When I was little, I thought that sheep and goats were the same animal. Just that sheep were all female and goats were all male.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- As a young child I thought that sheep and poodles were the same animal.— Jane
- I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.— Phil
- My sister and I thought cats and dogs were the same animal, the dogs were male and the cats were female.— Paul
- I use to think sheep shrank when it rained.Anon
- sheep were wooly pigs— CJ
- I used to believe that humans were a subspecies of sheep.Anon