For years, I thought that the "balls" on a penis were on the tip. I believed this well into my teenage years.
A childhood belief about rude bits

others believed things like this
- For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela
- I used to think that girls had "balls" and not boys, and the "balls" were slang for breastsAnon
- i always thought it was Grape Balls of Fire instead of Great Balls of Fire— Courtney
- For years and years I thought telephone poles grew.— Maureen
- When I was about three years old my dad said that he was ten years old and I believed him.Anon
- When I was a kid, I thought the musical Mamma Mia did songs from the A*Teens (the teenage version of Abba)Anon