I used to believe B.C. stood for "Before Cowboys" because I heard it on a cartoon and my dad let me continue to believe it because he thought it was funny. I didn't learn any better until 4th or 5th grade.
A childhood belief about history
others believed things like this
- i used to believe (because my dad told me so) that AM stood for "awful music" and FM stood for "fine music"— skydvgrl
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I thought cartoons were real, I remember asking my mom why there were lines around the "actors" in a cartoon.— Steven Graziano
- When I was little, I thought that if you stood behind the TV, you could see your insides on the screen.— C.W.
- When I was little, I thought that since boys stood up to pee, they could stand up to poop.— Lacey
- I thought that I could get a suntan if I stood really close to a fire for long enough.— Mat