I used to believe that war was never fought by real human beings, but only by robots. I thought that people would never subject themselves to carnage of war, and would have inanimate robots fight the wars on their behalf as a proxy.
A childhood belief about wars

others believed things like this
- I thought the Stromtroopers in Star Wars were robots.— Petra B.
- everybody else were robots and I was a human test!
— Chas - I used to believe that boys were like robots and had no real feelings, that they were not even real people.— Lisa
- when i was little i used to think i was the only human and everyone else were robots trying to act human.— Spikey
- When i was 4 i thought that all the grownups where robots— Nomad
- I thought that robots had to poop— Dr.Badguy