Things you used to believe

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Before I knew what change was, I thought cashiers were giving people free money.

I believed that only paper money and coins were money, checks and cards weren't money, but something different.

I thought that cashiers and toll booth workers got to keep all the money they got.

I believed that the place that my dad went to was actually called work. Being a teacher, doctor etc. wasn't work, only work was.

One actually did. Someone set up a booth for parking fees at the British Museum parking lot, and collected for decades. The City and the Museum both assumed that he worked for the other party.

I used to assume that military equipment was manufactured in Army factories. Given that I could be drafted, I thought the companies would surely be nationalized first, and also not make any profits from saving the country they depended on.

I believed I would grow out of the condition I had, which I didn't know of as autism or Asperger's at the time.

I believed that the song requests on the radio were live.

I thought I would grow out of my learning disability which I didn't know at the time.

I thought all my problems were due to me not talking well.

I thought how we acted at school in my self contained class was what we did there and it was school behavior and normal. I also thought we did the same schoolwork there over and over.

I thought Asperger's was just a learning disability so I assumed mine was severe because of how much troubles I had with school work.

Until I was well into my 20s, I believed firmly that when people were speaking to me, they actually believed what they were saying to be true. Seemed obvious to me at the time. It didn't occur to me until later that people would sometimes say whatever they wanted to (without believing it themselves) in order to persuade me to act or think in a specific way. I can't help but think that my perspective is the correct one. Regardless of differences between NT/AS culture, misleading people is wrong, especially when coupled with the intent of achieving personal gain.

Also when younger, I had some misconceptions about what traits would be appealing to the opposite sex when I started dating. I achieved some financial independence at a relatively young age, and was good at my job, and I thought that these would somehow be positive traits to somebody interested in a romantic relationship. I figured out much later that one of the most important traits is to "know how to have fun", because that is what you are expected to do when sharing the other person's company. Seems like hedonism is quickly becoming the predominant value in this culture.

I thought if I was nice, people would care about me.

I thought that I didn't need friends or companionship.

I thought that I could never fall for someone.
Or have someone desire a relationship with me in return.

I know I said I used to think all poodles were female; but I also believed they were born in a "show cut".

I thought anyone who was nice to you liked you and if they didn't and they were still being nice to you, they were pretending to like you

I thought all autistic people could read codes like Simon and they were all mute like him and screamed when touched

I thought once you could talk and communicate, you were no longer autistic because autistic people don't communicate. I didn't know communication was more than just talking

I thought autism was when people don't talk but hearing loss didn't count and neither did being in a wheelchair from being in a car accident nor when you go to a foreign country and don't know how to speak another language

I thought having a disability gave you special privileges so I wanted some too so I wanted everything to go my way so I wouldn't get stressed out and have anxiety. I have a disability so I should get that privilege like other special needs kids do who have disabilities.

I thought weathermen controlled the weather. I wanted to call them to tell them to bring us snow and thunderstorms but I didn't know how to call them because I didn't know their number.

I thought adults had boring lives because they didn't get presents from Santa or any Easter baskets and they weren't allowed to play with toys or play on playgrounds because only kids did that so I was so scared of growing up thinking I wouldn't be allowed to have fun anymore because of age groups they had like kid menus and other places for kids who were a certain height or a certain age and plus toys and games had age limits and so did computer games.

I thought Dalmatians were called 101 Dalmatian and I thought they were talking dogs so I used to ask if their dog talks whenever I saw a Dalmatian

I thought all dogs were mean and they attack people for no reason because we had a neighbor who had a very mean dog and he bit my brother

I thought elevators magically changed floors than realizing they just go up and down and take you to a floor

I thought The Beach Boys sang songs on the beach so that was why they were called The Beach Boys and the recorded themselves singing on the beach

I used to believe females peed out of their butts, then when I found out about the vagina, I believed they peed out of their vaginas.

I thought briefly women laid eggs inside of them while chickens drop them and sit on them and we just do it inside ourselves and then the egg hatches into a baby and that is how it's born. It would hatch inside the mother and the mother then feels it come so she goes to the hospital to have it and she pushes it out.

I just found my career

I also thought the same. I thought workers at work who work with money got to keep it all and it was all theirs. I didn't know it would be stealing if they took it with them. I know they take it all out of the register at the end of the shift and put it in a bag and put it away somewhere I think in a safe or they take it home with them.

In a way, a baby growing inside the mother's uterus is inside an "egg," I believe. Except the shell is made out of amniotic fluid, rather than solid matter.

I believed that the sound of a jetliner was the sound that the sky was making as it stretched. I believed this well after I learned about the existence of aircraft; I just never put two and two together. As to why the sky needed to stretch...well, don't we all?

My parents used to tell me that I had been born without a nose. They explained that a nurse had kindly sewn a button onto my face to replace it, and whenever they referred to my nose they called it my button. I eventually began to suspect that this had not, in fact, been the case, but was not fully convinced for quite some time.

But I thought the mother laid actual eggs like chickens do except ours was very small. Our doesn't work that way the chicken does.

I thought people working in a store got to take anything home with them they had in stock.