I used to believe that when you turned off the TV, the show you were watching paused. When I came back home from doing something, I always got pissed at my family b/c I thought that they turned the TV on.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I used to believe if you were watching TV, and you turned it off, it paused.Anon
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon
- I used to think that 'black comedy' was show like Family Matters and The Cosby Show.— Katie
- The first time I saw fog, I thought the air had turned sour.— jamby
- I used to be terrified of the numbers 18 and 19. I think I thought that when you turned 18 or 19, you die.— Emmy