When I was younger, I thought shrimp normally lived in fresh water, but if you put them in salt water, they would grow and grow until they turned into lobsters! It wasn't until I, at the age of 10, matter-of-factly told an adult that I was disabused of that little notion.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I took two showers becaue I thought my hair was a plant and needed the water to grow— Tim
- I used to think that if I ate a fruit seed it would grow in my stomach if I drink water after thatAnon
- if you drink water from unsafe places, frogs will grow in your stomach...— Olivier
- ***I used to believe that water towers was a place that someone lived and they controlled the water.— C H R I S T E N
- When I was a kid, I use to believe, when I put salt in my bath water I will turn into a mermaid.— marletha
- i thought that when it was your birthday you grow and then you didn't grow until a years time.— hello