Sometimes when my parents were trying to get me out of bed or to get me to do something when I'd just been sitting around, they would say, "Up an' at 'em." For many years I heard this as "Up an' Adam." Adam was my older brother's name, so I thought my parents had made that expression up to tell me I should be more energetic like my brother. I didn't figure out what they were really saying till I was a teenager.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that in China, instead of Adam and Eve eating an apple? They believed it was a banana.— smartygirl
- My older brother once told me that Aussie shampoo was made from kangaroo pee. I avoided using it for years!— Annie
- First I believed that my parents were brother and sister. Then I thought that my dad was also my mums dad. — Rainbow
- I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook
- My brother told me that I would turn into a boy when I got older. It made me cry.— Sarah
- I used to believe my parents were brother and sister, and that everybody's parents were brother and sister.— Rachael