When I was about three, I believed that pencils got longer as you sharpened them. I couldn't understand why we bought a whole pack of twelve pencils when we only needed one.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought "Pencilvania" was a huge store that sold pencils and nothing but pencils.— Tim
- i used to believe you couldn't draw on erasers with pencils because it would erase itself— Samantha
- I used to think the entire state of Pennsylvania was made out of pencils.— Pencil-vania
- I used to believe that people got lead poisoning from being stabbed (accidentally) with pencils.Anon
- I used to belief that if you bought a car you needed to put it togetter yourself— Bugs
- I used to believe that when your pencil ran out of eraser that if you sharpened it it would grow a new eraser— Nikkie