You know how in cartoons when someone is about to eat, they rub their hands together? Well, once when I was 3 I watched a fly up close and he did the same thing! I screamed and ran away because I thought it was going to eat me!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe that there were two hands inside the TV making the cartoons move.Anon
- I thought live-action films were very, very well-drawn cartoons.Anon
- I thought cartoons were for kids and "real-life programs" for adults.— Ichigo
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- i didn't beleive this, but a kid my sister knew thought if he screamed in a really high voice, he ran faster.Anon
- Because of cartoons, I thought that to drive you'd just turn the steering wheel back and forth constantly. — Mitsuki