You know it ’s genuine .

When we were all kids, pretty much everyone…

1.Made those milk bubbles:

2.Had this exact fear:

3.Scrolled all the way down:

4.Had this exact thought while home from school:

5.Drew a sun in the corner of a page that looked exactly like this:

6.Believed that gum from second grade is still there:

7.Walked in water using every one of these combinations:

8.Played with a foam ball that had a big honkin' bite taken out of it:

9.Pinched their finger like this for no reason:

10.Got yelled at for turning on the car light:

11.Rolled up the straps on their backpack as tightly as humanly possible:

12.Tried to become invisible to avoid going to bed:

13.Stabbed the living life out of an eraser:

14.Experienced true terror after swallowing a seed:

15.Pretended you could harness the force of the seven seas in the shower:

16.Saw the world in Ruler Vision:

17.Became a movie star at the grocery store:

18.Took way too many bottle cap shots:

19.Witnessed incredibly intense raindrop races on a car window:

20.Smacked the dang chlorophyl out of an innocent leaf:

21.Got a punch from the champ:

22.Pretended to have special anti-gravity pool powers:

23.Ran their hand along the wall EXACTLY like this:

24.Clipped their mouth shut for some mysterious reason:

25.Began a long and fruitful career as a chemist:

26.Developed an awful “smoking” habit:

27.Had some very questionable thoughts:

28.Tried their best to defeat the powerful forces of science:

29.Felt like the highest of high society:

30.Played dead for about 7 seconds:

31.Rubbed glue all over their hands just to peel it off:

32.Ate macaroni like a dignified human-being:

33.Smelled that smell:

34.Woke up in the twilight zone:

35.Saw the most spontaneous throw up ever:

And fell for this exact joke:

meme of someone blowing into a straw and making bubbles in milk

A digitally altered image of a shark swimming in a swimming pool with the text: "This was probably the most irrational childhood fear that I had."

Tweet by bruce.dushi: "Website: you must be of legal age to view this content. What year were you born? Me at age 11 (playing it safe): 1753"

tweet reading remember those days when you missed school and you'd check the time and think they're eating right now

sun with sunglasses:

![tweet reading did anyone else use to believe that gum would stay in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it

pls say yes or i’ll feel weird](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2022-10/12/14/asset/2e50c164404a/sub-buzz-2738-1665584846-2.jpg)

three ways to walk in water

foam ball with a bite taken out of it

hairclip on a finger

tweet reading Why did my momma make me think it was illegal to turn a light on in a car while you were driving throughout my whole childhood

Picture of backpack straps being rolled up

text reading 13 year old me watching tv and not moving a muscle so they don't notice it is past my bedtime

Picture of a pencil eraser with many holes in it

![tweet reading 8 year old me: accidentally swallows watermelon seed

friends: omg you know the watermelon is gonna grow in your stomach!?](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2021-02/16/21/asset/b8f0958f310e/sub-buzz-122-1613509411-2.png)

facebook post reading nobody me in t he shower thinking water is coming out my fingers

person looking through a green ruler

Picture of Spiderman pointing at himself on the CCTV at the grocery store

Picture of a water bottle pouring into a cap

Baby Yoda looking up with the text "7-year-old me watching my raindrop win the race"

Tweet by @eduardonut0 with the text "whenever i walk by a tree" above an image of a tree and a character from SpongeBob SquarePants reacting

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Meme with Spiderman on the side of a building

Picture of a person running their finger along a wall

Picture of a kid with a hair clip closed around his mouth

A meme about mixing up Coke, 7up, and Dr Pepper at the soda machine

Picture of Baby Yoda exhaling into winter air and causing smoke

A man with a surprised expression looks up with his mouth open. Text above reads: "Me as a kid in church seeing who would die if the light fixture fell."

Meme with Captain America holding two things together with the text "6-year-old me trying to force two magnets to touch"

Pooh Bear dressed in a tux with the text "12-year-old me drinking grape juice out of a wine glass"

Tweet with Goofy lying in water with the text "Me when I was 10 pretending to be dead in the pool to see if anyone would care"

Tweet with a picture of someone peeling glue with the text "IK I’m not the only one who used to put glue on my hands, wait for it to dry, and peel it off when I was bored"

Picture of a fork with a piece of macaroni on each tine

Squidward smelling a scent with closed eyes and a smile, evoking nostalgic childhood memories. Text: "When you randomly smell a specific scent you remember as a kid and the nostalgic memories come flooding in."

SpongeBob SquarePants sits on the edge of a bench, looking tired and disoriented. Text describes a relatable feeling after waking up from an after-school nap

Tweet by albert reads: "yall remember in first grade when we were just chillin in class then somebody threw up outta nowhere."

Meme with an angry Gaston from "Beauty and the Beast"