When I was little, my dad would tell me all the sounds the animals would make. One day, I got a playset with African animals, and he picked up the zebra and told me that they said "zeeeeebra!" I believed this until I saw real zebras on TV.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that unicorns were real animals until I was about 16...lol...— Tara
- I used to believe cartoons were real people and animals. They were just wet.— Wendy
- I thought that the stripes of the zebra crossings was from a squashed zebra— Helen
- I used to believe that when we died (and animals) died they were picked up in a bus with there name on it.— Lawny
- when i was 2 or 3 believed that i had lots of animals in my tummy it made sense my mum had baby in hers.— kjc
- I used to believe that zebras have detachable stripes.Anon