Up until my mum taught me to write my name and her name, I thought she was called 'Darling' because that's what my my dad always called her.
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- I believed that the breed of dog called Boxer was called that because they could stand up and box.Anon
- I used to believe that people from Holland were called "Hollish", like people from Poland are called "Polish"— Sally
- I used to think that adult kangaroos were called Kangas and that child kangaroos were called Roos. Anon
- I used to think that because there was a state called Washington, there was also a state called Dryington.— Jasonchic
- Until I was about 16 I thought that Palestinians were actually called "Palaced Indians."Anon
- My friend thought butterfly was actually called a 'flutterby.'— BlutterBly?