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When I was younger, I thought shrimp normally lived in fresh water, but if you put them in salt water, they would grow and grow until they turned into lobsters! It wasn't until I, at the age of 10, matter-of-factly told an adult that I was disabused of that little notion.

Manon

when i was little i never had any beliefs. i used to think buffalo were what they were! big fuzzy animals that live on the plains, and all that. but then one day ,when i was maybe 4, we were driving through oklahoma and my dad pointed to a far-off speck on a "tower of rocks", he told my sister and i it was a buffalo!....and the way it got up there was by flying! and that they had wings. i didn't believe him but i always had this nagging thought in the back of my mind that buffalo wings had to come from SOMEWHERE!

FliesWithBuffalo

when my mother said that mandates (like buffalo) like to play in water, i thought that i would coincide a mandate when i'm swimming in the sea

eskibebeto

When I was in pre-school, there was this big tree out in the corner of the playground with a huge knot in the trunk. I used to believe that a family of squirrels lives inside of the tree and the knot was their front door. I'm sure people thought there was something seriously wrong with me since I would spend the majority of recess with my ear pressed against the tree trying to hear the squirrels and talk to them. That probably explains why I didn't have very many friends.

Lexx

When I was little, I thought chipmunks were baby squirrels, and changed colors and grew longer tails as they grew older.

Anon

Okay, here it is. When I was 10, I had a (then 2-yr-old) gecko named Hannah. It was March, so we had houseguests. (sisters JacJac&Jassy+mom&dad) So, one particular morning, Jassy decided to look in on Hannah. (Considering Hannah's room doubles as a guest room) It was about 6:00 in the morning, but JacJac&I weren't up yet. So, Jassy saw s piece of poop in Hannah's terrarium(sp?) and got all freaked out. she ran 2 my room, next door, which JacJac and I happened to be sharing. Jassy then said, "Jolie come here quick!!! I think your gecko gave birth!!!" I, being a lover of reptiles, said, "Reptiles don't 'give birth'. Go look for an eggshell, stupid." "No, I really think so!!!" "Fine I'll come look." When I went to go look, there was notheing but poop. FYI Jassy is 3 yrs older than me and didn't know!!!!!!! Hannah is now nearly 3 and I still laugh at that memory when I pass that room!!!

Jolie Escobar

As a kid growing up my grandfather used to always tell us that the reason for the winding trails going up the slopes of nearby hills (from cattle grazing) was because of these extremely rare animals called Gyrasticuttus's (I can't spell it). Supposedly this animal was born with the legs on one side of its body shorter than the other... which was handy for eating grass as it wound up the hill. Unfortunately once at the top it couldn't get down because of the leg imbalance so it had to tumble end over end in order to get down. I believed him whole-heartedly for years and my sister and I (who usually fought like dogs) would spend entire car rides in silence trying to catch a glimps of the rare beast out our window... which as it turned out, worked very well for my grandparents.

Ez

When I was in kindergarten, my best friend told me all about dinosaurs. Well, I couldn't sleep that night. I thought dinosaurs were still alive and would stomp on my house!

Robbie

i used to believe that jackalopes were very real.

ryan

I used to believe that sheep on hills had two legs shorter then the other,i have believed this all my lfie and only found out last year it was all a lie! (I am 15 now!!)

Amye

I used to believe that if I was nice to animals, they would be able to smell that I was not a predator, and wouldn't hurt me. I used to save spiders and other bugs by catching them and taking them outside. I never killed bugs.
I might have been right. I have yet to be bit/stung/or otherwise injured from an animal, well except a horse stepped on my toe once, but that was an accident.

rach

I used to believe that a vitamin was a small animal
only recently I have found out that it is not true... :)

Sylwia

I used to think rats and bats were the same thing.

Sometimes when a mama rat had babies there would be a winged one and it'd fly away.

So when I got a little older I got a rat who was gonna give birth thinking she'd have a winged baby and it'd make the best pet ever.

Feral

I used to think all mice were white and those whom had other coloring were just painted

Feral

When I was ten, I visited woman's house and she gave me a chicken's egg from her chicken house for me to keep. I didn't know that eggs had to be fertilized by the rooster in order to hatch. I was excited because I thought that a chickie would hatch from it and I would have my own pet chicken! I cradled it on the car ride home and when I got home, I wrapped it in a blanket, put it in a basket and put it under my homework light to incubate it. Unfortunately, my parents told me that the egg WASN'T going to hatch and that if I left the egg there any longer, it would stink. I really had my hopes up :(.

Happy person

I used to believe that from seeing drawings or cartoons of goats eating cans, that they really could eat them.

canned kid

When i was younger i used to believe that there were 2 types of chicken - the ones that run about the farmyard and the one i used to eat!! The sad thing was i used to believe this until i was about 6!!

goldie8907

Because I knew clothes made of wool sometimes shrank in the wash, I used to assume that sheep shrank when it rained.

Marie