My cousin told me that "Gay" meant that you like boys, being 8 or 9 at the time i was like " oh, im totally gay" until i figured out about the sexual part....
A childhood belief about sex

others believed things like this
- I used to think a second cousin meant a cousin’s cousin.— Carlos Almonacid
- I never knew why boys had to lift up the toilet seat...until my friend told me that boys had bad aim.Anon
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey
- I totally believed my siblings when they told me the family was aliens and had a space ship in the garage.— cully
- In my second grade class everyone thought that sexual intercourse was "TALKING DIRRTY".— Israel Bliss