I used to think that girls could only have girl names and boys could only have boy names. I'm a girl, so my name must have been a girl's name. It wasn't util recently that I remembered this belief and realized my name is a boys name.
A childhood belief about names

others believed things like this
- When I was a little girl, I believed that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys. :)— Mary Ellen
- When i was younger i believed that a cat was a girl and dogs were boys.Anon
- At the age of around five, I realized that my mum's and dad's names were not mum and dad!— yelloworpurple
- When I was younger, I saw Madonna's video for "Material Girl". I thought she was singing "I'm a Cheerio Girl"!— Greg
- I used to believe that the words to Michael Jacksons "Liberian Girl" were "librarian girl".— Paul
- That Madonna sang "I'm a cheerio girl" instead of material girl— HN