I used to believe that all commercials were shown live and that each time a commercial with a school aged kid came on, that the child was signed out of school in order to perform the commercial. With that belief, I wanted to be on TV so bad!
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- When I will little I used to believe that when you got married, you signed a contract to order a baby! LOL— Kriatina
- Because of a commercial I seen on tv, I thought the whole world was the size of the of the U.S.— Paulette
- When I was little, I used to think the commercial advertising the Mitsubishi car was actually a Mr Fishy Car.Anon
- I used to believe that spaghetti grew on trees, based on a pasta commercial from the 70s.— Dianne
- i thought aliens would come to earth year 2000 because of a commercial were an alien ate a hot dog— ulle
- When I was a kid, I believed that bible school was "beauty school", and called it that all the time.— Dana