When I was about 6 years old and I first heard of "facelifts," I thought the operation involved a complete face transplant. This was in the early '70s. So, when I heard Phyliis Diller had one I thought she'd have a completely different face and somebody else would be walking around with her old one.
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- My little sister used to believe that a mullet was the "hair transplant" operation that balding men get.— Sarah's Sister
- i thought the line "saving my face" from the KT Tunstall song of the same name was "shaving my face"Anon
- If you pulled a face, and the clock struck on the hour, your face would stay in that position.— Jo V...NL
- whenever i heard a melody, i thought it stuck in my stomach when i heard it in my mindAnon
- I thought god looked like the face on the play-doh can!— Jonathan Franz
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren