when i was ten i learnt the word "suicide" and up until the time i was twelve i thought it was pronounced "sewercide" and that when people killed themselves they would do it in the sewer to avoid possible rescue.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- When I was young I used to think that WHSmith was all one word, and was thus pronounced "Wwwhhhhuuusmith"— Nathan
- I used to believe that the word 'circumstances' was pronounced 'circus dancers'.— Mel
- When i first saw the word "Czech" somewhere, i pronounced it "siz-ETCH" in my head — Pachisu
- when i was little i thought a serial killer was someone who killed people for their cereal— emily
- I used to believe that serial killers where people that killed u while eating breakfast— nick gunderson
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey