I believed superheroes got their powers by taking special pills, and if I asked Santa for those pills he would give them to me, too.
A childhood belief about father christmas

others believed things like this
- My friend and I used to believe that we could gain special powers by pressing our bellybuttons and wishing.— Andrew
- I beliveve that i got abducted by aleiens and i got special powers and i could talk to animals— I found out
- I use to beleive that bitting my nails will give me powers to stop being afraid. — scaredy cat
- When I was a child I used to believe that my parents WERE superheroes at night.
Anon - When I was a child, I used to believe my parents were superheroes, like the fairly oddparents!Anon
- In my childhood I used to think that all the superheroes I saw on television existed in real life— Cris