July 5/2011- This isn't a belief of mine, but one of my mother's oldest & dearest friends was born in 1941, and being a child she imagined war-torn Europe as a bleak, dangerous, crime-ridden city, instead of a whole continent!
A childhood belief about wars

others believed things like this
- Since I was born on the 4th of July, I really thought the entire country celebrated my birthday.— -Stoddard
- When I was young , I used to believe that all there was only one continent on Earth— M.R
- I used to think that you could get arrested for having a packet of Rizla's that had bits torn off the top...— Patch
- As a child I always wondered why I could see everyone else's face and not mine.— Amit
- As a child I used to think that everybody speaks the same language, mine.— Eva
- I used to think that fireflies only came out for the 4th of July. :-)— Whitney