My brother thought that one adult was a dult and that one alert was a lert.
A childhood belief about names

others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I thought that grown-ups were adult.— Gloria
- I thought adultery was when you acted too much like an adult as a kid and wondered whats so bad about that?— Butch McFear
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon
- that when I grew to be an adult my parents would be children.— Rainbow
- when I was about six I remember asking an Adult what Mary did before she was a statue....Anon
- I used to think you had to be an adult to drink household chemicalsAnon