When I was a kid, my grandma gave me and my brother Smarties one time right before it was time to go back to school, and she said that if we ate one a day, it'd make us smart. I can't believe we actually believed her, lol.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- I believed for a long time that brown cows gave chocolate milk!— Evil Mom
- When I was a kid, I believed that bible school was "beauty school", and called it that all the time.— Dana
- I didn't mind eating lambs brains when I was a kid because I thought it would make me smart.Anon
- I always believed that my dad went to school with Billy Bunter. I think my brother believed it too!— Karen
- i used to believe that smart people were smart because they drank a lot of teaAnon
- I used to honestly think that Smarties were medicine.Anon