when I was young, my parents would tell me and my elder brother that they bought us from a pair of gipsies that had too many children, unlike my younger brother who was royalty. having them say so all they time, I found myself believing it and had all those nightmares about my parents giving us back to the gipsies...!
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- One time my brother asked my mom why mosquitoes bite. She said it was because children are bad.— sue
- I used to believe my parents were brother and sister, and that everybody's parents were brother and sister.— Rachael
- First I believed that my parents were brother and sister. Then I thought that my dad was also my mums dad. — Rainbow
- My brother thought Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom, was in Hanson.Anon
- that when I grew to be an adult my parents would be children.— Rainbow
- i used to think only children whose parents don't want them anymore goes to childcare centre.— Long long ago