I got word definitions mixed up a lot as a child. I remember mixing up "ancestors" and "maggots". I'd lift rocks in the yards and point at all the little white buggies and tell the neighbor kids they were my ancestors.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that copying definitions out of a book counted as plagiarism!Anon
- Remember the old Tubes song "White Punks on Dope". Thought they were singing "White Folks are Dumb"
— WailerMan - I used to believe the way they counted up votes was by counting the signs people used to put on their yards— Jaci Marshall
- I thought that gnats were baby flies, then one day I found out about maggots. yuck— Felicia
- I thought you could get toffee from mixing tea and coffee.Anon
- I used to think the word "european" had something to do with pee, and that kids weren't supposed to say it.Anon