When I was growing up, I always wanted a German Shepard dog. My Mother told me we couldn 't have one because no one in our family spoke German so the dog wouldn't be able to understand us, and we wouldn't know when he was hungry or had to go outside...
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori
- Growing up, I thought that my family that spoke Yiddish were speaking in cursive.Anon
- When people would ask me what was my background, I would tell them 1/2 German and 1/2 Brooklyn!— Randy
- I used to think it was illegal to speak German in Germany because of World War Two.— Anonymous
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon
- My mother told me when i was 5 that Santa wouldn't come if i kept sucking my thumb. — Traumatized