My childhood best friend confessed several years ago that she had never realized as a kid that sticks came from trees. She thought they were just something you find on the ground, like rocks.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I used to belief sloths lived in trees outside my childhood home. My older sister told me so.Anon
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I thought that islands and continents were floating rocks so you could swim underneath them.— Kat
- I used to believe wind came from trees. And when it was really windy, the trees were really mad.— Tiffany
- When I was little, my parents told me if i ate my fish sticks, I would become invisible.— Jake
- I used to believe that rocks are animals.— Lulzy