I knew there were gay and lesbians, but thought the gays wanted to pretend they were girls, and the lesbians wanted to pretend they were boys - so they had to look for each other to pair up. This was later reinforced when I saw the show Soap.
A childhood belief about sex

others believed things like this
- when i played pretend i always wanted to be the animal. i didnt want to b a person cause their boring lol— Melissa
- For my whole childhood, I thought that lesbians could only do handjobs.Anon
- When I was little, I used to think that Lesbians were people from some country called Lesbia.— Laurie
- If I pretend to sleep the ghost won't eat me
Anon - I used to think that apple juice was beer and I'd drink it all the time and pretend to be drunk.— Dee
- I thought that the difference between girls and boys was that girls have teeth.
Anon