I thought a teacher's last name was their first name. Since my teacher's names were, Mrs. Zen, Mrs. Murry, and Mrs. Francis I thought their names were in fact, Zen, Murry, and Francis.
I concluded Mrs. Francis had the only normal parents.
A childhood belief about names

others believed things like this
- I used to think that Bill Murry and Tom Hanks were the same person.— Andy
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon
- I used to believe my parents names were mom and dad till i was 9— Sophiae
- When I was very young, I believed that my parents actual names were "mum" and "dad". — Margo
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer