I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- I thought cartoons were for kids and "real-life programs" for adults.— Ichigo
- 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 believe that fax machines and computers sent real sheets of paper through the lines.— H
- i USED To beleive that cartoons were real and i made them my imageniary friends!— Shaman Queen
- I used to think actors in movies sometimes had to actually die to make the movies look real.— Dero