I used to think "John Doe" was a real person. I asked my mom one time, "Do you think he minds getting talked about all the time?" Then she told me there was no such person!
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- I used to think that Lenin and John Lennon were the same person.— Melanjolly
- My sister thought (not more than one year ago, she is now 14) that John Doe was an actual person.— Brother to Natascha
- i used to think when my parents talked that "so and so" was actually a person.— karmely cullen
- As a kid every time I heard a person say "it's about time" I always replied "so what about it?"— Eli the Kid
- The first time I saw a black person (I was about 3), I thought he was made of chocolate.— Ronne
- I had a fear of seeing a person in the corner of the mirror(most of the time a morlock)— Shane