I played with Barbies all the time as a little girl, and their lack of nipples led me to believe that my own nipples would fade when I grew up.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I thought nipples disappeared at a certain age because Barbie never had them.Anon
- I used to believe that ants had the smallest nipples in the worldAnon
- I used to believe that all my energy "came from my nipples and my back" I literally said that to my parents.— Eleanor R
- When I was younger I thought I had made up the word "nipples" and "thinga-majigger" — Amelia
- when i was little, i used to believe that a Hawaiian tan would never fade away.— Joan
- I used to believe that giant barbies controlled us like we controlled little barbies— freaky stuff