I used to believe that if you ate the fat on your steak (or other meats), then that is how people became overweight. I always pictured the fat that i cut off just sticking to my stomach if i ate it.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that overweight people were heavy because they didn't poop.Anon
- when i was younger i thought ants had tongues. i always pictured them sticking their tongues out at me. — i was an idiot
- I used to think that people who donated their kidneys were doing it for steak and kidney pie.Anon
- I used to believe that the way you knew when people were dead was when their toungue was sticking out. — Geneva
- Until recently I thought you could only get diabetes from eating too much sugar not just from being overweight— Tooken
- I used to believe that all meats were chicken. I called everything chicken. :)— Girlfloyd