i was on a ferry with my family and i saw something in the water. i asked my mom what it was and she said "they're buoys" (she pronounced it 'boys') to which i replied "if they're boys, where's all the girls??!!"
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I actually asked my mother if mixing girls' poop and boys' poop would cause an explosion.— kraine
- I thought that the difference between girls and boys was that girls have teeth.
Anon - I never knew why boys had to lift up the toilet seat...until my friend told me that boys had bad aim.Anon
- I used to believe the Beastie Boys were a boy band. Well, the name sounds similar to Backstreet Boys!Anon
- I used to believe that little boys grew up to be girls and little girls grew up to be boys. — Darin
- when I was a kid, I used to believe that only girls could be my friends and all other boys were my brothers.
— rajat