I used to believe every person was connected by thin threads, only when I became older I realized my mother was referring to DNA. This was when I was about 10 years old.
A childhood belief about chemistry

others believed things like this
- i used to think that mother nature was a real person— stephen s
- I used to believe that the sky is just a very thin blue egg shell— Alan
- I used to believe that when people died, they vanished into thin air. — KJ
- i used to beleve that the sun had thin long legs and followd me wherever i went..— Hege
- I could NOT understand why, if a pen worked on paper, it couldn't also write in thin air.— Can you guess what it is yet?
- I thought until fairly recently that bacon came from the skin of a pig and that's why it was so thin— Nate