When I was *very* young (though it continued to a worrying age) I was convinced that a zebra was a kind of flightless bird.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I thought that the stripes of the zebra crossings was from a squashed zebra— Helen
- I used to believe that if I didn't jump the white lines of the zebra crossing I would dieAnon
- i thought that if water towers fell the city would flood. So everynight i would stay up worrying.— o.O haku
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- my nana told my brother that if he continued sucking his thumb, it would turn into a matchstick. — tracy g
- until the age of 6 i didnt know bird had feet.Anon