When I was way too young to learn about sex, I got it into my mind that there was a possibility that I might have a baby (even though I was a boy). After repeatedly questioning my mother if I would be able to keep my baby, she told my father to explain...
Being too young to understand, I went for the longest time thinking I had germs on the end of my "manhood".
Needless to say, I paid special attention at cleaning it whenever I could.
A childhood belief about reproduction

others believed things like this
- For the longest time I was sure my cat could read my mind.Anon
- My mother told me when I was young that thunder was from God bowling!— K.G.
- When i was young,my mother told me that she picked me up from the park. i believed it for a few years— Jennifer~
- When I was young my mother told me that if I swallowed bubble gum, it would stick to my liver.— Barbie
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- I thought my neighbor breastfed her baby because they were too poor to afford baby bottles. Maybe they were!— Kristen