When I was little I firmly believed every bit of food I ate went down into my toes, then feet, then ankles, then legs ... I think you get the picture. I'm pretty sure I didn't know this was wrong until we started learning about digestion in school.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- Right when I started school, I believed that you could get kicked out of school for chewing gum. — Rheeb
- I use to believe that all the food you ate went to your feet.— Honz
- When I first started learning to read I was convinced that vowels were called barnacles.— Andy Howell
- My great-grandfather firmly believed, and had me convinced, that SPAM was mouse meat. — texasblue
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- My mom used to think "preschool" was called "pretty school" until a few years later.— Molly