When I was five, I thought those five pointy things on my hand were called "thingers." You know, thingers, to pick things up with.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the things you get in your teeth were called feelings.Anon
- I used to believe that you could pass things down the telephone.Anon
- I used to believe that when you lost things, it sometimes was because they had really vanished. — fluffy
- For a while, I thought hand grenades were called "hen grenades" and they were made of rotten eggs.— Athazagoraphobia
- I used to think that when you get older you could go back and redo things. — cobra
- I used to believe that the crust and the bread were two seperate things.— Kevin