I used to believe that all children had sugar behind their ears because my great uncle would always say "Come give me some sugar!" and then he'd pretend to get the sugar from behind my ears. So I always wondered how the sugar got there and how come only us kids had it!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...
Anon - I thought that a "sugar daddy" was a father who let his kids eat all the sugar they wanted.Anon
- I used to believe that when cordial drink said 'sugar free' that you didnt have to pay for the sugar in it!— Grace Lyon New Addington
- My mum told me that if I ate sugar from the sugar bowl I'd get worms.— QueenB
- Salt is bad tasting sugar.— cobra
- Salt is sugar from a different country.— Santa Puncher