When I was little, I used to think that your appearance was based on your name. Like, for instance, all of the people named Sarah would look alike. I based this on the fact that my aunt, whose name was Barbara looked like Barbara on "One Day at a Time." My mom explained to me that Barbara was just a character's name and that the actress' real name was Valerie. I didn't really understand, but I then decided that I wished my parents had named me Valerie so that I would grow up to look like Valerie Bertinelli
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- We knew a woman named Barbara Hannah, and I thought she was was in charge of Hannah-Barbara!Anon
- I used to think that when a movie was 'based on a true story' it was happening for real then and there— Tom
- Based on that memorable scene from the "Wizard of Oz," I used to believe that people died from shrinking!— Julie
- i used to think that "the king and i" was a musical based around the life of priscilla presley— erin
- I used to believe that spaghetti grew on trees, based on a pasta commercial from the 70s.— Dianne
- when i was growing up i had two imaginary friends. One was named Jennifer, the other was named Onion.— Tessica