Not wanting to discuss reproduction with me, my mother told me I was adopted from a band of gypsies. I believed her until I was 12 years old and she broke the news. I was kind of sad. I mean, come on, how many people do you know that are adopted by gypsies?
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- When I was younger, my cousin used to try to convince me that I was adopted and I sometimes believed it."Anon
- My brothers to piss me off sometimes told me I was adopted, and that I was the housekeeper's kid.— ricolarno
- My mum told me and my brother that we were adopted and that our real mothers were witches. Thanks mum.Anon
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- I used to believe that when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly
- When I was 6 or 7 years old, I absolutely believed that if a thermometer broke--the world would end. — Suzi