When I was little, my father always used the word "gadget" to describe a penis. Imagine my surprise the first time I heard a grownup refer to some tool as being a "handy little gadget"!
A childhood belief about rude bits

others believed things like this
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- 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 believe that there was an actual point where I became a grownup.Anon
- I used to think that fart was a bad word and then i heard my mom say it once and I was so shocked.— Tara
- when i first heard the name "blow job",i thought the meaning of that word was blowing a snot out of your nose.— myuka