For reasons that escape me and in spite of the evidence all about me, I was convinced for many a year that people died on their birthdays.
Oddly, I never feared my own. Probably because I thought only old people died.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- i always thought that people always died with their tongue hanging out— Ernesto Shredder
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- I used to believe that when people died, they vanished into thin air. — KJ
- I used to believe that when people died their eyes would turn to XsAnon
- When I was a child I used to believe that people died in order of age.— Silvia Spinetti
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that when people died, they would stand up and walk to their own graves.— Mark (england)