When I was 6 I didnt know what the word raw meant. My friend told me that raw bananas would kill you if you ate them. Later I saw my mom eating a banana. I asked her if it was raw and she said it was. I got really scared that my mom was going to die until she explained what raw meant.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that in China, instead of Adam and Eve eating an apple? They believed it was a banana.— smartygirl
- my husband believed, until recently, that the word "several" meant seven of something. — sheryl
- I used to believe that "nuptial" was a naughty word. I thought it meant nipple. XD— Sara Hagen
- i used to think the word "friendship" meant a special kind of rocketship that you went on with your friends.— chips ahoy!
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz