When I was 9 years old, I heard my dad listening to something on the Discovery Channel about the Great Depression. Using my warped information, I concluded that the Great Depression was caused by large numbers of people jumping off of tall buildings and creating a huge hole (or depression) in the street.
A childhood belief about history
others believed things like this
- I used to think that clinical depression was called "cynical" depression.Anon
- I thought that FDR was an government organization during the Great Depression, not a president.Anon
- I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- I used to let go all my balloons so my great grandma would get it in heaven— lissa
- When I was little I used to believe that God looked like the Great Gazoo (the alien from "The Flintstones").— Susan
- "God is good, God is great, lettuce thank him for our food Amen"— pj