i used to think when people said things like "there he is at twelve o'clock" they were talking about the time. I was around 12 until i realized they were talking about direction.
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- I used to believe the people of television were talking to me alone !— Margaux, a French student in eighth grade
- That people older than me knew what they were talking about.— Mark
- When I was younger - I used to believe my stomach rumbling was little people in there talking to me.Anon
- I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia
- I used to believe when dogs bark and cat meow they are talking to each other— frogg gurl
- when i was a kid i used to think farts were another person in my tummy talking and he had bad breath— JOEY