When I was about 8 yrs old, my cousins stayed the night at our house. Because all the other beds were full, two of my cousins and I would be in the hide-a-bed together. I was the oldest, and one of the younger cousins was a boy. After my parents went upstairs, I started to worry. Panicing, I ran after them. I was worried that I was going to get pregnant. I thought that when adults said "sleeping together" that they were being literal. I told them I thought that my cousins "tadpole thingys" would crawl across the bed and into me, causing me to have a baby. I can only imagine how hard it was for them to supress their laughter while giving a better explanation of the birds and the bees than they had previously given me. ("Tadpole thingys"-- really!!)
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- I used to think that your cousins are your cousins only until they're 21, then they become your aunt,or uncle!— AMILA
- I thought that my parents chose my cousins, and was upset when my mother wouldn't let me add one.Anon
- as a kid, i was told by my older cousins that i wasnt human until i turned 7 years old.— twk
- We used to beleive that a tadpole swam around in my mum and that was how I was born!— Brooke and Dena
- I used to think House Finches were baby birds and they'd later grow into Robins or something— Mica
- When I was younger I thought that when a woman was pregnant she would feed her baby through her belly button!— Hennie