posts about things people thought were gonna be a much bigger deal in daily life when they were little kids. Like quicksand, I've heard a few different people say that they thought quicksand would be a common problem in the adult world.

Mine was being set on fire. I think it's because I had a fire safety video on VHS that I watched over and over like a regular movie when I was about six. Also school really emphasized stop drop and roll at about that same time. So as I kid I kinda thought adults just burst into flames or had ovens explode at them once a year or so

Six year old me would be astonished to learn I made it to 25 without being set on fire even once

#fire #childhood #childhood beliefs #misconceptions

[laughingblue12]

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[owlkhemy]

Because I was... gullible...

The Dumbest Things I Believed As A Kid

Uh, probably under the cut for length.

- That I could fly. (I watched too much Wonder Pets and jumped out of my crib once. Hurt my wrist on the way down. That may actually be one of my earliest memories...)

- That all animals laid eggs. I saw a robin's nest once and it changed my brain forever. I lied my kindergarten ass off about finding a mouse nest once... with bright blue eggs in it. I'm surprised my teacher didn't question me on it. (Maybe she thought I meant titmouse eggs, and that the blueness was a weird attempt at speckled white?)

- That I actually levitated once. No, past me, a random kid just picked you up and dumped you on the concrete, you just didn't see them coming or leaving.

- That Maria was real. If you're in any way familiar with my old writing (in which case, if you've found my writing blog, no you haven't /lh), you might or might not have a vague awareness of Maria, the spirit of my one character's sister. Well, when I was younger, I convinced myself and a friend that Maria was real, and we decided to do a whole fricking study on her. It was like a club, almost. I almost started a séance in the school library. Over a fictional mouse ghost.

- That I was ever alloromantic or allosexual. Most people don't use a shitty mood ring to choose who they have a crush on, or choose to be conveniently unlikely to be asked about it, or to not be crushing on anyone else's crushes, past me.

- That "ally" was basically whatever the opposite of your moral alignment was. I promise I had good reading comprehension and did not piss on the poor as a kid. But when your first encounter with the word is a video game manual that mentions an "enemy turned ally", with no prior knowledge of what an "ally" even was, you're going to have some preconceptions about its use.

- That the religion from my books was real and The Correct One. I feel bad for those people in Bancroft, Ontario, Canada who got to hear fifth-grade me shout "OH MY HYROSHIA" at a chunk of sodalite beside the only other friend I convinced to join me in The Way of the Author. I was basically a mini cult leader, which is really funny to think about. I obviously wasn't being a piece of shit about it. But it was definitely a cult. I still have the occasional trinket that reminds me of said fictional religion, like my red egg on a stand. But I'm definitely not religious. Pastafarian, at worst.

- That I could ever predict the future with dreams. Not only have my déja-rêvé moments gotten a lot less frequent (compare my seventeen in 2019 to my one in 2021), but I'm pretty sure the only really "solid" one I had was because I'd watched a rerun of a show and just not remembered the first time. Besides, my memory is a bit selective at best and actively hiding stuff from me at worst.

- That the world was ending, and more specifically, that a 22° halo was a sign of the end times. No, this wasn't in 2012.

I keep hitting "post" by accident on this, so I'm just going to leave it there. Expect a part 2, if I ever get rid of my butter fingers.

#a convo with owlkhemy #childhood beliefs #dumbest beliefs #my tagging system does not help at all with trying to get people to find these

[kindnessisstillhere]

Fallen Snow

I have a book of fairies,

Saved from and made when young,

Just pictures galore of them,

Even added to by friends, family,

And I love it, had fun creating.

But that’s not how I imagine fairies,

I’ve grown, changed, imagined anew,

Until fairies aren’t tiny and winged.

They’re falling snow to me,

Coming in flurries, working together,

Only seen in groups, blankets.

I’ve watched snow fall in awe,

In wonder of the purity out there,

Seen speckles on the pavement melt,

While other endure and get friends.

Even now I see snow and believe.

Let fairies fall and come join us,

If only for a short cold time.

