I had known about sex since I was little, and I knew about pregnancy and having babies, but I never knew that the two were related! So when people would say that someone had been trying to have a baby for a long time, I thought that meant that they sat around and concentrated really hard on getting pregnant.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- I used to believe if I concentrated hard enough I could move stuff.
*sigh*
— Zog - I knew someone who thought condoms were so that the MEN wouldn't get pregnant!Anon
- I used to think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.— Sophie
- I thought that a woman got pregnant kind of like catching a cold, by being around her husband for a long time.— No Name
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic