Reading the newspaper one day I came across the word rape. I asked my father what it meant. He replied to me that it was a sort of a salt. His manner didn't invite further questions. It was not until many years later that I understood that he had said assault.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I thought that "statutory rape" were meant to rape a statue.Anon
- When I was a kid I thought rape just meant someone tearing the clothes off of a woman's body.— Matt
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- every one lived until they were 100 and then they died no questions asked— sext4eva
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny