I used to believe that if I was nice to animals, they would be able to smell that I was not a predator, and wouldn't hurt me. I used to save spiders and other bugs by catching them and taking them outside. I never killed bugs.
I might have been right. I have yet to be bit/stung/or otherwise injured from an animal, well except a horse stepped on my toe once, but that was an accident.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I thought the Beatles really were bugs.— Spongekid
- I used to think that when you got like a twitching eye or something, it was little bugs under my skin.Anon
- I used 2 believe crumbs turned into bugs.— Jen
- i used to believe that bugs came out of canned bug spray Anon
- i used to think that bugs could understand and talk with us— DarkDeku
- i used to think bugs could sting you through closed glass windows.Anon