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when i wa small ,i used to believe that horse could fly

Just yesterday I thought about something I used to believe as a child and then I thought what a neat website topic "childhood beliefs" would be. Then today as I was searching Google for "cats wearing clothes" I ended up on this site. Incredible. And coincidentally my childhood belief involves cats. When I was 4 or 5 I spent lots of time looking at books. (My three older brothers all went to school and I had to stay home.) I remember seeing a series of photographs in "The Books of Knowledge" (honest that's what this series of books were called). The first photograph showed a live lion posed on a low rectangular pedestal and the next photo showed a workman putting the finishing touches to a lifesize cement lion sculpture. I cried to think that the poor lion was sacrificed to create art. I believed that the man had simply encased the lion in cement! 

I used to believe dinosaurs still lived and I was terrified. When
I looked at snakes and reptilians, I thought they would kill me.

When I was about 5 years old I went to the beach with my parents. The 1st day there,I loved it but the second day we went to this museum about sea animals. There was this program about whales washing into the harbor. When we went to the beach I was convinced that the waves were whales and I was trying to save them and every time I tried I was amazed that they dissapeared and turned into water. (I thought they had died and dissintigrated already.)

When I was little, I heard that starfish eat out of a little hole in their back. We had a few (dead) starfish in our house from the beach, and I was scared to death that they would attack me and eat me. To protect myself, I took some clay and covered their little hole so they couldn't eat me.

When I was about 8 or 9, my brother took me for a ride out to the country on his motorcycle. I pointed at a bull that was mounted on a cow. The bull was thrusting itself into the cow. I said "What are those cows doing?" "Dancing" my brother said. "Oh." I said, thinking I never knew cows danced.

when i was little i used to pull my cats eyes open when he was asleep. i was fascinated at the thought that he rolled his eyes back in his head. my dad saw me do it one day and explained that cats have nictating membranes.

I used to think all birds pooped on people that were being bad because a bird pooped on my dad one day and my mom said he has been bad latly

I used to believe I had ear wax because a mouse would go to the bathroom in my ear while I was sleeping.

until i was about 10 years old, i believed that all dogs were male and all cats were female. when a dog and a cat got married they would have little girl kittens and boy puppies.

when i was a child, my mother always frightened me that my stomach will be ate up by a mouse if I did not eat my meal. So when I always heard this, I take my meal as full as I could thinking that the mouse may eat my ass going inside my stomach.

when i was about 7 or 8 my mom told me not to give my dog choclate because it was bad for them. So i assumed that Cats couldnt have vannilla. I later found out otherwise

My older cousin (actually my father's first cousin) is a hunter, and once when he was on a hunting trip, he shot this gigantic bear and had it stuffed and put in the reception area at his business. When my father and I came to visit him at work for the first time after it was delivered, I was very small at the time, and was naturally quite frightened of the bear. My cousin noticed this, and for some reason thought he would make it better by telling me the bear came alive when everyone left for the evening, and for years I kept visualizing the bear lumbering around his business in the dark (which would have been chaotic, since he owns a cattle breeding operation). I've since grown up and that bear still scares me. He also used to tell me there were mountain lions at the creek by my house. I think he liked to scare me.

I'm sure just about everyone is familiar with the phrase "it's a dog eat dog world". Well, I had always heard this when I was younger in movies and on televsion, but I had heard it as: it's a doggy dog world. Please take into consideration the fact that I was fairly young. Obviously, when I heard this time and time again, it made no sense. I spent years trying to figure out what a doggy dog world was. It wasn't until they came out with a televison show called Dog Eat Dog that I finally realized my mistake-at 14 years old! That embarrassed me, but luckily I, myself, had never used this phrase in every day conversation. So, I finally understood the phrase Dog Eat Dog..it made much more sense than doggy dog! However, my family still doesn't let me forget it! My mother even custom made me a t-shirt with a picture of a black lab that says: "It's a Doggy Dog World"!

I used to believe…

a donkey is just a small horse.

When my sister was 5, my mother gave each of us kids a Siamese kitten. Knowing that my sister was a) a potty-mouth and b) completely naive about pets, I managed to convince her that Siamese cats learned to say a few words as they grew up, and warned her never to swear around the kittens for fear they'd start doing it too.

I thought she would believe me for a week at most, but the kittens became cats before they ever heard a dirty word from her.