Down the road from my home is a ditch with cattails growing in it. Growing up, I was convinced that this was a small hot dog farm. At the time this made perfect sense, as we lived in a farming community.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I used to think that growing pains meant that a tomato plant was growing in your stomach.— Annette
- I used to believe that mosquito larvae were baby hammerhead sharks. Made the ditch a very dangerous place!— Karen
- i used to think a small man named homer lived in my grandmother's freezer and made ice. — ana
- I used to believe that my clothes were shrinking not that I was growing.— Joann
- Adults lived in continuous perfect harmony with each other.— Wangchuk
- In my youth,I was always convinced that my chocolate easter eggs came from my uncles chicken farm!— Jamsie