My younger sister was seven and she was colouring in a picture I had drawn when she asked me if you could have brown birds, to which I replied "yes" of course. Then she said "oh yeah - in Pakistan".
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- at the age of seventeen my sister thought another name for a pigeon hole was a birds nest.— Sophie
- When I was five, I tried to report myself to the police because I'd drawn on the furniture.Anon
- My 6 years younger sister used to tell me that I was younger than her. She was just growing backwards.— Taryn
- I thought live-action films were very, very well-drawn cartoons.Anon
- My mom always used to tell me that brown eggs came from brown chickens.— Taylor
- when I was little I used to think that white people had pink poop (i am brown so my poop is brown)— helena muteka