My first pet was a goldfish. I was so proud of my goldfish and would take it out of the water to show it to my little friends. Also, I thought it would want to play with me. I think it died after a week.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- Up until the age of nine, I used to think that Marmalade was made out of goldfish.— Sadie
- To clean the goldfish you put washing up liquid into its bowl.— Sev
- my brother told me rice crispies were really fish eggs we gave to the goldfish. I never ate rice crispies.— johnboy
- When I was a kid I always thought that a water tower was the robot from the TV show "Lost in Space".— sherryj
- I used to believe that life was like a tv show and that the world ended when I died.— mortimer x
- When I was young I used to believe if you died in the water, you'd become a mermaid.— stefanie