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I used to believe hampsters were miniature kittens and that when they bit me i would be poisoned.

Dylan McDonald

I used to believe that unicorns truly existed because I saw one at the circus as a kid. For years I would defend what I saw, then I realized it was just a white horse with a horn attached to its head and a beard to its chin. However, I still want to believe in unicorns.

Jerry

I used to believe that there were bats living in my toybox

maxter1524

this kid in my class beleived he was a cheetah. he would act like one most of the time, and would pretend to chew on the desk and stuff like that. I thought it was funny to tell him that everytime I ripped a page out of the National Geographic a cheetah would die. I think he really beleived me because he got pretty upset. I thought it was hysterical and kept ripping out pages and saying "oh look another cheetah just died!"

miniature sadist

I heard that dinosaurs were under the ground, so every time I saw a hill, I thought that was where a dinosaur fell and grass just grew over it.

Charlene Bosiak

My cousin used to think that the name for polar bears was 'snowlar' bears, because they lived in the snow.

Bunny

I used to think guerrillas were the same as gorillas. Imagine how scared I was when I saw Planet of the apes as a kid.

Scotty Carp

I was told by my Dad that mountain goats' right legs were shorter than their left legs so they could walk round and round the mountain, upright. I always believed this up until my teens and probably passed on this misinformation to many of my peers.

Ian

I lived in a small country village when I was a child. My best friend's uncle owned a local farm and we went to visit him. He showed us his newly born calves. When we returned home I told my mum that my friend's uncle Ted had shown us his bollocks.

Philip

on a family holiday we were travelling to an unfamiliar area that had a lot of farming. In the taxi ride from the airport my younger brother aged 2 pointed excitedly at some cows in a field 'look mummy! goats!'. I, the all-knowing 4 yr old corrected him immediately. 'Don't be silly Edward, they're not goats, they're catholics'. Apparently the taxi driver nearly drove off the road..shaking with laughter.

jc

As I very small girl I used to believe that corned beef came from those cows with a pattern of ragged red-brown patches on their hides. That pattern rather resembling corned beef, I imagined the cows were simply sliced up, in some mysterious way which wouldn't hurt them.

Anne Marie

I used to believe I could speak with animmals!!! I used to believe he answer my...

pierre

Ten years ago, I used to believe that animals and human could make love and do "chromosome babies" : half animal and half human !

I never tried on my dog !!!!

Harry and Romain, French students in 8th grade

when i wa small ,i used to believe that horse could fly

joy

Just yesterday I thought about something I used to believe as a child and then I thought what a neat website topic "childhood beliefs" would be. Then today as I was searching Google for "cats wearing clothes" I ended up on this site. Incredible. And coincidentally my childhood belief involves cats. When I was 4 or 5 I spent lots of time looking at books. (My three older brothers all went to school and I had to stay home.) I remember seeing a series of photographs in "The Books of Knowledge" (honest that's what this series of books were called). The first photograph showed a live lion posed on a low rectangular pedestal and the next photo showed a workman putting the finishing touches to a lifesize cement lion sculpture. I cried to think that the poor lion was sacrificed to create art. I believed that the man had simply encased the lion in cement! 

Jojo

I used to believe dinosaurs still lived and I was terrified. When
I looked at snakes and reptilians, I thought they would kill me.

Dimitri French student in eighth grade

When I was about 5 years old I went to the beach with my parents. The 1st day there,I loved it but the second day we went to this museum about sea animals. There was this program about whales washing into the harbor. When we went to the beach I was convinced that the waves were whales and I was trying to save them and every time I tried I was amazed that they dissapeared and turned into water. (I thought they had died and dissintigrated already.)

Save the Whales