I'd heard people talk about letter and legal size envelopes on TV, but I didn't know what it meant. I figured that all the envelopes we sent were the "legal" size, because the other size was "illegal."
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I used to think that Legal and Illegal meant the same thing (illegal)— Dhruv
- I thought that blackmail meant sending black envelopes to people.Anon
- Because of a commercial I seen on tv, I thought the whole world was the size of the of the U.S.— Paulette
- I used to think that the stars change their size because every day born one— Mariela
- that....I do not grow old (in size)...rather my clothes and shoes shrink..— mayank
- When i was younger i thought germs and bacteria were the same size as me— Tasha