I heard of the movie The Godfather before knowing about what an actual godfather was, so when I heard a classmate in grade school talking about his godfather, I thought his family members were criminals.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- I was about 6 and thought my family invented the fart because I never heard anyone outside my family do it.— Bob
- When the police are talking about "rap sheets," I thought that the criminals were making rap music.Anon
- whenever i heard a melody, i thought it stuck in my stomach when i heard it in my mindAnon
- I used to think it was an amazing coincidence that all my members of my family had the same name.— Raj
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia