I used to believe that I was a boy, and I told anyone that asked that my name was Stephen Timothy James. Particularly embarrassing for my mother when someone told her that I would grow up to be a fine young man.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- My mother told me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would grow another one out the side of the first one.Anon
- i was told when i was young that if i swollowed gum my stomach would grow teeth to chew it— gammie
- My mother told me when I was young that thunder was from God bowling!— K.G.
- When I was young my mother told me that if I swallowed bubble gum, it would stick to my liver.— Barbie
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B