I thought that gnats were baby flies, then one day I found out about maggots. yuck
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- when I was little I was afraid of flies until mom told me they were baby birds!— Lisa
- I use to believe that dragon flies and fire flies were fairies— lady eberly
- I used to believe that flies were called "bloody flies"!— Angelface
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- haha... i was around six or seven... i thought that mosquitoes grew into flies... weird..— ?!
- i used to think flies were little birds!— unforgiv3n