Before being old enough to know about drugs and alcohol, I thought people committed suicide because they were donating their inheritance and life savings to poor or homeless people when they died, do they would be killing themselves for charity!
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- Until I was about 12 years old I believed that homeless people were made up by my parents to scare me.— Angela B.
- I used to believe that only 'poor' people had to go to the bathroom, that 'rich' people didn't.Anon
- After Grange Hill's "Just say no campaign" that people would force me to take drugs ... if only.— Netty
- for some time I used to think that at a drug store people really sold drugs.— NEO_ryu
- I thought drug stores sold drugs. I never understood how they could sell illegal drugs.— Diana Rios
- I used to use the basketball pump in the air because I thought I was donating fresh air to the needy.— Emily