At middle school, I was convinced that "destitute" meant a male prostitute.
After reading somewhere that "he was destitute...."
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.— Phil
- a friend was convinced that his school was an asylum, and couldn't be convinced otherwiseAnon
- I thought the word mailman was male man and it seemed dumb to me as aren't all men male?— andalite
- I used to believe that a prostitute was like a prosecutor.— Not As Innocent Anymore
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- Until I was about 11 or 12 I thought that "prostitute" referred to a female criminal.Anon