I used to think humans had always been advanced, had airplanes, cars, and modern appliances, and "The good old days" was a conspiracy to make you feel bad about taking it all for granted. I believed ancient civilizations and cavemen were make-believe
A childhood belief about history

others believed things like this
- I thought that cars could only make turns when you used the turn signals...— Toby
- My nephew, at around age three, used to say that airplanes trailing white exhaust were "airplanes on strings".— Mojo!
- i used to think that everyone else in the world were robots, put here to make sure i was good— andy
- I used to believe that good and expensive joggers would make me run fast.— Kats
- I thought Pink's "You make me sick" was "you make me sick, you make me look like a candlestick" LOL— Rice
- When I was younger I asked my parents:
"If bees make honey, do flys make marmalade?"— Mike