I am 45. When I was a child I used to believe that a TV show did not start until the TV was turned on, rather than at an exact time. I would get so upset on Saturday nights if I came in and my sister had already turned on "Red Skeleton." I would cry because I thought that she had "let it out" before I got there!
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you died when you turned 100, the exact second.— Tianne
- The first time I saw fog, I thought the air had turned sour.— jamby
- when i was little i thought every time i left the room my parents turned into aliensAnon
- There was a time when I thought euthanasia was when veteranarians turned other animals into fish.— Catfish
- That a satchel was a skeleton, and I would have to wear a skeleton on my back for school!Anon
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon