Born in the USA in 1951, the Communist scare was in full swing when I was young. I was about four, I think, and the kid across the street was named 'Conrad.' I confused this with the word 'Comrade,' which was what the bad guys on TV called each other. I told my mother that the people across the street were Communists. "Oh!" she was sincerely interested, "why?" I told her that they called their son "Conrad." I'm sure my mother got a big laugh out of that one.
A childhood belief about politics
others believed things like this
- I heard a mother in the street tell her young son not to pick his nose...because his head would cave in. — Ruby
- I used to think that swing music was called that because you listened to it when playing on the swing set.Anon
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- When I was young, I believed that because my mother was born in New Mexico, that I was part Mexican.Anon
- My mother told me when I was young that thunder was from God bowling!— K.G.
- My mother's name was Anna. She was called "Annemor"(Duck mama). I was convinced I was a duckling.— Christine Norway