When I was 6 or 7, I grew up in that generation of Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon, so not only did I believe that if you learn martial arts you can utilize flying, and energy blasts, that if you believe hard enough and "train" that when you turn 14, you can become a sailor scout....Also only in japan did Pokémon and Digimon exist (they didn't coexist in the same area however), and you could only receive a partner if you lived there. So my pikachu plush was the closest I got to having a "real" Pokémon. I watched too much TV as a kid lol
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- When I was young, I used to think I was Sailor Moon— Emma
- I used to believe the the tooth fairy was a Pokemon fan because she got me Pokemon Crystal for my lost tooth— Pokemon fan
- That "martial arts" had something to do with marriage. — Mike Lewyn
- I used to think that if you ate spinach that eventually, you would be as big as popeye the sailor man.— Corrine
- I thought Oklahoma was a place in Japan (due to it weird name :P), and Japan gave it to USA later.— Luiz Alfonso
- I use to believe that Godzilla was real. And thought I could see him if we traveled close to Japan.Anon