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* The opening of ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'' is narrated by the young Marlene, who simplifies things quite a bit. For example, when describing Sephiroth, the BigBad who tried to summon Meteor to strike the planet so he could become a god, she says "he hated the planet so much, he wanted to make it go away."

->''"He [Jenny's father] was a very loving man. He was always kissin' and touchin' her and her sisters. (...) God is mysterious. He didn't turn Jenny into a bird that day [as she had requested]. Instead, he had the police say that Jenny didn't have to stay in that house no more. She went to live with her grandma.(...) Some nights, Jenny sneaked out and come on over to my house, just 'cause she said she was scared. Scared of what? I don't know, but I think it was her grandma's dog. He was a mean dog."''
-->-- '''Film/ForrestGump''', describing what he understood about Jenny's molester father.

* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', the episode "The Offspring" has Data's "daughter" Lal get laughed at by her classmates. She concludes that this means she's mastered the art of humor.

* Creator/WilliamFaulkner does this with the sections written from the perspective of Vardaman, a nine year old boy, in ''Literature/AsILayDying'' and by Benjy, an autistic man, in ''Literature/TheSoundAndTheFury''. Five words: [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible "My mother is a fish."]]

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Symbiosis}}'', due to being [[RaisedByWolves raised by Pokémon]], Ash is initially horrified by the concept of catching Pokémon until his adoptive father, Poison Lance, explained that most Pokémon encounters are by Pokémon who know the risk or want to be captured. He also doesn't understand why [[ThePeepingTom men would peek]] on [[BathingBeauty women bathing]]. He believes that men do it because women hide their secret to good hygiene, which is why women smell cleaner. He [[AccidentalPervert vows to assist these men if he ever gets the chance]] because he wants to smell cleaner.

* Used in ''Film/MyNameIsKhan'', in which the main character has Asperger's. [[spoiler:He is mistaken for a terrorist and ends up in the equivalent of Guantanamo bay, where the guards change the temperature in his cell from extreme cold to extreme heat as a form of torture. His internal monologue: "This is a strange place. Sometimes it's too cold, sometimes it's too hot. Maybe they're having problems with the air conditioning."]]

-->'''Annie''': They let me acompany them on their visits to patients in the hospital. [...] It was like a game to me. And for the longest time I never understood why these people were gone the next day.

* This trope becomes an important plot point in ''LightNovel/ListenToMeGirlsIAmYourFather''. After 3 year old Hina's parents go missing after a plane crash (and most likely died), her uncle and 2 older sisters try to avoid the subject of why her parents have been gone so long. She doesn't think about it too much until episode 12, when she starts asking why they haven't come back home yet, and upon being told the truth, she doesn't take it very well [[spoiler:until the very end, when everyone she's met comes to watch her classmate sing, showing she still has people who care deeply about her.]]

* In some versions of the song "Nuttin' for Christmas", the singer (a little boy) sees an elderly, fat burglar in a red and white suit and assumes he's SantaClaus. Even when the burglar starts stealing the silverware, the boy still thinks he's Santa.

* Invoked in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' fanfic ''Fanfic/BuildYourWingsOnTheWayDown'' by Edward and Hughes. Nina thought her time [[spoiler:spent as a chimera]] was a bad dream. They let her think that to spare her the pain of what happened until she's old enough to handle it.

* ''Fanfic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'': some characters learned the hard way that just because the person taking naked pictures of you is dressed like a doctor doesn't mean it's okay. Another comes to the rape support group to ask how she can be safe around men, every one of whom she thinks is going to assault her, but fails to grasp that the other group members count her mother persuading her of this fact as a form of sexual abuse in itself.

* [[Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei Kafuka Fura]], though whether she's naive or delusional is up for debate.

* ''[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RgkrBTryVCfmAARA5ZCMTY4nTa2ta2-mhmdpxvipEoA/edit?hl=en&pli=1#%20 Bubbles,]]'' a ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]]'' fanfic about how Derpy Hooves [[TearJerker got her cutie mark.]] It's a DarkFic, because Derpy's mother is [[AbusiveParents abusive]], calling her a "retard", yelling at her, and hitting her sometimes, and Derpy's [[TheKlutz clumsiness]] is [[AdaptationalExplanation explained]] as her having some sort of birth defect that makes her move, see, and talk badly. Her mother is implied to also have something wrong with the wiring upstairs, as she takes medicine "so she doesn't cry". Derpy, however, thinks her mother is just loud and that "retard" is a strange new word. Also, at one point, Derpy goes to the hospital but doesn't understand, and thinks it's just a cool new place.

** In ''The Edgy House'', covered in After Dark 4, the Leni in the story [[spoiler:until it's revealed to be a joke all along]] thinks that Lynn Sr.'s [[VillainousIncest raping her]] is just "kissies".

-->'''Linda:''' Butters, where did Daddy go after the movie?
-->'''Butters:''' To the gym.
-->'''Linda:''' To the gym?
-->'''Butters:''' Yeah, the White Swallow Spa.
-->'''Linda:''' ''Aah!!''
-->'''Butters:''' Yep, he went in there and he wrestled with all kinds of guys. He wasn't too good, though. This one black guy had him pinned down for fifteen minutes straight.

* From ''Magazine/TheOnion'': [[https://www.theonion.com/daddy-put-in-bye-bye-box-1819569708 "Daddy Put In Bye-Bye Box."]] Widely regarded as one of the [[TearJerker saddest articles on the site]]. A man named Howard Lewis dies of a terminal disease (probably [[TheTopicOfCancer stomach cancer]] since he lost his hair and there was mention of him needing "a new tummy") and is buried, but his little son Ryan thinks he's just going on vacation and his even-younger daughter Rebecca thinks he's just asleep like Snow White, so both think Howard will be back. Ryan doesn't even understand that Howard was sick, thinking he just went to the hospital to play. The Lewis kids also have a dead cat Muffin, grandma Sarah, and uncle Brian, yet don't understand that those three are dead either.

See also PleaseWakeUp. A TearfulSmile may attempt to prevent a child's realizing another character's grief. Related to UnreliableNarrator.

* ''VideoGame/TheSandMan'' includes a {{Flashback}} where a much younger Sophie explains to a friend why her mother's no longer around, referencing a "Ban Crobber".

* In ''Literature/TheBoyInTheStripedPyjamas'', an eight year old named Bruno has a father who is very high up and important. His father works for the Fury [[spoiler:(Fuhrer)]], and is forced to leave his old home in Berlin with the rest of the family. They move to a place named Out-With [[spoiler:(Auschwitz)]] wherein he isn't really happy. He never understands why his mother starts taking so many medicinal sherries and long naps, and why the young but cruel Lt. Kotler seems to be around so much. [[spoiler:(She's having an affair with him.)]] He retains his naiveté even after meeting and speaking regularly with someone from the other side of the fence, "Shmuel".

* After ''Film/{{Babe}}'' stops a pack of dogs from attacking a flock of sheep, he gets blood on his snout when he's mourning over Maa's corpse. Farmer Hogget assumes that Babe was the one who killed Maa and gets ready to put him down with his shotgun. Babe's thoughts are narrated to the audience:

* A flashback in ''28 Days'' shows the main character and her sister as children discovering that her mother has passed away. As they're being taken away by their aunt, one of the girls tells her, "Just slap her ''real'' hard, she'll wake up."

'''Bart:''' It looks like he's trying to jump ''over'' her, but can't quite make it. C'mon boy! You can do it!\\

--->'''Marge:''' Uh-oh...\\