When I was around 10 or 11 a letter in Ann Landers column used the word homosexual. The only other word I could think of was homocide, which to me meant killing someone on purpose. For a long time I thought a homosexual was someone who acted sexy on purpose.
A childhood belief about sex

others believed things like this
- When people wrote GSOH in a personal ad, I thought it meant "gay, straight or homosexual".— Mat
- i used to believe that homosexual meant that you did it with stuff in the home— kristin
- until I was thirteen I used to believe that "homocide" was two homosexuals killing eachother. Anon
- I used to believe that a homosexual is a man who doesn't have erection. — paatrik
- I asked my mother what a 'homosexual' was when I was 11. She said it was when men danced together.— Nick Tucker
- I used to belive that homo milk was from gay (homosexual) cows— Drunky Munky