I thought that rats were boys and mice were girls, and that colts were an entirely different animal from a horse. I also thought that parakeets and canaries were the same animal.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to think that if you eat an animal, you become that animal
— Hmza - I thought for a long time that beaver and badger are the same animal— Ted Snow
- As a young child I thought that sheep and poodles were the same animal.— Jane
- I thought that the difference between girls and boys was that girls have teeth.
Anon - I used to believe an artichoke was an animal and we only ate its heart. — Laura
- I used to believe that an oilskin actually came from an animal called an Oil.....— Sally