When I was around 6 or so, I always kept hearing people on the news talking about people being assaulted. For the longest time I thought that bad men were running around throwing salt in unsuspecting people's faces.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- At about age 7 I thought one could see the people running around on a map, if one looked hard enough.— Adam Smith
- when i was a lil kid i used to think salt was dead lice that people but on there food and i never knew why
— jessica diamond - When i was younger up untill i was like 8 or 9 i thought that famous people didnt poop only normal people!!!— kaitlin
- i used to believe the news readers on TV could see us and i'd make funny faces to try to "distract" themAnon
- I used to believe the people of television were talking to me alone !— Margaux, a French student in eighth grade
- That people older than me knew what they were talking about.— Mark