I used to believe (however recently) that this really, stupid gullible person called Anon sent in ALOT of his childhood beliefs to this website. Until my English workmate Aidan set me right(mumble mumble..gotta get back to work)

Chucky

When I was in 4th grade, my class had to do a poetry lesson and at the end of the semester, we had to put together a compilation of poems by a famous poet. Most people did Shel Silverstein, or even the over achievers did Emily Dickenson..So, I go to present my poems(which was a lot more than the rest of the class) and I stated proudly for the class:

"My poet was Anonymous. He was very famous and wrote hundreds and hundresd of poems."

My teacher laughed for about five minutes.

Kate

When I was in grade school, I was very confused about the terms "hooker" and "playing hookie". Trying to sort the terms out, I wondered if everyone who skipped school did so to engage in prostitution. Regardless, I considered myself a "hooker" because I faked sick to stay home and watch TV.

one confused girl

When I was much younger and first came across the word anonymous, I misread it as annoyamouse and spent days wondering whose mice they'd been annoying.

Terrana

when I first discovered "I used to believe" site and started reading, I thought this "Anon" person sure spent a lot of time posting his/her experiences here.... I just realised "anon" means anonymous and it's not a specific person that goes by that name. I am 27

mary

when I was a little girl I was convinced that "anonymous" was someones name, and that he sat all day in my attic writing books of all sorts. when he was done he would sign his name and send the finished book through some secret tube where my mom would pick it up and deliver it to my room. I always felt so bad for anonymous because he was forced to write so many books and poems, and also because what kind of nutjob names their kid Anonymous? His parents must have been monsters for forcing this weird identity upon him and locking him up in my attic as a slave.

sheri (

There are alot of beliefs signed "anon" so i used to believe(until about 2 minutes ago) that this 'anon' person was actually a person, rather than just anonymous. Every time i went to this site i looked at those and thought, wow this anon kid must have been pretty dumb as a kid..

priy

I used to believe anon was a person and couldn't believe he had written so many poems

Helena

I knew what anonymous meant and that anon was an abbreviation. But I thought that Bacon was another name for anonymous. I didn't think anyone's last name could be Bacon.

Vicki J.

I used to think, reading alot of these posts, that anon was someone who made up all these beliefs so he could be famous and popular! I also thought that once you posted so many beliefs you became a valued member and your name was then orange, so everyone knew that you had alot of beliefs. For a while I tried to think of every belief I ever had, without cheating, so I could have my name in orange too. Wow, that's embarrassing!

I want my name in orange!!!!

All my life, when reading things like this site where people sign "Anon.", I thought Anon was an actual person's first name. I only realized that it wasn't when reading this site and figuring that one person couldn't possibly have had that many strange childhood beliefs. We won't mention how old I am. ;p

Tom Anon.

i used to believe that anon was some weird classical/poet/writer/songwriter/philosither kind of guy, a bit like aosoup or somthing

bex

Until just about a second ago, I gathered that the orange "anon" signed beliefs were from the beginning of the site when the creator (named Anon) put a few on there to get people to visit and decide to submit their own.

Of course, then I realized the boring truth. :P

Zeta

In 6th grade my teacher would put quotes on the board for us to copy down, and many of them were by "Anon." I figured he must have been a really great philosopher or something, but I didn't ask who he was because I didn't want to appear uneducated.

Seven

i always thought anon was a person, and i thought he felt a sense of accomplishment by submitting more entries than anyone on the site, and i hated him because he seemed conceited. i saw entries where he was a girl, where he was a boy, and where he was 20, and where he was 9, but unlike other people, instead of thinking anon must not be a guy, i just thought he was making up every single entry for attention.

Anon

For a while, I thought this 'Anon' was some Middle-Eastern person. I thought this because when I was in 3rd grade there was a kid from Iran and he had an Iranian name. Anon sounded Iranian to me...

modzilla

For the first like, 4 times I went to this site, I thought "anon" was a real name of a person! I kept thinking to myself, "Wow! Anon really believed in a lot of things!"

Imsmart

I used to see lot of quotes from Anonymous, and I used to think that this Anonymous fellow must have been a great scholar.

Pod

I used to get the words anonymous and unanimous confused. So whenever they said something on the news like "The senate made a unanimous vote today against the _________ bill...." i thought " well duh its unanimous.... no ones supposed to know how you in particular voted...."

The sad thing is that most people consider me above average in spelling and comprehension and stuff like that........

@;}- Fimbrethil :-B

The first couple times I came to this website i thought that there was someone named Anon who sent in a TON of beliefs and I really liked Anon becaouse his beliefs were usually really funny. It wasnt until i sent in a belief that i realized than Anon was just short for Anonymous.

mentally blonde