When I was a child, I used to believe that if you cut a person in a magazine with your scissors, it would actually hurt them.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- I used to think cut and paste meant there were scissors and glue inside the computer!Anon
When I was a child I thought there was a person inside the ATM— Grace- As a child I believed that when a person was fired from their job, they were executed on a firing range. — damien
- Because of MAD Magazine, I believed that Elvis died while on the john, with a tub of KFC in his lap.Anon
- I called every body part my elbow. For example if my leg hurt I would say my elbow hurt.— Kady
- My mum's aunt gave her daughter a copy of Jackie magazine. She refused to read it as her name was not Jackie.— Helen