When I was young I thought the oil company called Esso was actually 3SSO, because the font used for the E looked like a 3 backwards. I didn't recognise it as an E until it was pointed out to me that it was not a 3. I must be dyslexic or something.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I thought that the insurance company Aflac was owned by Ben AffleckAnon
- i used to think that french was english backwards!— ---pepsi---
- I used to think that Russian was just English backwards— Millie
- I used to believe the D in the Disney logo was a backwards G. I never understood why.— Nancy
- I used to think my priest was a bit foolish for never having noticed that Dog is God written backwards— anticap
- I used to believe that if I spelled Norwegian words backwards, it would be English. I don't anymore...— Gudrun