When I was in elementary school (I was about 9 or 10) I had the biggest crush on this boy in class. One day while playing in the room while my mom watched Cagney & Lacey, I heard the word "rape". I thought it was something a man did to a woman when he liked her...like kissing her. So a few days later when I was out playing with my girl friends I said, "I wish Matt S. would rape me. That would be so cool"....fortunately I was instantly bored with the word and never used it again.....years later I learned what it really meant and boy was I shocked and embarrassed.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I thought that "statutory rape" were meant to rape a statue.Anon
- When I was a kid I thought rape just meant someone tearing the clothes off of a woman's body.— Matt
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- when i was little i used to think that rape was where you used a rake to attack someone— terrordrone
- i used to think the word "friendship" meant a special kind of rocketship that you went on with your friends.— chips ahoy!