I used to believe that the kids poem "finders keepers, losers weepers" really said "finders keepers, losers sweepers." I figured that Cinderella had a hard life, and she did a lot of sweeping!
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that God was the fairy godmother from Disney's Cinderella.— Danielle
- I had never seen a dove in real life before so I figured they were just mythical beings from the bibleAnon
- I thought cartoons were for kids and "real-life programs" for adults.— Ichigo
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- I used to believe that a life sentece was for when you stay in jail for your whole entire life.— Sara
- I used to believe that my life was a video game with only 1 life and that God was playing it. — Rina