i'm of irish/english heritage. i thought that i could become black like my closest friend if i spent enough time in the sun. needless to say, i spent much of my childhood dreadfully sunburnt.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that old people were wrinkly because they spent too much of their life swimming— Amy
- I used to think if you got a parking ticket, you spent the rest of your life in jail!— Dixie Chicks Fan
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy
- I believed that if I swallowed my phlegm I would die. I spent hours spitting it out into the toilet.— chunky munky
- I spent ages wondering what a bart ender was as a child without realising that it was actually bar tender.— Heather
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches