When I was little, I thought that birds feathers were made out of twigs and cat hairs.

Lily

When I was a kid, I had a storybook with dragons and unicorns, but also kangaroos. So I thought kangaroos weren't real. When I went to the zoo for the first time, I was in pure awe.

Noel

When my sister and I were 5 & 6 respectively, I told my sister that the dog doo in our front yard, bleached white from the sun, were dinosaur bones.
After telling her that, she would fill her pockets with sun bleached dog doo all the time. This went on for about a year. Our mom used to empty our pockets prior to doing the wash. I remember our mom always telling her to stop doing that. She would stop for awhile, then start collecting again.

Garry

I use to think mountains were dead dinosaurs and grass grew over it.

Tara

My mom told me whiskers helped cats keep their balance when I asked what they were for. Due to this, I thought if I ever cut my cat's whiskers off or even accidentally plucked one out, they would go around bumping into stuff and be mad at me forever.

Kat

Yesterday, I was looking at this website for some animal shelter, for a roommate who was interested. Well, after a while, I got to looking at their available cats on the site. With some of the cats, next to where it told their gender, some of them said they were "altered" saying something like, "female (altered)" or "male (altered)" for their gender. Typically, altered means changed- right?? Well, I applied this logic to the word in this context, and thought for a moment that these cats had sex change operations! And that something like "female (altered)" meant that the cat WAS a female, but had her sex changed. I was thinking to myself, "but who would to such a thing to an animal??- that's terrible!" After a couple minutes, I realized that it only meant that the cat had been fixed... what an idiot...

~Dominique~

If you cut or pluck a cats whiskers they could get sick or die.

Paul Adam Trepanier

when i was little i thought that locusts were alens. i went into my backyard one day and saw one on my playset and it was cumin out of its shell thing and it was all green and crap....i then ran inside yelling "ALIEN! ALIEN!" and my parents thought i was crazy until they saw wat i had seen lol

Molly

I used to believe that reindeers were made up, like Santa. As a cynical kid, I thought it was all part of the made-up Christmas package. Dragons: now there was an animal I could believe in.

I didn't find out they were real until Xmas 2007. I'm 19.

Lisa