I thought that my parents didn't have names at all. I believed that we called them mom and dad because they didn't have real names to actually called them. I was so shocked when my mom was on the phone and said "Hi, my name is Theresa". I went up to her, tapped her on the shoulder and said "YOU have a name?!"
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- When I was very young, I believed that my parents actual names were "mum" and "dad". — Margo
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon
- I used to believe my parents names were mom and dad till i was 9— Sophiae
- I believed that the breed of dog called Boxer was called that because they could stand up and box.Anon
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer