When I was younger, I overheard my older sister and a friend call a girl a lesbian. Being a curious seven year old, I naturely asked what a lesbian was. My sister's friend told me straight-faced that a lesbian was a short person.
The next week at soccer practice, I got into a little spat with a boy on my team. He was much shorter than me, so I called him lesbian. He looked at me very surprised, then ran to our coach yelling that I had said a curse word! My mother had to explain the real meaning to me after that.
A childhood belief about sex
others believed things like this
- My brother once referred to the neighbor as a lesbian (she was Lebanese...)Anon
- I used to think you could be gay or lesbian from kissing your own family members of the same gender.Anon
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- My friend's mom told my friend's little sister thatI when a dog died, it went to a retirement home.— ellen
- My sister's friend thought cats were just small dogs when she was younger.— Richard Davies
- My sister thought (not more than one year ago, she is now 14) that John Doe was an actual person.— Brother to Natascha