As a child I wondered why my name was Dean, and how my parents (and I) knew it was Dean, and suspected that there might have been a great mixup and my real name was something else entirely.
This was long before I started getting teased for an uncommon name.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that firemen drove around in their fire trucks and started fires. I wondered why.— Albert
- As a child I always wondered why I could see everyone else's face and not mine.— Amit
- When I was a child I used to believe that movies and series were real.Anon
- When I was child I used to belive that the tooth fairy was real.Anon
- When I was a child, I believed that Stuart Little was real and I always wanted to have one. Anon
- When I was a child I used to believe that when I played video games my real world changed like the game. — J