When I was little my family bought a new car and because I was stupid, I assumed it was faster. It probably was, but I also assumed it had three wheels. I really thought I was smarter than that, but I guess I never thought about it.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I remember thinking that non-English speakers were much smarter because they could speak "so much faster." Anon
- I use to beleive that Motorways had special tarmac on the road that made the wheels go faster— Nada
- When I was 3 I assumed that my parents were 18 and that every grown-up was 18.Anon
- I used to think that I was smarter than adults. Now I know kids are smarter than adults in many ways— Marshall M
- Since he had fought in WWII, I naturally assumed my grandfather had killed Hitler himself.Anon
- I thought that big people are necessarily smarter because there brains would be bigger— Quatsch