Once during music class, my teacher was sitting on a chair facing us, and made mention to something being on the left, but added, "well, my left, your right." I didn't understand how left and right changes depending on the way you're facing and was confused. I decided that this meant that when people become adults a fairy comes and chops off their hands and switches them so their left hand becomes their right.
A childhood belief about fairies

others believed things like this
- when I was a kid I used to believe if I left the shoe facing the person would die— milena
- I used to believe that "pork chops" were called "port chops", and came from the left side of the pig.Anon
- I used to think that the trails that Airplanes left in the sky, that's how clouds were made.Anon
- I used to turn the TV off when I left the room so I didn't miss anything.— S.Lee
- I used to believe that the streams left behind jets were people going to heaven.— kindofadork
- I used to hold my hand over my hair whenever i left the house and it was windy incase my hair blew away— lisa