I used to believe that you just 'got pregnant' you didnt have to actually do anything for it to happen. I also didn't understand about relatives and thought you had to choose what you wanted to be. Eg: you could only choose to be either an aunt, a mother, a cousin, a grandmother etc.
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- I believed that female teachers got to choose if they wanted to be called "mrs. or miss" — Jenna
- I used to think everyone in the world knew and thought in English, but choose to speak different languages. Anon
- i used to believe that if you died you could choose what you could be reincarnated as.— claire
- I couldn't understand why my grandmother wore an ear-grenade (hearing aid). It sounded very dangerous to meAnon
- I used to believe people really died in movies. I didnt understand they were just acting.— Justin
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela