When i was very young (around 3-5) i was giving everyone the middlefinger, because people laughed when a ~4y.o. does it. Only till my Mom told me, that it meant 'i like you'. Of course, I immediatly stopped doing it. Can't remember how long i believed it, but probably an uncomfortable long time.

That clowns always looked like a clown. I should spot them out and about, doing groceries and stuff. Like, just the Dad would be a clown. Or, where are the baby clowns; teen clowns, etc?

It wasn't that silly because it was actually a damn good analogy, but:

When I was 4? 6? IDR, my mum taught me that there were "little dragons" in our blood, chomping on everything not belonging to the body. It was her way to explain the immune system, based on a simplified version of how macrophages work.

I'm almost 40 and the picture of little dragons running in the blood still inhabits my mind.

that the government has my best interest at heart and that democracies act in the interest of the people

That the cooling towers from power plants were cloud factories.

I had this weird belief, assumption, whatever, that salt and pepper were anti-particles, and if you could mix them together in just the right way, they would cancel each other out and taste like nothing.

So, multiple times when we as a family went out to eat, I would finish my food and then while all the adults were talking, I would take out a napkin and put salt and pepper on it. And then, because they don't blend together, I would use a little bit of water, like trying to get exactly the right ratio to make the pepper disappear the way the salt did.

I was a born alchemist.

That other people thought the way I did and would make the effort to understand me.

That there is a physical barrier dividing the atmosphere and space in two and preventing air from escaping

That the future portrayed in the 80s was the future I was heading to

Fairness, justice, people, the future, the ability to reason, the ability to learn from experience, chance... I should stop.

Trees were unable to grow to more than 10 feet tall. I clearly had no sense of what 10 feet actually looked like.

That men had one more rib than women. Im an atheist now.

That if I stayed up till 3am, I would see knights coming out of the fort on the hill. Thanks dad!

If I inhaled over a dead creature, I would steal its soul and it couldn't go to its heaven. (Sounds like a psycho, grew up heavy southern Baptist)

My dad told us kids that the huge water tanks painted as soda cans in the coca cola factory actually contained soda.

I thought it was possible to die from messing up your breathing in/breathing out ratio too much.

That the members of congress were permanently attatched to their chairs in the capital building, after having their lower halves removed. And that they spent the whole time in congress making and debating laws before being tucked in at night.

When I met Tip O'neal he did nothing to dissuade me from this belief.