I was probably one of many kids who truly believed that Mrs Butterworth really talked. The exception with me was that I thought she only did it if she didnt know you were there. So I would hide and try to "catch" her talking.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I usedto belive that if you didnt have kids, you would never get old— Dessy
- I believed money didnt exist and you could just get anything you wanted.— Mr Money
- I used to believe that when people talked about 4x4 trucks, I thought it meant all the wheels turned.
— tracy - When people talked about serial killers, I thought that they put poison in your cerealAnon
- Like most kids growing up, I believed there was an upside-down word on the other side of the mirror.— Taylor (14)
- I believed we were little kids till we were 17, and at our 18th birthday we woke up as adults.— Hoppip