My cousins lived out in the country when I was younger, and one time they got all freaked out because someone said there were "poachers" prowling the woods. Being the little chunker that I was, I was ecstatic at the prospect of nice strangers coming by to cook us some poached eggs.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- My younger sibling thought that Brittany was the name of the country where British people livedAnon
- Strangers in the night, exchanging glasses...
well I was only young at the time!— ..maz.. - When I was younger, I thought Eskimos ate penguin eggsAnon
- When I was little, I used to believe that Illinois (where I lived) was a countryAnon
- i used to think, when i was about 4 that i lived inside a whale because i live ion the country Wales— mike
- I used to think the Black Country region in the UK was called that because everyone lived in darkness there.— K