I used to think that you had a child's name and an adult's name, and although your parents chose your child's name, when you grew up you could choose a new grown-up name.

Min was gonna be Carol.

Anon

When I was little, I used to think that if you had twins, you had to name them the same name, and dress them in the same clothes.

Camille

I used to have really long hair, so when I finally decided to get in cut in 3rd grade, I was told that the girl that would cut my hair's name was Cindy. My mother had a horse named Cindy, and I pictured the horse in a cape behind me cutting my hair.

Anon

I used to believe that Walt Disney was "Walk Disney". I imagined him spending his entie day walking up and down the sidewalks of Disneyland.

Jessica Tinch

I am from the Washington D.C. area and when I was younger, the former Mayor, Marion Barry, was in the news quite a bit. For some reason, I didn't understand that he was just one person -- I thought it was really nice that they let a husband and wife team run the city - Mayors Mary and Barry! What is even more amusing is that my twin sister thought the exact same thing even though we never discussed it!

Leslie

I used to read about Lady Penelope and believe that her name was pronounced Penny-lope (lope as in antelope).

Anon

I used to think that your name was your destiny, so whatever your name meant, you had to become/witness. Once I knew a kid named Cayden, which means round or lumpy, and I told him that some day he would turn into a potato... I got in trouble for that!

Some one...

When I was three, I believed only one person in the world could have each name. Anytime anyone with the same name as me introduced themselves, I would scream "NO FAIR! NO FAIR! YOU STOLE MY NAME!"

Anon

i thought that a kid got its name when it was baptized. and that it was the priest who decided the name. i really thought that was what baptism was all about....getting your name..

Mary J

My brother thought that one adult was a dult and that one alert was a lert.

Anon

When I was little I thought my parents hated my older sister because her name is very weird. Her name is Zaidee so I told her that she had to do something really bad to have mom name you that. I was such a brat she and my oldest sister locked me in a closet and told me my first and middle name Kyle and Ryan are boys name because they wanted a boy and got me a girl. I think my parents want their kids made fun of.

Now afraid of closets -Kyle Ryan Gabour

I decided when I was in Kindergarden that my name would no longer be Molly, it would now be Dora. I made everyone call me Dora, and much to the frustration to my Kindergarden teacher, I didn't stop for several months.

Anon

When I was a kid there was a joke about people wanting or missing "Amanda Hugginkiss," which was supposed to sound like, "A man to hug and kiss." I did not understand this and kept wanting to know who this Amanda was.

Finally, one of my friends who had repeatedly tried to tell me that this was a joke when I asked her who this "Amanda" person was that everyone seemed to know but me, told me, "Look, never mind, she used to go to this school, okay?"
Years later, I figured it out.

Angelina

i never understood how/why each culture had such different types of names. i asked my mom how people come up with such unusual names for their children and she said each culture has their own technique....for example the chinese drop a frying pan on the ground and whatever sound it makes is the name of the child.

Anon

Both my brother and I used to think that T-Roy was the coolest name you could have. We used to fight over it constantly whenever we pretended to be someone else.

Josh

When I was younger I used to find it pretty surprising how my Dad could call my Grandad (his Father-in-law) names and get away with it.
I remember later telling Mum in the most concerned voice; "Mum! Dad called Grandad DICK!"
Later I found out this was due to his last name being Whittington and had something to do with the story of Dick Whittington and his cat.

Belinda

When I was born, my grandmother called me Laurie and everyone in the family followed suit. It was the name I always used, at school, at church, meeting new friends and so on. So when I got to first grade, the very first day, my teacher was doing roll call and mentioned a Lauren, but that wasn't my name, so I didn't answer. She gets to the end and I haven't uttered a peep, so she walks up to me and says, "you're Lauren." which couldn't be true because I'd never been called by that name before. I stood up and shouted at the top of my lungs, "My name is Laurie!"

Laurie

I used to believed that "R.I.P" on a gravestone meant that that person's name was Rip.

Silly kid

When I was little I used to believe that comedian Jerry Lewis and rocker Jerry Lee Lewis were the same person.

Paul

I used to believe that when you hit adulthood that you had to change your name to something like Betty or Anne, because little kids aren't called names like that.

Jill