my mom and dad thought it would be funny to tell me (the 1 and a half year old) that cows were horses and horses were cows, so for a year they made me think that that was true and i guess my gram yelled at them and told them they should be teaching me the truth
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought cows married horses, cows were all female and horses were all male. — Sheila
- I used to believe cows were ugly horses— Marlene
- I used to believe, as a child, that horses were male cows.— Martin Taylor
- I used to believe that milk came from cows, so water came from horses. hahah— Melissa O'Connor
- I used to believe that cats were the girls and dogs were the guys. Same with cows and horses.Anon
- I used to believe that brown cows made chocolate milk and white cows made regular milk.— andrew mient