can look back at this video and say, "We

had no idea what we had coming". So

another year has passed which means we're all

one year older which means we're growing

as people which- ah-.. Yeah this is a stretch I

didn't have a transition as a youngster I

was prone to believing people pretty

much unconditionally

as with most children. I just had too

much trust for my own good, like, "Oh

would anyone have any reason to lie to

me,

the world is full of nothing but nice

people and purity!", of course I've grown out

of that mentality and am a lot more

cautious. But for a while people could

just tell me things and I'd just believe

them.

I got thinking about all the ridiculous

things people put in my head that I

stored as fact, and I decided to make a

list of the craziest ones, and also just

letting you know I was, like, younger than

7 in all of these stories. Don't worry

I didn't just find out these things

aren't true like a couple months ago or

anything. When I was in first grade for

some reason my mom told me aluminum foil

is poison and if I ever bit I'd die. A bit

strange but I think I know the idea

behind it...?

Apparently biting foil can induce a

"""galvanic shock"""

Basically if the oil comes in contact

with braces, metal fillings, something

like that the medals will react with

each other and create a little electric

shock. But all I knew as a kid was

Teeth > contact with aluminum foil > Death. And I was

petrified

I didn't even have braces or anything

metal in my mouth at the time so nothing

what even happened if I tried it. I also

remember going to school the next day

and telling my friend, "Did you know that

if you bite aluminum foil you'll die?" And she

goes I think, "I've bit foil before

and I was like "how are you not dead?" Grasshoppers spit acid in

your shoes

This one probably needs explaining to

I was at recess with some friends and we

are running around in the grass

without our shoes on. When we went back to put

them on there was a little grasshopper

sitting at the bottom of my right shoe.

"Guys look, a cute little grasshopper is

wearing my shoe!" And one of my friends

goes, "Oh my god, grasshoppers spit acid!

Get it out!" And then we all start panicking

at the fact that there was a death grasshopper

in my shoe.

I looked up like she could have thought

that and it actually is a fact that

grasshoppers can spit a brown liquid to

protect themselves from predators

it's called tobacco juice and even

though it's slightly acidic

the worst you really can do is stain your

clothes. It's pretty much harmless but

oohooho dude, no, I had the image in my head of

some Breaking Bad hydrofluoric acid

dissolved through everything it touches

kinda mean. Also just saying I didn't

mean the drug acid even though that

could be equally terrifying.

Speaking of staining clothes I was at

lunch one day with the rest of my class

and one boy took out a bag of

pomegranate seeds his mom packed for him in

his lunch. A lot of us hadn't seen them

before because it's a bit of an exotic

fruit. So it cost of attention and we are

all asking a bunch of questions about

them.

The boy said, "Did you know pomegranate

seeds can stain your clothes and it'll

never come out?!?"

*GASP* Woah! That must be one powerful fruit!

It never comes out? Never ever forever?

Not even with the power of *BILLY MAYS WALKS IN* OXICLEAN

LAUNDRY STAIN REMOVER IT GETS

THE TOUGH STAINS O U T and then we watched the

kitty to bag a pomegranate seeds sittin

sideways at the seats on the space next

to him because he didn't want to spill

'em on himself.

Looking back it was definitely just his

mom exaggerating because she didn't want to have

to deal with stains and laundry. A slight

parenting trick if I do say so myself.

It's weird to think she's out there

somewhere and she doesn't even realize

she accidentally taught me that lesson too.

This was actually kind of common to

believe and I think a lot of people have

been passing this myth around for a long

time. Sitting too close to the TV is bad

for your eyes. I did research on this one

as well and even though it might seem

like it could be true

there's apparently no actual evidence

that sitting in front of the TV is

damaging to your eyes. but 'ol little 'ol

Jaiden believed it and you know what I did

with that information? Stand directly in

front of the TV.

Yeah, for some reason when I was younger

I really, really wanted glasses

I don't know where that came from, I just

liked the look of glasses and wanted

them. So when no one was looking I would go up

to the TV screen and stare at it. Like

one inch away from my face.

"this will get me glasses" but it didn't

work, obviously. I actually have really good eyesight.

Maybe standing too close to the TV

will improve your vision. But yeah I'm

glad my eyesight sabotage plan didn't

work because having glasses just seems

like a hassle and inconvenience. Tip of the hat

hat to anyone out there with glasses or

annoyed by them. Wish you the best; we

annoyed by them. Wish you the best; we

people without those things forget how

good we have it.

This was a bit related because it's

about eyeballs again. If you try to use

your eyes to look back into your head

at your brain, they'll get stuck and you'll be

blind forever. It's a bit of a spin-off

of the other eyeball myth of, "If you

cross your eyes too much, they'll get

stuck like that!" I never believed that

one, but I believed this brain one.

A friend told me once that if you tried to

look at the back of your head with your

eyes, you might be able to see your brain

and we spent the whole day trying to do it.

Then when I went home I asked my mom

about it and she said, "Don't do that,

they'll get stuck." *T R A U M A* I think I believe it so

quickly because if you try it does kinda

hurt your eyes a bit because they're

not really supposed to be able to look

back into your head like that. And I

thought that was like your body saying

"Don't push it!"

"This is a warning!" And even to this day

their "rotation limit"

their "rotation limit"

I don't know how else to say it. I know it's not

of my mind (which I'll never be able to

see). And finally the most ridiculous

see). And finally the most ridiculous

thing I believed so I don't know how

this happened

no one told me this I don't understand

where I went wrong here, but somehow I

ended up confusing the disease "Tetanus"

with AIDS

didn't even know what AIDS was. And yes I

didn't even know what AIDS was. And yes I

am considered a PG-channel for the most