When I was younger I believed that every movie (or piece of literature) that had the title of the movie (or book) in it was true. For example, "Pinocchio" was based on a true story because they said Pinocchio all the time.
You can imagine how terrifying this made everything.
A childhood belief about films

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when a movie was 'based on a true story' it was happening for real then and there— Tom
- I used to think that a movie is made in realtime. I tought that a 2 hour movie is made in 2 hours.— Alexander
- when i was little i believed that when we watched a movie people had to act the movie all over a gen.
— Emmer - I am Canadian and when I was little I would sing "True Pastry Love" instead of 'True Patriot Love"— Jess
- I used to believe that if i swallowed some Play-Doh and made a wish, my wish would come true.— Nadia
- Someone told me mascara was made from bat feces. To this day, I'm not sure if it's true.— Schmoopy