I used to think that cartoon characters were just people wearing costumes. So one day I asked my older sister what she would do if she met one of the characters from a show we watched. She just laughed at me, and explained that they were drawings.
A childhood belief about cartoons

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 kid I used to believe that cartoons were people dressed up in special costumes.— Sarah-Jane
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela