Until I was a teenager, I believed that vegetarians ate only vegetables. Once I read a book where a vegetarian ate a candy bar, and I was like, "Look, this author is so bad, he doesn't even remember his character is a vegetarian!" My mom had to set me straight... :|
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- Up until I was 10 I used to believe turkey was vegetarian.Anon
- I thought vegetarians couldn't read Chicken Soup for the Soul. — Aretia
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy
- Until I was a teenager, I believed that rain made worms came out of driveways.— Marc
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon