I used to believe that goats were male sheep. This persisted until I was at university and my boyfriend took me to a city farm so I could see goats and sheep - and male sheep - together.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I use to think sheep shrank when it rained.Anon
- sheep were wooly pigs— CJ
- I used to believe that humans were a subspecies of sheep.Anon
- I used to believe that when sheep had their wool sheered off, they became lambds again.— Janet
- I used to believe that when sheep die, god takes their wool and makes it into clouds— Oded
- As a young child I thought that sheep and poodles were the same animal.— Jane