Yes, I'm branching off of the thread
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/general...ood-fears.html, but I'd been considering this one for a while anyways.
What sort of things do you remember believing as a child that turned out to be entirely made up?
(Please, do not make this a political thread. I don't want to hear things like "I believed that policemen are good", or "The government is here to help me.")
I grew up in Massachusetts, and for some reason, I was positive that my family had taken a trip to Denmark. I was discussing this with my mom recently, and it turns out that we had visited Cape Cod. I have no idea where Denmark came from; we never visited Europe as a family.
My friend grew up in a well-off part of Long Island, and only discovered after college that the white puffy weeds are also dandelions. They never lasted past the yellow stage in his neighborhood.