When I was little, I believed that your voice box was your adam's apple, and a literal box in your throat. I figured the bigger the box, the louder you could yell. I also thought that cats didn't have voice boxes, but they had purr boxes instead, because you could feel the purr in their throats.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was a little girl I used to believe cats were broken because of their moter sound when they purr— Shaune F.
- I used to believe that in China, instead of Adam and Eve eating an apple? They believed it was a banana.— smartygirl
- I used to believe that an Adams apple was a piece of apple that was stuck in someone's throat.— Ron Aaron
- i didn't beleive this, but a kid my sister knew thought if he screamed in a really high voice, he ran faster.Anon
- I thought a serial killer was someone who crushed boxes of cereal for a living like a hitman!— Carole-Ann
- I used to believe that the white boxes that housed bee hives were cow graves.— Bub