When I was little cut off shorts were the thing! So when someone said,"cut-off shorts" I thought they meant you actually had to cut off your legs!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I thought that exorcise and exercise both meant the same thing— Dobby Bob
- I thought the phrase "At one's disposal" meant you should dispose of the person or thing.— Geirskogul
- I thought “guerrilla tactics” meant fighting like a gorilla— beating your chest and that sort of thing.— Kai
- when i was little i always asked my mom if my aunt had ant legs or people legs.— kelly
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- I once thought that snakes had legs like a centipede.Anon