Hilarious Tweets About The Things We Believed As Kids

Children are highly impressionable or, as some may say, gullible.

So it’s only natural that they internalize the myths and little white lies they hear from parents, peers and the media. And their own brains are often the source of funny assumptions and misconceptions, as the funny folks on Twitter have revealed.

We’ve rounded up 45 hilarious tweets about the things people believed in their younger years.

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