My dad and the guy next door had both lost a finger in separate accidents before I was born. I remember thinking that all men, when they reached a certain age, had one of their fingers fall off.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I always thought that freak accidents where accidents that only involved freaks.— Prologic-H-73395
- I used to believe that once you reached a certain age you lost your imagination— Kiwi
- i used to think that biting my nails would make my fingers fall off! ;)— Cassandra
- i used to believe that dogs were born in the sky and would fall from a paracheute.
-Dante-— Dante - I used to believe that a half moon was gods finger nail, and his finger was pointing downwards.— clo
- I remember thinking that non-English speakers were much smarter because they could speak "so much faster." Anon