I used to believe that grown men never ever cried, because I would never see my dad cry. I was quite shocked when I saw a male teacher cry at my sister's graduation.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think that my teacher lived at school until she came to school late one day. I was shocked!— Wow, you have a life?!
- My sister told me that if you had sweetcorn in your poo, you had six months to live! I cried for weeks — Billy
- I thought the word mailman was male man and it seemed dumb to me as aren't all men male?— andalite
- I used to believe that grown-ups were born "grown up" and that I would stay a little kid forever.— Still A Kid
- I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.— Phil
- I thought grown ups were born grown ups.— mea