In first grade during a history class, I could not pronounce Virgina and West Virgina correctly. Instead I pronounced the female body part that begins with a V.
Most of us were ignorant of the word, but there were two kids in the class who actually knew what it meant, and couldn't resist giggling. My teacher corrected me, but a minute later I would mispronounce it again.
I went home and told my older that kids laughed at me when I was reading outloud during our history lessons. After some deciphering, my cousin told me what it meant. That moment of awareness was the most humiliating moment of my life.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- When I was a young boy I thought when we cried or when we laughed we won or we lost one minute of our life. — loulou83
- ‘Unadulterated’ meant that something wasn’t rated 18+ and was therefore safe for kids— Evie
- My mom thought "euthenasia" meant Asian kids.(youth in Asia)— Ibelievedher!
- I used to believe that the Chinese boy in my kindergarten class flew from China every day to get to class.— Debi
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.— Phil