I understood that what I heard in stories wasn’t necessarily true, so I didn’t believe thieves actually existed.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I didn't know Reindeer existed, I thought they were just christmas animals for storiesAnon
- I thought that big people are necessarily smarter because there brains would be bigger— Quatsch
- I used to think that if you ate cat food you would die. I found out it wasn't true
— Bob#4 - I used to believe Santa existed— Joaquin E. Hurtado
- When I was kid I used to believe that I had to earn enough money to have one of everything that existed.Anon
- I used to believe that female roosters existed. Anon