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After watching Dumbo a the age of 3 or 4, I firmly believed that all elephants could fly using their ears.... I was really disappointed when I found the truth!

Jess

When I was about 8 or 9, my brother took me for a ride out to the country on his motorcycle. I pointed at a bull that was mounted on a cow. The bull was thrusting itself into the cow. I said "What are those cows doing?" "Dancing" my brother said. "Oh." I said, thinking I never knew cows danced.

Greg

I used to believe I had ear wax because a mouse would go to the bathroom in my ear while I was sleeping.

a.h

when i was a child, my mother always frightened me that my stomach will be ate up by a mouse if I did not eat my meal. So when I always heard this, I take my meal as full as I could thinking that the mouse may eat my ass going inside my stomach.

Anon

when i was about 7 or 8 my mom told me not to give my dog choclate because it was bad for them. So i assumed that Cats couldnt have vannilla. I later found out otherwise

Phillip

I used to belive that all animals could talk but just didn't want to aroung people!

Mallory

My older cousin (actually my father's first cousin) is a hunter, and once when he was on a hunting trip, he shot this gigantic bear and had it stuffed and put in the reception area at his business. When my father and I came to visit him at work for the first time after it was delivered, I was very small at the time, and was naturally quite frightened of the bear. My cousin noticed this, and for some reason thought he would make it better by telling me the bear came alive when everyone left for the evening, and for years I kept visualizing the bear lumbering around his business in the dark (which would have been chaotic, since he owns a cattle breeding operation). I've since grown up and that bear still scares me. He also used to tell me there were mountain lions at the creek by my house. I think he liked to scare me.

no longer paranoid about large animals

a donkey is just a small horse.

Anon

As a kid I remember being exposed to various books, some showing farm animals, including sheep. At one timd I got the idea that sheep were just as big as cows. Later, perhaps from never having seen any sheep that big, I went through a period of doubting the existence of sheep altogether, thinking sheep must be imaginary beasts that I had dreamed up.

Bryan

My mom used to tell me (on long car trips out in the country) to look for the cow-pigs. They were cows with curly tails and pink spots. I would stare out the window forever looking for one (Funny how she always saw them just when I was losing interest but they would always be far off in the distance and I would have to look really carefully for more.)

laura

I thought squirrels tails were solid (not fluff & more like beaver tails) - I guess that I got this idea from depictions in disney movies. Yeah - I finally noticed that this wasn't true a few years ago at age 17ish. (Boy do my friends get a kick out of this story)

jenna

My sister is a college student and just this past easter she and her room-mate admitted to believing that rabits lay eggs since you always see eggs and rabits on easter. We still haven't let them live that down.

Kayla

when visiting a school in washington as a child we were travelling on a school bus. the bus passed a field with cows in it. I asked some of the other children what they were as we did not have them in england. they all fell for it.

Anon

I used to think a banjo was a type of monkey!

Skylla

i used to belive that mice were evil and that was why elephants were scared of them but then i had a pet one and i hide from it when i went into the room so i had to get rid of it because i wouldn't go to sleep until i was sure it was a sleep therefore i was deprived of a lot of sleep

Anon

When I was a kid, my cousin convinced me that acorns were rabbit eggs. I went around stompin' on acorns for the rest of the day lol... She also told me my kitty would fly if I threw him in the air, needless to say...He never came back home...

Stephanie