At about 10 years old, I understood the concept of 'gay' people. I'd heard the word 'homosexual', and knew what it meant. However, I'd never encountered the word 'heterosexual' and thought it was another word for 'lesbian'. In school once, we were told that some of us might be homosexual and others heterosexual. I raised my hand and said: 'So, we'll all like people of the same gender?'
A childhood belief about sex
others believed things like this
- When people wrote GSOH in a personal ad, I thought it meant "gay, straight or homosexual".— Mat
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- i used to believe that homosexual meant that you did it with stuff in the home— kristin
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon
- I used to get mad when people used the word "native" because I thought they were making fun of my name!— Nate