When I was about 5 years old I remember hearing the name "Pat Buchanan" on the news a lot, but it never occured to me that "Pat" could be a man's name. I always heard it (and still sometimes think of him as) "Patthew Cannon."
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- When i heard about Irish Bombers on the news during the 70s i used to think that planes were dropping bombs.— Moose
- When I was a teenager, I used to believe that someone's name-day occured as half-birthday.— Marcas
- I used to believe that sonic booms were huge explosions that only occured at the very tops of mountains.— Jessica Tinch
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- I couldn't understand why my grandmother wore an ear-grenade (hearing aid). It sounded very dangerous to meAnon