When I was in elementary school, I heard my mom comment on some very skinny aerobics instructor on TV, "I bet she's never had kids." I was baffled because it had never occured to me that you could NOT have kids! I believed that pregnancy was automatic, so that when a woman reached a sufficient age, a baby just started growing inside her all by itself. Then she'd have to find someone who would agree to be the baby's father and help her take care of it, if she didn't already have a husband or boyfriend handy. Yeah, I was a pretty mixed up kid, but it made perfect sense to me!
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- when i was 2 or 3 believed that i had lots of animals in my tummy it made sense my mum had baby in hers.— kjc
- Like most kids growing up, I believed there was an upside-down word on the other side of the mirror.— Taylor (14)
- When I was first told about intercourse, I didn't believe it. How could peeing inside a girl make a baby?— Art
- I didn't quite grasp the concept of time zones, and thought that Chinese kids went to school at night.— Giselle
- I used to think that if a black woman or man and a white woman or man had a baby, it would be Asian.Anon
- In primary school, a whole bunch of kids including me believed that watermelon seeds contained ants. — Caff