There's always lots of films on TV about children who are adopted but that only come to know the truth about their parents when they're 10-12 years old. So, because of such films, I actually spent my younger years fearing that I might be adopted - and what a shame that would be, because I really liked my "parents"!
I thought that, until I reached the age of 10, I could never be sure that they were my real parents, because they would always lie to me about it. They would think I was too young to understand the situation and that I could be traumatised, and so they wouldn't tell me the truth no matter how hard I asked!
Apparently, I wasn't adopted after all...
A childhood belief about i'm different
others believed things like this
- My mum told me and my brother that we were adopted and that our real mothers were witches. Thanks mum.Anon
- 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
- when i was 5 i used to think that people only live for 10 years and i thought that my parents were 7.Anon
- Ironically my parents were born on the same day; so growing up, I thought all parents had the same birthdays. Anon
- I thought an Automatic car drove itself, like Herbie in the Disney films— Stano