I used to call my granparents Omi and Opi, thinking that it was their real names. At the time I thought how cool that they met and their names rhymed, it wasn't until I was about 8 that I realised that Omi and Opi are grandma and grandpa in german.
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- I thought that since my grandpa and my dad's names are both David, than David Bowie must be my aunt's son.Anon
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon
- At the age of around five, I realized that my mum's and dad's names were not mum and dad!— yelloworpurple