I thought cartoons were for kids and "real-life programs" for adults.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- I thought that kids' pee was yellow and adults' pee was clear.— Aretia
- I used to think that I was smarter than adults. Now I know kids are smarter than adults in many ways— Marshall M
- I used to believe cartoons were real people and animals. They were just wet.— Wendy
- I used to believe cartoons where real people. You can imagine how that went... — Emma
- i USED To beleive that cartoons were real and i made them my imageniary friends!— Shaman Queen