#snow #fairies #snow fairies #childhood #childhood beliefs #poetry #poem

[siplifeslowly]

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[shu-bullshit]

Where will we be when we grow up?

#I don't ship them I'm just very sentimental about childhood friends stuff #I also have this head canon that Lisa changed her beliefs growing up while John didn't #my art #faith game #faith the unholy trinity #john ward #faith john ward #lisa pearson

[starry-bi-sky]

okay so i was thinking of a joke earlier about how in DPDC Amity Park's slogan "a great place to live" is not only city propaganda but also the city lording it over the rest of America for being normal. But then I remembered that, despite how many DCU Cities with heroes in it there are, the amount of cities in America without heroes still far outnumber the amount of cities in America WITH heroes.

So I did a little digging so the joke would still land. Something most heroes have in common is that they operate in major cities. What makes a major city? I found that the general consensus is that the population is roughly over or around a million. THEN I looked up the populations of cities in the DCU that I thought of off the top of my head. So Gotham, Metropolis, Starling City, Central City, Jump City. All of them ranked up to millions in population (most of them were in the tens of millions).

Amity Park's wikipedia describes it as being similar to specifically Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco.

Philadelphia's Population: 1.576 million as of 2021 Chicago's Population: 2.697 million as of 2021 San Francisco: 815,201 as of 2021

Whiiich means that Amity Park if we take that from canon, is probably a major city. There are approximately 19,000 cities in America with probably less than a hundred that are major cities. Adding the DCU major cities wouldn't skew the data too much.

Which MEANS that I can make the joke that Amity Park's "great place to live" is not only just typical city propaganda, but also its Amity Park lording it over the other major cities for being one of the only major cities that doesn't have problems bad enough to warrant a superhero or a vigilante. Cue stage left the Fentons and Phantom :)

Amity Parkers were probably SO proud that they didn't need a superhero. They didn't have to worry about things like 'world ending threats' and 'super-powered individuals' and 'staggering property damage'. And then enter Fentons.

It also could be used as an excuse for why nobody took notice to Amity Park getting ghosts if folks like me aren't huge fans of the notion of a media blackout via Tucker, Technus, or the US Government. Or if you want to keep Amity Park as its urban city self. Amity Park's news on ghosts gets drowned out in a week because there's news on more popular, well-known cities going on every other day. The shit going on in Amity Park is every other major city's regular Tuesday and it gets filtered as such.

#dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc #dpdc #plus amity suddenly going 'we have ghosts' could be seen as a case of city-wide FOMO finally hitting so nobody believes them #and thats if the belief of ghosts not being real is as strong as it is in dp canon #the media blackout could also be /city-induced/ too #where amity parkers are so proud of being 'normal' and 'not having superheros' that many of them try and deny the existence of Phantom #and the mayor and news sources themselves just. stubbornly refuse to let news of ghosts get out to the other cities #do you know how much shit they'll get?? they'll be a laughingstock! #gothamites would never leave them alone. neither would central city or the metropolitans or starling city or-- #the other big cities will make fun of them :( #my new favorite hc that stemmed from this is that every major city in the dcu is rivaling with each other #there's a lot you can experiment with this idea imo lmao #this whole post sums up my writing and thinking process pr well tbh #this stemmed because im making a childhood friends au short story doc and wanted to avoid the typical tropes about how AP went undetected #from the rest of the US. bc. im not a fan of the media blackout idea via tucker/technus/gov and i wanted to keep AP an urban city #so i had to come up with something else #hence me looking into DCU cities and how many there are and realizing that there is a decent amount of other cities other than the main #popular ones and being DELIGHTED because then i could use that as an excuse for why amity went overlooked. bc there are many cities with #heroes in it. so its not surprising if another city gets a hero TOO. plus the news also focusing on more popular heroes and cities so again #the news of amity getting a hero gets drowned out by whatever new thing the JL or someone from the JL did that week

[dylanconrique]

once tim meets lucy’s parents it's all gonna click for him why she got so defensive about his belief in her taking the detectives exam.

