I just got that Anon is short for anonymous. Like others I too thought there were a lot of people with the same name. Even after reading the title under common beliefs, I had to read other posts before I realized.
A childhood belief about names

others believed things like this
- i used to think that Anonymous was a super famous person and Anon was his side-kick XD— AJ aka adrienne
- On this site when people sign "Anon" I thought Anon was one person who believed in a lot of weird things...— Slow to catch on.
- When ever someone said ''read aloud'' I assumed aloud was the title of a book. Lol.— Delaney
- I thought a tidal wave was acutualy a title wave because if the wave was big enough it had its own title!— Nate
- Since the girls name Jackie is short for Jacqueline, I thought the boys name Jack was short for JackalAnon
- Up until I was 10 or 11, I thought the word anonymous was 'annoymous'.Anon