As a young child I believed that actors didn't look anything like the characters they portrayed. They were all wearing elaborate rubber masks (think Mission Impossible) designed to make them look like the writers' imaginings of their characters.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- When I was smaller I used to think that if I broke the Tv the characters would come out x]Anon
- I thought Bonnie and Clyde were fictional characters.Anon
- When I was a child I used to believe that doctors wore those face masks incase they threw up.— Nicole
- I thought it was impossible for anyone to lift more than their own body weight. Just seemed to make sense..— Xenomorph
- As a child I used to think that actors really died in movies.— Jordi Comendador
- There were no writers behind children's books--they just magically appeared at the library! Anon