I was born in 1940, and was approaching age 5 when World War II ended. During the war, the Japanese were called "Japs." Naturally, when I discovered that we were also fighting the Germans, I made the leap and determined that "Germs" must be short for "German." For a while it made sense to me that the Germs were making people sick.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to think that germans had germs on them and that's why they were called that— Jessica
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori
- That germs came from Germany.— Alicia
- When i was younger i thought germs and bacteria were the same size as me— Tasha
- I used to believe that people born on leap year would only age once every 4 yearsAnon