As a kid I assumed that only really pretty (like movie star or model pretty) people could actually get a boyfriend/girlfriend/lover etc. For some reason it didn't occur to me that if that was the case the world would be populated only by really pretty people since only they would have reproduce
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- I USED TO BELIEVE THAT IF YOU STARED AT A PERSON, THEY COULD NOT TELL YOU WERE STARING AT THEM. PRETTY STUPIDAnon
- i use to think boy geroge from the culture club was a pretty woman.— toe
- My mom used to think "preschool" was called "pretty school" until a few years later.— Molly
- Looking back at it, the belief that dogs eat cats is a pretty funny idea. I used to believe it myself.Anon
- i could swear eleventeen was a number for the longest time -- it still sounds pretty convincing.— erin
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon