When I was about ten or eleven, I somehow mixed up the words "lesbian" and "leprosy." I used to be afraid of catching "lesbian" after that. One day I overheard my mom on the phone; she was talking about some woman she knew who was a lesbian, and I freaked out and started screaming at her to get away from me because I thought she'd picked up "lesbian" and I didn't want to catch the disease too!
Needless to say, I felt very silly when my mom explained my mistake.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- My brother once referred to the neighbor as a lesbian (she was Lebanese...)Anon
- I used to believe that all old people got the disease "OLD TIMERS DISEASE" Instead of alzheimers disease :D— MollyJohnson
- I used to think that Alzheimers disease was called Old Timers Disease.— Justin
- That Alzheimer's Disease was Old Timer's Disease.— Todd K
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- When I was nine, I thought two eleven-year-olds could get married.Anon