When I was around 8 I thought the word rape was rake and I wondered how you would rake someone.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- when i was little i used to think that rape was where you used a rake to attack someone— terrordrone
- I thought that "statutory rape" were meant to rape a statue.Anon
- When I was a kid I thought rape just meant someone tearing the clothes off of a woman's body.— Matt
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- I thought that every TV show was filed live, and I always wondered why they never messed up.— Steve