I believed that cartoon characters were people dressed in costumes. But I couldent figure out why the color of the costumes were so different from real life.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I used to believe that cartoons were people dressed up in special costumes.— Sarah-Jane
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- I used to believe that before color television the real world was in black and white. — Chris
- i used to believe that the people on TV could see me. i never watched tv without getting dressed first!— Katy
- In my childhood I used to think that all the superheroes I saw on television existed in real life— Cris