I used to really think that a ferret was a type of parrot because their names rhyme.
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- I used to think Yiddish was pronounced to rhyme with Swedish.Anon
- At the age of around five, I realized that my mum's and dad's names were not mum and dad!— yelloworpurple
- I used to believe that a pigeon was a type of pigAnon
- I used to believe my parents names were mom and dad till i was 9— Sophiae
- I used to think giraffes were a type of horse— Crocotta1
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon