My mother used to get incredibly frustrated when trying to order clothes for me out of a catalog. I persisted in the belief that if I wore the clothes that were pictured, I would look identical to the person who was wearing them in the catalog -- right down to hair and eye color.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- When I was little I used to belief that my clothes shrunk systematically, instead of me growing...— Nico
- I used to belief that the Muslim women who wore their garment wore it because they were bald.Anon
- I use to believe that people who wore tuxedos were actually wearing the skins of Penguins. — Keith
- I used to believe that my clothes were shrinking not that I was growing.— Joann
- I used to think that the clothes in the thrift store were new— Ellie
- I used to believe that clothes got smaller if you didn't wear them very often.Anon