I heard my mother comment to various people that it took her seven years before she had me. I stood my ground when my statement of "my mum was pregant for 7 years" was questioned by friends.
A childhood belief about reproduction

others believed things like this
- My Mother used to tell me only the good die young and I would live to be 100+ years old because I was bad.— William
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- My mother used to call my behind "a paw paw" and for many years I refused to eat paw paws (papayas)— Garth
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- When i was young,my mother told me that she picked me up from the park. i believed it for a few years— Jennifer~
- I used to believe once a man and a woman lay naked caressing each other, the woman would be pregant— oiman