For years I believed that cheerleaders had to have surgery to remove their hands and put pom-poms in. I vowed never to become a cheerleader -- Good thing too, I'm male.
A childhood belief about sport

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that cheerleaders didn't have hands, just pom-poms where they should be!Anon
- I believed for years that the sun and moon were the same thing - it just glowed more in the day :)— Deb
- I thought the word mailman was male man and it seemed dumb to me as aren't all men male?— andalite
- I believed that all cats were female and all dogs were male. — Biologically confused
- I believed that chickens pooped eggs (male and female)— WHAT-A-Doodle-WHO??
- I used to believe that you could catch AIDS from just looking at a nud girl. Good thing I was WRONG— Mbm4615