My mother used to tell me that I was adopted from a band of gypsies. Where she came up with this or why I believed this for the first 12 years of my life I'll never know. But I can remember telling all my friends at school and loving it.
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- when I was 6, I believed I had to go to school for the rest of my life— Cody Jarosinski
- My little sister told all her friends that Clint Eastwood was the singer of the band Gorrilaz.. ^^;
— Saffy - When I was younger, my cousin used to try to convince me that I was adopted and I sometimes believed it."Anon
- I thought Aerosmith's 'Love in an Elevator' was 'Loving a man like Victor'.— Tracy Miller
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!— lv