When I was eight, some friends and I had convinced some girls that male genitalia were detachable, and that boys were required to keep their penii in their lockers throughout the school day. The girls were fascinated, and demanded to see them. We pleaded modesty and declined.
A childhood belief about rude bits

others believed things like this
- when I was a kid, I used to believe that only girls could be my friends and all other boys were my brothers.
— rajat - I thought that the difference between girls and boys was that girls have teeth.
Anon - I used to believe all babies came out as girls and later on in life some of those girls turned into boys — Tom
- When I was younder, I was convinced that all dogs were boys and all cats were girls.— Clare, Ireland
- I used to believe that boys, gave birth to boys and girls gave birth to girls. How i'm so wrong now.— Sarah
- I used to believe that little boys grew up to be girls and little girls grew up to be boys. — Darin