When I was about 5 years old, I thought that grasshoppers liked to live in water. Needless to say, all of my captured grasshoppers ended up dead until I learned otherwise.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that big grasshoppers would spit tobacco at you if you got too close to them.— Uni
- When I was young my mother used to tell me that guacamole was actually crushed grasshoppers.Anon
- I used to believe that molasses were made by grasshoppers rubbing their back legs together.— Valerey Lavergne
- One day when I was 6 I learned that the toilet was NOT a water cooler. :/— J.C.
- when i was 5 i used to think that people only live for 10 years and i thought that my parents were 7.Anon
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon