When I was about 8, while walking in the woods with my best friend, we heard a dog barking. She whispered in a scared voice that it was a German Shepherd. I gasped, not knowing what a German Shepherd was. I assumed it was some type of freaky monkey/monster combination.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- When people would ask me what was my background, I would tell them 1/2 German and 1/2 Brooklyn!— Randy
- I used to think it was illegal to speak German in Germany because of World War Two.— Anonymous
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori
- German tiger tanks shot out tigers, the invading army would get mauled to death by all the tigers— Bob
- I used to think that an imbecile was some type of seal, before knowing that it meant someone stupid.Anon