When I was around five or six years old I discovered that putting my private parts near the place in the pool where water came out felt really good. I didn't understand it. I somehow thought that I was refilling my bladder. One day, I had been doing that for a while when my Mom asked what I was doing. I said "nothing." My mom then whispered something to her friend. It was not until about 6 years later that I discovered that what I had been doing was called "masturbation." I then remembered that incident and was horrified to know that I had been masturbating in public and that my mother and her friend knew about it.
A childhood belief about swimming pools

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I wondered why they called it "public hair" when it was so private.Anon
- When I was a child, I used to believe that armpits were private parts— Duda Gueiros
- When I was 5, I argued with a friend because I thought I never have been 3 years oldAnon
- My Mother used to tell me only the good die young and I would live to be 100+ years old because I was bad.— William
- When I was around seven years-old, my friend and I put a rock in a microwave and thought it would melt.— Lars
- I used to believe my middle name was and. At age 12, I discovered that it was actually "ann".Anon