When I was young, I heard the word "castrated" somewhere, which means to cut off one's penis. At the time, for some reason or another, I thought it meant to abandon something, like "abandon ship!" So, my younger brother and I were sledding one snowy winter evening, and we were headed for a tree... would you like to guess what I shouted?
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- When I was young I used to believe for some reason that being asthmatic meant you were born with no lungs.Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to believe that when winter came and it snowed the grass just died or went away for the winter.— Chris
- When I was 5 years old, I used to believe Poland was snowy and cold all year round, like the North Pole. — Sara