i assumed that when I turned the TV off, the show would stop, and never understood why, when i turned the TV back on after dinner, my cartoons were gone and the evening news was on instead. :(
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- my Dad told me ice rinks were defrosted every evening and turned into swimming pools— neil
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon
- Because of cartoons, I thought that to drive you'd just turn the steering wheel back and forth constantly. — Mitsuki
- I used to believe that everyone died when they turned 40. — Sara
- i used to believe everybody died once they turned 100— mis-spent youth