I thought the book "Ramona Quimby, Age 8" was only for kids eight years old and up. I was highly offended by the ageism.
A childhood belief about reading

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the dust at the top of doors was highly poisonous and could kill you.Anon
- i thought that we were just a big story book that ended when we died— samantha
- I thought Kaa's name from The Jungle Book was spelled "Car" and that he had a brother named Truck.Anon
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I believed the book Babar was how my name was spelled.— Barbara
- I used to believe that copying definitions out of a book counted as plagiarism!Anon