Despite reading Puffin books, and indeed books about puffins as a child, i never made the connection that puffins could have been actual, real organisms. I only found out that they exist a few days ago. I'm eighteen, and in my second year of a science degree at university.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- i used to believe alaska was an island because of the way they put it on our booksAnon
- When I was a little I thought TV was full of tiny books and we would watch one every day— Amine
- There were no writers behind children's books--they just magically appeared at the library! Anon
- I thought the Til Tuesday song said "Books are scary!", rather than "Voices Carry"Anon
- I thought that the women who drove the bookmobile actually wrote all of the books on the shelves.— Dan
- I used to believe that what happened in science fiction/horror is movies was realAnon