I'm a New Year's baby and up until I was about 5 or 6, I thought the countdown at midnight was for me. Sadly, the self-absorption hasn't dissipated.
A childhood belief about birthdays

others believed things like this
- Hasn't everyone, at some point or another, believed that pickles grew on trees? I sure did.— Matt c.
- When I was little *I thought that if I dressed in all white I would become invisible.Sadly,I wasn't.XP— Kiki
- I thought there was no midnight in military time; instead, it’d be 24:00.— Enrico
- I only found out last year that a pony is not a baby horse.— Mescaline Frumblethond
- Up until the age of six, i sadly did not know that birds had feet. Anon
- I used to to believe that all adults went to bed at midnight.Anon