When my mum taught me about comets, I thought she said "commas" and so I thought there were flaming punctuation marks in the sky.
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- I thought that exclamation marks were actually "explanation marks", since they explain how you pronounce it.— superoid
- I used to believe that comets were pieces of the Sun that had broken off.— Carmen
- I used to believe that beauty marks (freckels) were Butterfly bites!— Jolene
- i used to belive that children had to be taught how to breathe.— Dave
- When i was little i was so scared of cats, because i taught the turned in to tigers if you saw them.Anon
- As a child I was taught that the tooth fairy would buy our teeth so she could add them to her crown.— Lola