In kindergarden, my teacher would always use the name "Sowenso" as an example for things. I thought that "Sowenso" was an invisible monkey that did the examples that she made him do. I thought Sowenso was in our class until 6th grade when I realized that Sowenso was actaully a phrase "So-and-so".
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso
- I once knew a girl who used to believe that the sun was actaully a really bright gold fish very high up.— meow
- When i was 5, i thought that bananas were monkey poop.— jade-isabelle
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- I used to believe that kindergarden was about cats beacause i thought it was
kittygarden.— Samantha - Yesterday I realised that invisible ink doesn`t make me invisible.— Jonathan Eleven years old