I used to believe that cartoons were actual real life people, places, and things, except, covered in tin foil and painted to render them flat.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- I thought cartoons were for kids and "real-life programs" for adults.— Ichigo
- I used to believe that hazelnuts were real currency, with actual value to buy things. — Valerie, Ottawa Canada
- I used to believe cartoons were real people and animals. They were just wet.— Wendy
- I used to believe cartoons where real people. You can imagine how that went... — Emma
- i USED To beleive that cartoons were real and i made them my imageniary friends!— Shaman Queen
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano