Up until I was *eleven*, I thought "anxiety" was just a word for any negative emotion, the reason being that a lot of my school peers thought I was afraid when I was actually sad/angry.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was nine, I thought two eleven-year-olds could get married.Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon