What were some misconceptions you had about the world when you were a child?

[GaussLaw]

I didn't understand why poor people didn't just find a job/better job and earn more money, or why they were poor in the first place.

Unlike 47% of America (in 2012), you grew out of that.

[GaussLaw]

Our family was somehow "worse" than others because we didn't go to church on Sunday. 

That's not a misconception.  Churchgoing families are more involved in their communities generally. 

Being "involved" in my hometown invaraibly meant you were awful.

Only if you consider things like being involved in civic organizations, running for public office, or donating money to charity to be "awful". 

But clearly the Rotary Club is evil

Clearly, it symbolizes the patriarchal, white-supremacist classist notions upon which the evil empire of America was founded. 

/idiot