I was about 10 years old and I used to belive that 'rape' was simply ripping peoples clothes. Imagine the shock for my teacher when for an exercise in English I wrote the sentence "The dog raped the postman". I thought I was being extremely clever.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I thought rape just meant someone tearing the clothes off of a woman's body.— Matt
- I thought that "statutory rape" were meant to rape a statue.Anon
- I thought that exorcise and exercise both meant the same thing— Dobby Bob
- I used to belive that my teacher was a alien unfortunately this was true mum and said. — peter
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- For some reason, I used to believe that women only got raped on train tracks.
— Jessica Tinch