When I was little I thought my grandmothers oldest brother had died of heart disease. When she corrected me, years later that he had, in fact, died in the war, she asked me why I thought that.
"I thought you said he had a Purple heart." I replied
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- The song called heart of glass mixed me up as a kid. I heard "Heart and ass". — oops
- I used to think that when people had heart attacks someone came and stabbed their heartAnon
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- I used to think that if you eat pig heart, you could grow another heart and be twice as healthier. Anon
- I thought you always die if you A. get cancer or B. have a heart attack— Nate
- I thought the song "Party Time" by Moby was actually saying "heart attack" (this was before I knew the title)— Elviessa