When I was a child I thought that cartoons were real but everyone was soaking wet. I was 8 or 9 before I was told otherwise.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- I thought cartoons were for kids and "real-life programs" for adults.— Ichigo
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- 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
- When I was a child I used to believe that there were two hands inside the TV making the cartoons move.Anon