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Professionals Share Their Best 'It Doesn't Actually Work Like That Though' Experiences
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A lot of people seem to have a lot of assumptions about the way the world works, and a lot of us don't have any experience to back up those assumptions.

Whether it's assuming that there absolutely must be another box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch in the back of the store that they can have if they can only convince the poor teenager stocking shelves, or that a photo editor will be able to magically make your blurry, pixellated photo look amazing, there's a lot of things people seem to think are true about different fields that just aren't.

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It's always odd to hear about people who idolize the Joker and Harley Quinn. Isn't it very apparent that those two are in an abusive and codependent relationship?

You'd think so, but if you spend a little time on online message boards or looking at any memes, you'd see a host of representations of Joker and Harley Quinn as "relationship goals" when they should be anything but.

Clearly the people who read those comics misunderstood the assignment, and they are not alone.

People shared their thoughts with us after Redditor WhereDemonsDwell asked the online community,

"Which fictional characters are idolized by people who missed the entire point of their story?"
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There's some extremely common misconceptions flying around society.

Either that, or a lack of willingness to learn certain things. It's unclear which. But there are things that humans at large tend to completely either disregard or continually mistake without a thought or care, Is it intentional ignorance?

Some people are fed up with this lack of understanding, and seek to change the way society sees them.

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