My dad was stationed in Thailand during Vietnam, and when he came back, he had a photograph of himself holding a blonde monkey. He told me that I looked just like the monkey when I was a baby, so until I was 9 or 10, I believed that we were all born monkeys, then turned human when we got older.
A childhood belief about reproduction

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant the baby could play monkey bars on her ribs.— Laura
- I thought a Monkey was just a baby Gorilla and when they grew up their Tails fell off!— Brainhead
- as a kid, i was told by my older cousins that i wasnt human until i turned 7 years old.— twk
- when i was a kid i used to believe the monkey could speak— killian
- i used to think that kiwis were monkey eggs— alyssa
- I used to think monk was short for monkey.Anon