Since my mother didn't change her last name when she got married, I didn't realize that other people did when I was five. There were two teachers at my elementary school who were married to each other, and so had the same last name. I thought this meant they were related to each other.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- I thought all teachers in school were married to each otherAnon
- I believed that when you got married (the wife) you didn't have to work. Boy, was I fooled. ha ha ha— Patty
- i used to believe nuns were married to jesus and priests were married to mary.— sunshine
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- When I was very young, I thought that God was married to Mother Nature, and that together they made weather.Anon
- I used to believe that God and Mother Nature were married.Anon