When I was about 8 years old, I overheard my family talking about the increase in numbers of Lebanese immigrating to South Africa. Somewhere along the line I also hear the word Lesbian.
Not knowing the meaning of either word, I told classmates at school that one of my older brother's friends (a man) was a Lesbian. Got into real trouble at home when the school queried my conversation.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- My brother once referred to the neighbor as a lesbian (she was Lebanese...)Anon
- My brother used to believe that when we went to school dogs went to dog school to learn to speak and read— Matt
- I used to think that if I was home sick that no one else could go to school either. (it was MY school)— kirk
- 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 think the word "friendship" meant a special kind of rocketship that you went on with your friends.— chips ahoy!
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m