i used to believe cats could talk and just held it in. i spent years as a child trying to get my cat says 'hi', whenever a cat meoowed in a low pitch i believed it was in pain and trying to say owww.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- As a child I believed that cats, when they died, became owls and always accompanied you. — AdryLiz
- I spent ages wondering what a bart ender was as a child without realising that it was actually bar tender.— Heather
- When I was a child I used to believe that teddy bears could talk to me at night.— Daiana
- I alwaysused to think white cats were girls, and black cats were male ...— Smiley Face
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- I once told a friend of mine that if you held in a smelly burp, it'd turn into a fart. She believed me.Anon