Somebody told me when I was 7 that you can't gain weight until you were 16. So, I ate all the sweets I wanted, and now at age 13, I have now just lost all the weight after realizing my faults.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- I thought it was impossible for anyone to lift more than their own body weight. Just seemed to make sense..— Xenomorph
- I used to believe that if you jumped off the top of a bunk bed, you'd magically gain superpowers.Anon
- That eating grass was a sure fire way to gain superhuman powers.— Brendan
- My friend and I used to believe that we could gain special powers by pressing our bellybuttons and wishing.— Andrew
- When I was a kid, I used to think that tablets were sweets for grown-ups Anon
- I thought that the Chewit wrappers were different flavours as they were different colours like the sweets— Helen