Things you believed as a child?

I remember thinking that cats were female dogs.

I remember wondering why the sun and the moon never crashed into each other.

Is this the wondering or believing thread?

I believed goats were the male counterparts to sheep and that all sheep were females. This was finally dispelled when I was 41 years old.

I believed 1. a4 was the best way to get your rook into the game.

santa claus
the easter bunny
the tooth fairy
online compassion

That a monster covered in bandages lived in the dark cupboard under the attic stairs.

I believed ~ or at least claimed to believe ~ that I had been born on the ferry between Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire because in my mind - or perhaps I wanted other people's minds to think - it accounted for my cognitive dissonance - as a 7 year old in his fifth primary school - regarding my combination of Irishness and Britishness, and northerness and southerness.

I thought women went for men with a good sense of humour.

@trev33 said
Is this the wondering or believing thread?

I refer you to the title for guidance, cognitive structure, contextual poise and if you like, the rule. However by post two it was clear to me that the implication of me shelving the title in the thread equivalent of DIY ‘speciality paints’ was going to limit the expression of contributors and I apologise for the inconvenience caused.

@rank-outsider said
I thought women went for men with a good sense of humour.

We do. 🙂

I believed the man who said he was a policeman who knew where we lived when he chased us off a building site. 😨

I believed in Superman.

I really did.

@rank-outsider said
I thought women went for men with a good sense of humour.

...and I believed "good sense of humour" was an absolute

I believed this lad who said he had a lego motor, but when we went round his house he said it was too big to bring out through the front door and show us!