I used to believe that the word "artificial" was actually "art official," like artifical flavored candy was some sort of official art or something.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I used to think that prostitutes were female lawyers. It just sounded so official...— MC
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- I convinced my boyfriend that paprika flavored crisps were made from donkeys...he was 20 at the time.Anon
- I believed Dr. Pepper was pepper-flavored medicine and was afraid to drink it.Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny