Up until I was about 15, my dad had convinced me that Karl Marx was one of the Marx Brothers, I was eventually corrected by my teacher in front of the entire class.
A childhood belief about politics

others believed things like this
- i used to think that groucho marx and karl marx were brothers.Anon
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- I used to believe that the Chinese boy in my kindergarten class flew from China every day to get to class.— Debi
- When I was in kindergarten, I used to believe that they locked the teacher's in the teacher's lounge at night.Anon
- I used to believe that horses laid eggs. No one ever corrected me...— kelly
- I thought your loins were kidneys, and nobody corrected me until I was a teenagerAnon