I used to believe that only people who celebrated Christmas were allowed to have chimneys on their houses. It seemed perfectly natural that this should be the rule, although I'm not quite sure how I expected it to be enforced.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to think my birthday was a holiday everybody celebrated ]w]— Rin
- I used to think my birthday was a national holiday and the whole world celebrated it— アノン
- As a child i was under the impression that the huge power station chimneys were cloud makers.— scruffyoik
- Since I was born on the 4th of July, I really thought the entire country celebrated my birthday.— -Stoddard
- i used to think water towers were houses for really tall people. I thought they had big heads to.— Alyssa
- I used to believe that the Beatles were friends of my father, and I always expected to meet them.— Rafa Garnica