When I was in kindergarten the teacher would tell us to "make sure to color inside the lines" but until I was in about 2nd grade I always thought she said "color inside the lions." I was always very confused, where were the lions?! Coloring was a tad scary for me then...I thought a lion would pop out.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that sea lions were actual lions that lived in the sea.Anon
- I used to believe that belly button lint came from the *inside*. Why else would it always be the same color?Anon
- I had alligators and cartoon lions under my bed.— ruth
- I used to believe that lions married tigers. Anon
- I used to believe that tigers were girls and lions were boys— Ruth
- When I was 5 or 7 years old, i used to believe that lions are made in a factory. — Douglas j