When I was about seven years old, I found out that the word 'bitch' was the name for a female dog.
Then one day, when I was playing outside with my big brother and his friends, one of them came up to me and said 'Sophie, do you know what a male dog is called?'
I said 'B***ard' and they all laughed at me and called me stupid.
I ran home crying and to this day I've not told my family what happened.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.— Phil
- i used to think that the word e-mail was a sex, like male, female and e-mail.
I'm so thick!— Confoozed - I believed that female teachers got to choose if they wanted to be called "mrs. or miss" — Jenna
- I thought the word mailman was male man and it seemed dumb to me as aren't all men male?— andalite
- I used to believe all cats were female and all dogs were male.— Sabby
- I used to think that all cats were female and all dogs were male. — Annalisa