i used to believe that when two people got married, they just invented their last name from whatever syllables sounded good to them. first names sounded normal to me; last names were so odd.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that India and Indonesia were right next to each other since their names sounded alikeAnon
- i used to think that when i turned 5 i would become a boy because 5 sounded like a boy age.Anon
- At the age of around five, I realized that my mum's and dad's names were not mum and dad!— yelloworpurple
- I used to think Monserrat sounded like monster rat.Anon
- I used to believe my parents names were mom and dad till i was 9— Sophiae
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon