I used to believe that My grandparents didn't have any other name except grandma and grandpa.

Emelia

When I was little I used to think I had to marry my sister, and have kids with her (that's how you find your spouse). Boy was I wrong.

Mop Mabbot

When I was a kid my mom and I would drive by nursing homes and I remember thinking that it was very sad that all the babies without moms had to go there to get "nursed".

Alaina McCullough

When I was little my mom and grandma used to say bad things about my aunt like that she was a back stabber and stuff well because they said this I was aways afraid she was going to kill me I wouldn't even eat the food she would make for me when I came to her house.

omg

Up until my mum taught me to write my name and her name, I thought she was called 'Darling' because that's what my my dad always called her.

Adele

when my sister was a toddler, my parents would jokingly tell her that her real father was the garbage man. one day when she was on the front porch with my mom, the garbage man(a large black man) was collecting trash and my sister held out of her arms and starting screaming "DaDa! DaDa!"

Ippy

I used to think that everyone's grandma had the same last name, like your dad's mom had this name and my friends grandma had the exact same name. So i went up, asked my best freind how his grandma (with my last name) was doing..he said he didnt have one. I told him how sad i was. He told me he had a grandma (his last name) i never made the connection of names....i just assumed she was a different age, hence my great-grandma having a different last name then all my others.

dudeman

I used to believe my dad was a terorist
because he had a long black beard and
brown eyes !

of course, he isn't !!!

laure French student in eighth grade

When I was about 3 or 4 my aunt brought my newborn cousin over to visit us for the first time. I exclaimed "Oh! She's can open her eyes!!!" I thought babies were like kittens and it took them a while to open their eyes after they were born.

Red

i had a twin brother that died on the swingset and i couldnt ask my mom cause shed cry and my dad would beat me... gotta love brothers and sisters

dn

My half-sister is 14 years older than me, so I was about 5 when she was expecting her first baby. Everyone was really excited about the baby, and so was I until I heard my mom say that when it was born she'd be a grandma. I cried because I thought that the moment the baby was born, my mom would suddenly get white hair and wrinkles and I wouldn't recognize her. Mom had quite a time trying to convince me that all grandmas don't have to be old!

Mandi

When I was about eight years old, my older cousin turned twenty. Because she was my only cousin living on her own at that time, I thought that she was now an adult, and couldn't be my cousin anymore. (I suppose I figured she'd become my aunt)

Kelsey

I used to believe I didn't have a grandpa. My mom explained that I did, that my "Papa Gerry" was my grandpa, he just didn't like being called grandpa. I didn't believe her until I asked Papa Gerry, and he said it was true!

H

I used to believe that Sheri Lewis from the show Lambchop was my Auntie Rose. the look so much a like!

Nirveli

When I was younger, my Pap used to tell me he was the President of the United States. I believed him, because his middle name was Lincoln, and also, he was my Pap, why couldn't he be? lol

Shelly

As children, when my sisters and I fought, someone would always end the argument by exclaiming that they were going to tell mommy on the others. This always ended with the others begging desperately for the first to not tell. I was cnvinced that 'telling' on a person was somehow a magic way to get what you wanted. One day, I got very mad at my mom for not giving me my way, so I triumphantly declared, "Mommy, I'm telling YOUR mommy on you!" Not only did I not get my way, I couldn't figure out why my mom wouldn't stop laughing.

Rose

I used to believe my Mum had lied that my father was dead. I believed he was hiding from us and would one day come back to surprise us. I could only hope...

uggs

A few years ago my younger sister tried to tell me that I was adopted. I pointed out that since she doesn't have a baby album and I do (with two little kids you don't have much time to put together the younger one's album), if either of us were adopted she was the one. She persisted though, so I got fed up with it after a while and told Mom that my sister was yanking my chain. Mom thought we were talking about the treefrog that Dad had just accidentally smashed in the front door (getting its innards everywhere), so she said, "It's true!" I started to cry until she said, "He had to clean the guts off the porch!"

That was when I was about eighteen. I'm twenty-one now. Pretty sad, eh?

Dragonfly

First I believed that my parents were brother and sister. Then I thought that my dad was also my mums dad.

Rainbow

It was rather cruel of my mother to lead me to believe that stepping on/in someone else's shadow would cause that person pain. Even today, I avoid doing this.

Nathan