When I was little, I thought Lena Horne was my grandmother's sister because they looked similar. I also thought my great-grandfather was Jackie Wilson because he looked EXACTLY like him. I assumed my family never told us who he really was because they didn't want us kids to think he was really popular and had money.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- My mum's aunt gave her daughter a copy of Jackie magazine. She refused to read it as her name was not Jackie.— Helen
- When I was little I used to believe that God looked like the Great Gazoo (the alien from "The Flintstones").— Susan
- My mom said she had eyes in the back of her head. I looked and looked, but never found them.Anon
- My great-grandfather firmly believed, and had me convinced, that SPAM was mouse meat. — texasblue
- Since he had fought in WWII, I naturally assumed my grandfather had killed Hitler himself.Anon