Having found some books about sex when I was ten or so, I read the word "pubic" and mistook it for "public." Believe me, that was very confusing!
A childhood belief about rude bits
others believed things like this
- I used to think pubic hair was really called 'public hair' until I was about 15— Spe
- When I was little, I had tiny toes and beleived that ducks mistook them for kernels of corn and eat them.— Seguin
- As a small child I believed that the word was "nakeup", finally I found out that it was actually "makeup".— Hannnah P.
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon
- i used to believe that public houses were just houses were the public could go and liveAnon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny