I used to believe that my dad knew everybody that you needed to know - and although I'm now 25, I'm still not convinced that he doesn't. He knows who to speak to to get - including a special price on concert tickets, a cheap (but excellent) photographer for my wedding, and all manner of cheap reliable tradesmen.

Anon

When I was younger and had been naughty, my parents used to pretend to phone the doctor and ask for him to take me away. Everytime I was naughty I used to think the doctor would come and take me away!!

traumatised by parents

i used to think that my sister was a genie and flew a magic carpet at night

Anon

When I saw my grand mother was very old I used to believe an Egyptian mummy!!!!

Eomer83

i used to believe that i was a twin.
i thought that my mom had gotten ride of my sister. my mom had told me that i had a strong heart beat and the doctor could hear my heart beat on both sides of her stomach.

rose

When I was little I thought that adult men didnt cry. I never saw my dad cry but I saw my brothers cry I never understood that.

Jenn

When I was really young I thought that aunts were aunts when they were young and became grandmas when they got older.

Ms. M.

Until I was about four years old, I believed that my older half-sister was actually my cousin. We shared the same father, but she lived with her mother several states away. All but one of my cousins at the time were older than me (none the same age), and we only saw them once every few months (or even years), the same frequency that we saw her. When she came for a visit that year, I said something about her being my cousin. My mother looks at me strange and goes, "No, sweetie, she's your sister." This confused me, because all of my little friends lived with their siblings in the same house, but my sister lived far away. My mother explained it to me, but I didn't become totally un-confused until it hit me later until the concept of divorce was explained further.

Amy

In my family we call our aunts auntie, but most of my friends just call them aunt. One of my sisters friends when introduced to my auntie clare thought her name was eclare and was named after the dessert because my sister called her auntie clare.

eclare

For several weeks, I thought my mother was a cactus. It caused recurring nightmares.

D.

when i got stung my mom would mix baking soda and water and put it on my sting and i thought that this was a magical solution that only my mom knew she couldnt even tell my dad cuz he never did it!

amber

I used to think that everyone got their clothes from hand-me-downs. I always got my brothers old clothes so I hadn't even been to a clothing store until I was about 9 years old.

Anon

i used to believe parents had to decide if they wanted boy children or girl children before they had any, because my mom had four sisters and my dad had a brother. i thought my parents broke the rules because i have both brothers and sisters.

Anon

My mother was raised in an orphanage, and my father had parents, so I thought all mothers came from orphanages. I was around ten when a friend told me about her mother being a little girl and NOT in an orphanage.

Anon

When my mom put us to bed, she would of course always say, "Good night." This phrase became equated in my mind with the word "goodbye," and so I naturally assumed that my mother left every night after putting us to bed. Who knows, maybe one time she had said something about going to the store after we were in bed, and I assumed that she always left the house. I was at least 6 before I realized this wasn't true.

The strangest part is that this never seemed to bother me!

Dan

When i was younger my family and i would often go to the movies. I was always facinated about the curtain walls and my parents told me that behind the curtains was a magical land. When you watched the movie the curtains lifted and you were in that land. Each cinemar had a different land behind the curtains. Even now if im sitting in the cinemar near the curtains i always have to look behind them to reasure myself its just a wall!

Tahlia. D

If a man wore his shirt out, I thought his wife was going to have a baby.

Anon

my brother once told me that i was adopted as a baby, i believed him for several years, and even now i still question things ;) just ive never bothered to get dna checks.

stevie

As the youngest of 4 I used to get quite worried when my said of my brothers and sister "they break up next week" ( meaning school hollidays of course ).

John

My Uncle's old school friend was Ringo Starr, everytime I was at my grans and the telephone rang he used to say it was "Ringo wanting to know if he was going out for a pint", only when I was older did I discover they went to different schools!!

Anon