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When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.

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[โ€“] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I grew up with a family that didn't have a lot of luxuries when I was young. We had three channels on TV, so we didn't spend a lot of time watching TV. So I didn't get to watch a lot of pop culture content for about the first 7 or 8 years of my life.

So one of the first memories I have as a kid is in hearing music on the radio, record player, cassette player or any sound system .... I understood that it was previously recorded and performed by other people somewhere else.

What I thought was that all the sounds were generated by human voices. Guitars? Pianos? Trumpets? Brass sounds? Violins? even Drums or percussion. I thought all of it was people just making sounds with their voices.

I'm Indigenous Canadian so my parents didn't have musical instruments, a couple of uncles played the guitar and fiddle ... but by the time I was young, they no longer played these instruments and had them. I never knew or understood musical instruments really until I was about 8, 9 or ten. Up until then, I just thought all music was just people with amazing and unusual human voices.

[โ€“] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember thinking radio stations had bands constantly coming in and playing songs and leaving

[โ€“] AquaTofana@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

This is always my answer to this question. I thought radio stations must have been the busiest places with all those bands coming and going!