When I was small, a well-meaning neighbour told me that the hand you write with is your right hand, and the one that's left over is your left hand.
Guess who's left-handed? This left me thoroughly confused for many months!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to hold my hand over my hair whenever i left the house and it was windy incase my hair blew away— lisa
- I usd to believe that, all Americans were left handed and we all died when we reached our 100th birthday!— Greg Baron
- I used to think that my right hand wasn't my right hand anymore if I turned around.— Mike
- When I was small, my brother would bug me and say that if my hand was bigger than my head, I had a tumor.Anon
- I used to believe that when you ate a tic-tac it tumbled down to your left big toe— tady wady
- The sea was there because I left a tap dripping all night.— wolfie