I thought ponies were baby horses until I was in my 20's. A very bright little girl I was babysitting corrected me. We laughed really hard about it. She was kind enough not to make fun of me.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think that ponies were young horses. I was embarrasingly old when I discovered the truth.— Al's view of the world
- I used to believe that horses laid eggs. No one ever corrected me...— kelly
- I once knew a girl who used to believe that the sun was actaully a really bright gold fish very high up.— meow
- When I was little I thought cows married horses, cows were all female and horses were all male. — Sheila
- I thought the white circles you see when looking at a bright window were what atoms of air look like.— H.
- I thought your loins were kidneys, and nobody corrected me until I was a teenagerAnon