I used to think that cartoons were people who painted themselves up and went on set. I remeber asking my mom how they get all the paint on them and such. Oh...good times.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- when i was little, i thought that a con artist was a person that painted pictures of people commiting crimes— kimkim
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- I used to wonder why people didn't have outlines like they did in cartoons.— Anna
- I used to believe cartoons were real people and animals. They were just wet.— Wendy
- I used to believe cartoons where real people. You can imagine how that went... — Emma
- When I was a kid I used to believe that cartoons were people dressed up in special costumes.— Sarah-Jane