When I was 6 or 7 we had a pet tortoise who had previously belonged to my Aunt. One day my parents told me it was taken to the Zoo because the Zoo didn't have one. Turns out he died during hibernation and was thrown in a rubbish skip. I'm 21 now and believed the Zoo story up until about a month ago!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i used to think that the ice cream man went into hibernation in the winter....Anon
- I used to believe that you could create money (that you didn't previously have) by writing a check.Anon
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- I used to believe God had a pet tortoise. There was a hymn we sang that went "Great things he hath taught us"— Lozza
- but my aunt used to tell me that if i eat too many noodles, i wud turn into a mummy when i died Anon
- i thought that we were just a big story book that ended when we died— samantha