#*carly catalogs #once they start berating her in his presence it'll all make sense cause how the hell can you belittle your only daughter that way?????? #i can imagine them all sitting around a table at dinner and tim trying to take lucy's hand underneath but she pushes him away #keeping her own in her lap and anxiously fiddling them while she sits in silence and lets them continue to bully her while trying not to cr #i'm just thinking about the hoops lucy lept through all throughout her childhood just to please her parents and make them proud #but for some reason none of it has ever been enough #it's so hard to believe in yourself or believe anyone else could believe in you if your parents showed very little to no belief in you #i do hope we get a chenford meet the parents date and that tim will snap and defend THE HELL out of lucy to her ungrateful parents #i hope he tears them a new one fr #the rookie #the rookie s6 #tim bradford #lucy chen #chenford #otp: you know me so well

[pratchettquotes]

Holiday Theme: Happy Hogswatch

The boy gave the Hogfather an appraising stare as he sat down on the official knee.

"Let's be absolutely clear. I know you're just someone dressed up," he said. "The Hogfather is a biological and temporal impossibility. I hope we understand one another."

AH. SO I DON'T EXIST?

"Correct. This is just a bit of seasonal frippery and, I may say, rampantly commercial. My mother's already bought my presents. I instructed her as to the right ones, of course. She often gets things wrong."

The Hogfather glanced briefly at the smiling, worried image of maternal influence hovering nearby.

HOW OLD ARE YOU, BOY?

The child rolled his eyes. "You're not supposed to say that," he said. "I have done this before, you know. You have to start by asking me my name."

AARON FIDGET, "THE PINES", EDGEWAY ROAD, ANKH-MORPORK.

"I expect someone told you," said Aaron. "I expect these people dressed up as pixies get the information from the mothers."

AND YOU ARE EIGHT, GOING ON...OH, ABOUT FORTY-FIVE, said the Hogfather.

"There's forms to fill out when they pay, I expect," said Aaron.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

#DEATH #the hogfather #aaron fidget #hogfather #discworld #terry pratchett #santa claus #gifts #belief #reason #ritual #holidays #christmas #presents #impossible #information #parenting #children #childhood #growing up #trickery #a bit of seasonal frippery #i hope we understand one another #holiday theme: happy hogswatch #long quote

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

you are pitting Jesus and Santa Claus against each other. I am acknowledging Santa as both a mythic symbol of Christ and a cultural legend based upon a real man whose faithfulness to Christ was used by God to grant common grace not just to the people of Myra but throughout the entire world. we are not the same.

#- HK #I know anti-Santa people who are not smug but the anti-Santa influencers are getting smugger and smugger each year #my generation was not raised to cope with loss of childhood #pro-tip: it comes back when you have your own children #I know because I get a taste of it whenever I visit my friends’ kids #mobile #x #Christmas #Christianity #history #mythology #let kids believe in magic again #you know what believing in magic did for me? trained my heart to recognize the wondrous when I see it #trained me to accept that I don’t and can’t know everything #trained me to live by the faith of adherence when i cannot enjoy the faith of assurance (Matthew Henry) #I was the only person in any of my friend groups who ever believed in Santa #and you know why I didn’t feel betrayed to find out I’d misplaced my belief? because Santa is real. #someone moves even terrible parents to give good gifts to their children on the same holy day every year #someone moves the imagination to ensure that the darkest week of the year will produce the most ethereal lights #someone moves the ancient and forgotten back into our conscious present minds #and if you’re wondering whether I’m talking about Jesus or Santa that’s a GOOD thing! #that’s the whole point! #the Santa mythos *impacts* people all over the world. and that is an act of Providence whether you believe in God or not

[gallium-spoon]

I just remembered that when I was little

(due to a slight misunderstanding of geography and a somewhat more severe misunderstanding of physics, plate tectonics, and just generally how things worked)

I briefly believed that the Entire Gulf of Mexico was the impact crater left behind by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

#dinosaurs #childhood beliefs

[laughingblue12]

