When I was born, my parent's never gave me a middle name. When I asked my parents why, they'd tell me it was because we were poor and that it cost extra to have a middle name. Then when I was 15 and I met my (then) boyfriend's parents, they asked my what my middle name was. I explained to them that I didn't have one. They asked "why?" I told them it was because my parents couldn't afford one. They explained back to me that they thought that was very odd, because they didn't have much money when they had kids, and that they didn't have to pay extra for their kids' middle names. I had FINALLY figured out after all those years my parents had me fooled.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- Migets were people who were bad when they were kids and there parents didn't let them grow up.— Teresa
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer
- Ironically my parents were born on the same day; so growing up, I thought all parents had the same birthdays. Anon
- When I was 6 I used to believe my parents were watching me at school on TV. It explained a lot at the time!— opinionata
- When I was a kid I thought that when my parents were kids, the world was black and white and had no color...— KKM
- When my cousin was younger his name was Alexander and he thought his middle name was "ander"Anon