I used to think children had children's names and you would get a grown up name when you grew up. Or, i believed that grownups were born grownups and so they got their grown up names from the start. One or the other... i was always surprised when a woman had a name like lily of emma or jennifer. I would think, hey, she's got a child name, how strange.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that grown-ups were born "grown up" and that I would stay a little kid forever.— Still A Kid
- I thought grown ups were born grown ups.— mea
- that as I grew up, my parents would "grown down," then I would be the Mom and Mom would be my child.Anon
- I used to think that only grown ups were "people".Children to me were no people ,they were just children.— Minny
- I used to believe that some first names were specifically for children and some were specifically for adults.— Marco
- I used to believe that grown-ups were born grown up.— Juleen