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[autism-alley]

augh found my old post abt pjo and disability from before the show came out but it was on ye olde blog so i’m literally just gonna copy and paste, 3, 2, 1—

ok now that i’ve got it on the brain, i want to talk about disability in pjo and specifically how calling percy jackson dumb or treating him as such is not only a mischaracterization, but ableism. as a quick note, i’m keeping this to just percy to avoid having this already long post be even longer, but there are other disabled characters in pjo worthy of discussion, though i hit many of the same points in this post. i bring up percy specifically because he is mostly the character i have seen people treat as stupid.

percy is a dyslexic teen with ADHD who comes from a low-income family, raised by a single mother, and deals with an abusive step-father. i cannot stress enough how much of his character is shaped by that experience, but as hard as it is to single out any one part, i am going to focus on his ADHD and dyslexia. this kid has nightmares of being forced to take tests in a straightjacket as teachers ask him if he’s stupid and withhold him from recess with his peers. he is constantly labelled as “troubled” and blamed for things he didn’t do or aren’t his fault. he is told, over and over again, even from trusted adults, that he is “not normal” (othering him). he bounces between schools. he struggles to make friends. he deals with bullying. he has difficulty studying and reading, even when invested. teachers struggle to connect with him and tend to just give up on him. these are real disabled experiences, and rick does a good job at presenting them in the pjo books. sometimes, it feels like everything is a struggle. you are living inside a system that not only is restricting, but actively works against and punishes you.

in contrast, CHB is a great example of how when environments meet the needs of disabled people, it hugely changes how disabled we are in that environment. demigod brains are hard-wired for ancient greek, not english, and they’re born impulsive, with high energy levels that help them survive battle—but aren’t very good for a classroom setting. but by having them read books in ancient greek, regularly do lots of training/physical activities, and have genuine opportunities to express themselves...they function pretty damn well. percy discovers that while he struggles academically, he is brilliant in combat and capable of saving the world numerous times—he is a hero. do you know how important that message is for disabled children? disabled adults, too? that we can be heroes?

it is here, in camp half-blood, that percy finds a place he belongs, that shows him his worth—finally, somewhere is built to not only include him, but to nurture and genuinely prepare him for the world outside its boarders. however, i think people forget that just because percy functions in the world of CHB and the gods, that does not mean he doesn’t face ableism in the mortal world—and that there is an entire group of people who see ourselves reflected in his character.

i could talk on for hours about how much being disabled shapes percy’s identity and how he interacts with the world—like how percy’s humor revolves around coping with his environment and actually displays a very low self esteem after being looked down upon his entire life. this kid doesn’t even have to say anything and he screams i had a neurodivergent childhood. but about 5-6 years ago, when i was more regularly tuned into the fandom, every time i saw someone call percy jackson dumb or an idiot, even jokingly, i raised an eyebrow, and now that the series is getting fresh coverage from disney+, i have wanted to make this post. so much of this kid’s life and personality comes from being treated like he’s dumb or incapable, so it’s troubling to watch part of the fanbase reflect the harmful parts of this character’s upbringing. i truly hope it does not become common again. it’s also one thing coming from a neurodivergent/disabled person with similar experiences (and even then i personally find it a little uncomfortable), it’s another to be said by a neurotypical/able bodied person.

percy jackson’s experiences make for very important representation, and for people to characterize him as just a goofy, unintelligent guy is not only an insult to his character as a kid who is intelligent, but previously lacked the environment to show it, but also ableist. so in the dawn of the new tv series era, i ask that we cut that shit out. rick riordan did not create rep for neurodivergent and disabled kids for them to be called stupid by the fanbase. even jokingly.

#anyways yea just had 2 bring this post back #in light of the new show i’d say i don’t think rick has made percy just a goofy airhead but #his and all demigods’ disabilities do feel kind of side lined #and it is disappointing #like. percy’s nightmares of school have made me cry. it breaks my heart especially as a ND kid who had similar nightmares #so yes when i see fans just echo the belief he’s been told all his childhood? infuriating #pjo show crit #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo show #ris raves