When people call Mexicans 'wetbacks,' I thought that 'wetbacks' were meant when a person takes a shower or plays with water, they're back was wet.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I used to think when I peed in the shower as a kid, the water coming back through the showerhead was my pee.— gregg
- I used to believe that take a shower meant to go steal a shower from the storeAnon
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic
- I used to believe Mexican food was made from real Mexicans!— Holly W.
- I used to think that if you go into a shower nothing can hurt you because you're protected by water — Foxxip
- i thought that soft drinks in America would explode in a person's mouth bocause they call it 'pop'.— Aussie!