I thought getting pregnant was completely random, and that the couple had no control in it whatsoever. So whenever I'd hear something about a couple trying to get pregnant, I'd think that they were stupid because it couldn't be done, and that I was a lot smarter than they were for realizing it.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant

others believed things like this
- that the word "couple" as in "a couple of items" was synonymous with "several", rather than "just two".— Blair A. Petterson
- I used to beleive that if you got married getting pregnant was just a random event. I was so scared of boys!— me
- I used to believe that when my stomach growled I was pregnant with kittens and I could hear them purring!— Angie
- I used to think once you got pregnant, you couldn't have sex at all during the 9 months.Anon
- i used to believe that only humans got pregnant by having sex. sheep just magically became pregnant.— Lucy
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon