When I was younger, I truly believed that if someone ever tried to drown me it wouldn't work because I could just keep drinking all the water until it disappeared. I was confused when people did drown and thought "why didn't they just keep drinking?"
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- when i was younger, i thought that people disappeared when i wasn't with them.— Debbie
- I used to think people had a "potty mouth" if they had been drinking out of the toilet.Anon
- until 12 yo i thought buying and drinking coffee was illegal when you were under 18:) — smarty
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon
- i used to believe that drinking and driving was when you were drinking while driving— fay
- as a young child i thought poo was brown from eating chocolate and pee was yellow from drinking apple juice!Anon