I always thought that a turtle's shell was hard and able to protect them from any harm's way. It was not until my last year of highschool (yes, that late) that my classmates decided to enlighten me with the truth - a turtle's shell won't protect them from being ran over by a car. My naiveness has since been shattered beyond repair.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was a child i thought turtle wax, was to wax turtles.— J.P.
- I used to believe that pickles were hot dogs made from turtle meat.— Jerry Moe the Gimp
- When i was little i thought that the soul was a physical part of your body that looked like shell pastaAnon
- I used to believe that the sky is just a very thin blue egg shell— Alan
- I used to think shell macaroni was sea shells.— Don Northrup
- Turtles can fly. I believed it for ages.
My turtle got lost or probably died and I was told it flew away.Anon