I am SOO glad that I am not the only kid who believed that the TV would stop when you turned it off and resume the same show when you turned it back on. I thought that until I was at least in 4th grade.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon
- The first time I saw fog, I thought the air had turned sour.— jamby
- I used to be terrified of the numbers 18 and 19. I think I thought that when you turned 18 or 19, you die.— Emmy
- When I was six I thought that when all puppies grew up they turned into golden labradors. — Marieka
- I thought that cruise control was like autopilot i.e the car would just drive itself if you turned it on— Yqatuba