When I was little, my mom wanted to buy me a subscription to a magazine called "Children's Digest," but I absolutely refused to get it because I thought the magazine was all about digestion, and who wants to read about that?
A childhood belief about reading

others believed things like this
- My mum's aunt gave her daughter a copy of Jackie magazine. She refused to read it as her name was not Jackie.— Helen
- Because of MAD Magazine, I believed that Elvis died while on the john, with a tub of KFC in his lap.Anon
- i used to believe the rolling stones wrote rolling stone magazine.Anon
- i used to believe it took 7 years to digest gum— lorenn
- When I first started learning to read I was convinced that vowels were called barnacles.— Andy Howell
- I thought pink wafer biscuits would bite me if I touched them. Absolutely no idea why.Anon