Until the age of about six I assumed that people killed in movies and tv shows were convicted criminals on Death Row who were going to die anyway.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- Since he had fought in WWII, I naturally assumed my grandfather had killed Hitler himself.Anon
- I used to believe when a person was convicted of a crime and sent to prison, his lawyer went to prison, too.— Tara
- I used to believe that the people who got shot in TV shows where people who wanted to die.Anon
- when i was little i thought a serial killer was someone who killed people for their cereal— emily
- I used to believe that serial killers where people that killed u while eating breakfast— nick gunderson
- i used to think that the paparazzi were a group of Italian criminals or spies. i have no idea why?? Anon