As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.
A childhood belief about classes

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when your pencil ran out of eraser that if you sharpened it it would grow a new eraser— Nikkie
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon
- i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.— waiting to die
- I used to believe only certain men grew beards, not all of them.— Shauna
- When I grew up, I was going to be a mom with no kids.Anon
- When I was about 4 I used to want to be a dolfin when I grew up.— Baylie 8yrs old