Until I got my kindergarden yearbook, I'd been convinced that teachers didn't have first names. Why else would you have to call them "Mrs." or "Mr."? Thank God that the yearbook listed the teachers' first names...
A childhood belief about teachers

others believed things like this
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon
- I used to believe that teachers built missiles when they went to the teachers lounge.— HOLLIS
- At the age of around five, I realized that my mum's and dad's names were not mum and dad!— yelloworpurple
- I used to believe my parents names were mom and dad till i was 9— Sophiae
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon
- When I was very young, I believed that my parents actual names were "mum" and "dad". — Margo