When I was a little girl, I used to believe that when I went to the swimming pool, I became a nermaid. When I went to the swimming pool for my first time and I went in the water, I didn't become a nermaid... I was so sad and I was crying... Since this moment I no longer believe in nermaids!
A childhood belief about i'm different

others believed things like this
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- I believed that the ladder on the back of a trailer/rv led up to a swimming pool.— marilese
- I used to believe that if you farted while swimming in the pool, it could propel you foward really fast.— Rick
- Up until I was in 3rd grade I believed my bathing cap is what kept me afloat in the swimming pool! Anon
- When I was a kid I used to think the "carpool lane" was an actual pool cars went swimming in— skeez
- I believed that the Kreepy Crawlie used to clean our pool, would follow me around the pool and eat me. — Mother-of-2