I used to believe that the word 'indie' was a way of saying that something was made in India. Like everytime I heard about indie movies & indie music, I wondered how the heck so many things could be made in India! But then it dawned on me that indie meant independent. XD
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I thought that Indian Summer was like the weather in India.Anon
- I used to believe that India and Indonesia were right next to each other since their names sounded alikeAnon
- My music teacher once said that music in an electrical piano was made by little tiny men that lived inside it.Anon
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- When I was younger I thought I had made up the word "nipples" and "thinga-majigger" — Amelia
- I used to think that the word blurb was a noise that people made when being sick. Bluuuggghhh.— Natasha