I was in graduate school before I realize I'd been circumcised. I always thought the glans (or head) was what got cut off, so since mine was still there, I thought I had escaped the knife. It was only when I took an anatomy-related class in grad school that I learned the truth (I comped out of undergrad biology). I am extremely intelligent and had most of my tuition paid by private and State scholarships and fellowships, but this one misconception persisted well into my adult life.
A childhood belief about rude bits
others believed things like this
- i thought getting circumcised was to get the head of the penis cut off— Dee
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- I used to think the Senior Center was where all the high school seniors got to hang out and cut class— Jordan
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.