I used to think that the reindeer was just a made-up animal used for the story of Santa and holiday cheer. I only found out differently when I went to a Christmas store with my dad and they had real reindeer on show.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe reindeer made it rain because for many years it rained on christmas eve night.Anon
- I didn't know Reindeer existed, I thought they were just christmas animals for storiesAnon
- i used to bielieve if you get hit
in the nose you will turn into
rudolph the rednose reindeer— kurt santana - I believed that Reindeer loved popcorn, and so I would cook a bag and scatter it on the porch.— Popcornsanta
- For the longest time I thought that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very "chinese" nose...Anon
- My father convinced my little brother it was "Mount Reindeer" not Mount Rainier.— K