The logo for the US postal service in the late 80's and 90's was a profile of a bald eagle. I could never see the eagle properly. I thought it was a really crappy abstraction of an eagle head with the tip of the wing as the nose, the rest of the wing as the head, and the body and head as the collar (cause the eagle was wearing a collared shirt, of course!) It wasn't until I was 12 that I suddenly realized it really was an eagle.
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Eagle Brand Condensed Milk was actually an eagle's milk!Anon
- When I was little I thought seagulls were called seagles. Like a portmanteau of 'sea' and 'eagle'.Anon
- When I was little I thought seagulls were called seagles. Like a portmanteau of 'sea' and 'eagle'.Anon
- I used to think seagulls were called seagles. Like a portmanteau of 'sea' and 'eagle'.
Anon - I used to think that the Eagle's song "Life in the Fast Lane" was actually "Pike in the Bass Lane."— Quilla
- our grandfathers bald head was because our granmother pulled it out when she got mad at him— daniel copeland calif,u.s.