I used to believe that all twins were identical. It’s not that strange a belief, especially that I did find out a long time ago that there are also non-identical twins. But - I have aunts who are twins and I always just presumed they were identical, and then I met my fiancés aunts who are also twins and again I thought they were identical. About 2 weeks ago my sister told me that my aunts are not identical. I was so amazed and so mentioned it to my fiancé and he then mentioned that his aunts are not identical! (He said ‘did it not give it away they look nothing alike?!’) I’m now 27 so spent all those years believing my own aunts who look nothing alike were identical (and about 5 years thinking his aunts were identical)! It goes to show that those childhood beliefs don’t really let go!
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the maps for the United States and Texas were identical.— JTexas
- I used to believe the sound of a flushing toilet was nearly identical to the 90210 theme. — Laurenne
- My aunts use to tell me that when I pouted the crows would come and bite my lips. Anon
- I used to believe that all my aunts were related to my mother and all my uncles were related to my father.— Mandy
- i always thought twins had the same name as each other— Elle
- i used to believe i would 'catch up' to my big brother one day and we'd be twins.— lil' sis