At age five I was told my mother had to go to the hospital to "lose weight". In reality, she went to the hospital, gave birth and placed the baby for adoption. I learned the truth at age twelve and finally at age forty, (a couple of years ago) was reunited with my "lost" sister.
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- When i was little i thought casualty was a big hospital in londonAnon
- when i was 4 i believed i could breathe under water, one day i decided to try it and woke up in the hospital!Anon
- Well into adulthood I thought that a local anesthetic meant one from the area near the hospital..— D'sparil
- i used to think that women gave birth to their husbands and marry them...— Pat
- When I was younger, I thought that Labour Day was when all sorts of women gave birth.— Greg
- When i was little i used to think that a birth mark was the place on the body where you came out of the mother— bipbop