i used to believe - the childhood beliefs site

That eating carrots makes you ginger.

Austin (from body functions : eating)

I used to believe the word shoes was spelled shouse. It looked right to me...

Shouse (from language : spelling)

When I was child I used to believe that people who die become ghosts and could see you

Anon (from death : people)

When I was a child, I used to believe that when there was a storm it was because God was angry.

Raul (from nature : weather)

When I was a child, I used to believe clouds were cotton candy.

GloriousJin (from nature : weather)

When I was a child I used to believe that my cat would die because he fell seven times.

Anon (from animals : cats and dogs)

When I was a child, I used to believe that onions came from tangerines.

Anon (from food : general)

When I was a child, I used to think that if I lied my nose would grow bigger.

Anon (from body parts : general)

When I was a child, I used to believe that mannequins moved around and changed their clothes at night while the store was closed.

Anon (from neighbourhood : going shopping)

When I was a child I used to belive that if I put on cardboard wings I could fly like a bird.

Anon (from animals : birds)

When i was a child, i used to believe that astronauts when they went to space, they will live on the moon all the time.

Ayman (from grown-ups : work)

When I was little I thought that if I fell into the toilet it would absorb me and take me through the sewers.

Anita Gutierrez (from at home : bathrooms)

I used to think the word “racy” had something to do with racism. Specifically, I thought the word was to racism what “sexy” was to “sexism”.

Anon (from the world : nationalities)

When I first read about the Cannes Film Festival, I thought "Cannes" was the name of a PERSON, rather than a city. I figured he was some famous director or something.

Anon (from media : films)

I used to think that a "carnival barker" was a person who barks like a dog at a carnival.

Anon (from neighbourhood : excursions)

In school we were having a party and the teacher asked me what I wanted to dress up as I said a fairy so I thought I would actually become a fairy🤣🤣🤣

Zimel (from make-believe : fairies)

When I was five or six I thought that if I prayed to fly I would fly one day.

Zimel (from religion : prayers)

I used to think that the lyric in Deck the Halls was "'tis the season tube-ey, jolly." Tube-ey as in another word for tubular.

Doing just Tubular (from music : misheard lyrics)

i used to believe cotton was made up of cat's fur

Umme Hani (from animals : cats and dogs)

I used to believe that catterpillar were the peas glued with each other

Umme Hani (from animals : creepy crawlies)