When my mother told me that she had broken her leg in a car accident when she was young, I thought that her leg was broken off completely and that it grew back over time.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When i was about 5 I used to believe that Broken Hill was a broken hill. — Saad
- I used to believe that comets were pieces of the Sun that had broken off.— Carmen
- Broken bones meant that your arm or leg was separated from your body.— Kelly Hanson
- When I was a little girl I used to believe cats were broken because of their moter sound when they purr— Shaune F.
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- I used to believe that echos were actually the sound going completely around the world and coming back to you.— kyle