When I was a kid, I always noticed that adults and children seemed to have different sorts of names, and it wasn't common for adults to have the same name as a kid. I thought that was because there were kid names and grown-up names, and everyone would receive a new name when they became an adult, so I always wondered what mine would be
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that some first names were specifically for children and some were specifically for adults.— Marco
- That adults came into the world as adults and were never childrenAnon
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon
- At the age of around five, I realized that my mum's and dad's names were not mum and dad!— yelloworpurple
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer