I used to think that you had a child's name and an adult's name, and although your parents chose your child's name, when you grew up you could choose a new grown-up name.
Min was gonna be Carol.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- that as I grew up, my parents would "grown down," then I would be the Mom and Mom would be my child.Anon
- When I was a child, I thought that grown-ups were adult.— Gloria
- that when I grew to be an adult my parents would be children.— Rainbow
- When I was a child, I believed that grown-ups didn't lie.Anon
- When a grown-up is shown as a child, it was actually them, and the film took 20+ years to produceAnon
- I thought that my parents chose my cousins, and was upset when my mother wouldn't let me add one.Anon