I used to think that bartenders were scientists and when they were mixing drinks, they were really mixing chemicals and trying to poison people.
A childhood belief about chemistry

others believed things like this
- I thought you could get toffee from mixing tea and coffee.Anon
- I actually asked my mother if mixing girls' poop and boys' poop would cause an explosion.— kraine
- When people talked about serial killers, I thought that they put poison in your cerealAnon
- I used to believe serial killers were actually people that went round slipping poison into cereal boxesAnon
- I used to think you had to be an adult to drink household chemicalsAnon
- I used to believe that scientists were robots and they had some kind of chip in their brain.Anon