When visiting my grandparents cabin, I would get bored. To fix this, my grandpa decided to tell me that the squirrel (really just multiple squirrels in the forest) was named Tiny. "Tiny," he said was really a magical little horse (not a pony) that would turn back if I caught it. Wanting to ride it, I'm sure that he and my parents got hours of entertainment watching me chase the squirrels with a bug net.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that chipmunks were baby squirrels Anon
- Until I was about 13 I thought chipmunks were baby squirrels.— Gina
- Until I was about 8, I thought chipmunks were baby squirrels. — allie
- To this day my friend (he's 17) swears that chipmunks are baby squirrels.— Liz
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- My younger sister used to believe that in everybody's belly button there lived a family of squirrels.— Sophie