My mother has this friend whose last name is Stalker, so when I heard people talking about stalkers, I thought they meant my mom's friend and people related to her.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all my aunts were related to my mother and all my uncles were related to my father.— Mandy
- I used to believe that people with the same first name were related.— Rebecca
- I used to think that all people with the same FIRST name were related.— Lisa
- I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia
- When I was little, my dad had a friend named Scott. I thought my dad's friend was the king of Scotland— Uhhh....
- My little sister's imaginary friend was Kit the talking car from that show Knight Rider.Anon