my mom's from norway (im in the us) and naturally i was so used to any accent she mightve had that i refused to believe she actually did have one when someone told me. only when i went off to boarding school and came home a few months later did i actually notice it for the first time, and stopped being pissed at my jerk friend who i thought was making stuff up.
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that boarding school was where people went to play board games.Anon
- My friend's mom told my friend's little sister thatI when a dog died, it went to a retirement home.— ellen
- I just to think that Norway was the capital of the world— Elin Norway
- I am from Norway, and when i was a kid I used to believe thet gay people talked swedish!— Norway-Girl
- I was once told by a friend at school that if you sneeze you actually die for a split second.— Alex
- I used to think I was a vampire, and that my parents were trying to kill me by making me go to school. — Max