I thought that the news anchors on tv were actors, even though the news was real. It made sense, since people on tv and in the movies had real names and screen names.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to think actors in movies sometimes had to actually die to make the movies look real.— Dero
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- I used to believe that when I went to movies people were behind the screen acting out the part — Amy
- I used to believe that boys were like robots and had no real feelings, that they were not even real people.— Lisa
- I use to believe thar the movies were real— Dennis G
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon