when i was younger i used to believe that when people wanted to have a baby, they simply went to the hospital and purchased one. i thought that all the parents looking at their children from behind the window at the nursery were prospective buyers.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- My five-year-old cousin thinks that his parents purchased him from Wal-Mart.Anon
- When I was 4, I thought you chose and bought your baby at the hospital. I believed this until I was 6.Anon
- I used to believe that after 9 months, mothers went to the hospital to buy a baby off the doctors.Anon
- I believed (thanks to my mum) that babies grew on "baby trees" and simply 'fell off' when they were ripe!!!— Stace
- I used to think that only grown ups were "people".Children to me were no people ,they were just children.— Minny
- That unicorns were real. They simply had invisible horns that only people with special eyes could see
— Katie