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When I was three I wanted to be a giraffe when I grew up ('cause they are big)...Unsurprisingly it never happened.
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When I was 4 or 5 i used to think that girls started out as boys and boys started out as girls.
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When I was little and my mum and dad went out they would always say they were going to see a man about a dog - I upset every time because we never ever got a dog and I wanted one so badly.
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When my daughter was young, she thought that she would need to look in the phone book to find a husband to be sure that they both had the same last name.
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On one of my earliest birthdays, my grandmother (who was at the time receiving therapy for dementia) presented me with a beautiful doll. A little confused, she said "I think you should call your dolly 'Therapy'." I agreed, and carried the doll everywhere for years. It wasn't until I was in my late teens that I realised 'Therapy' wasn't actually a girls name...
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When I was a little girl my grandad used to say 'I was a little girl when I was your age.' I believed him for years and was quite disappointed when my Mum told me it was not true. I wanted to grow a beard!
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Until my little sister was about 10, she thought that if a black person and a white person had a baby, the baby would be asian.
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One childhood friend of mine was really rich and they had a maid. One day she told me that her mom had fired the maid. In my mind I imagined the mom firing a gun at the maid and killing her. I was horrified and reported it to my mom, but she just laughed at me.
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I used to believe that grown-ups were born "grown up" and that I would stay a little kid forever.
I thought that when you grew up you changed your name. Carl sounded like a kid's name, so when I was older I thought you chose a more grown-up name like Frank, or Bob or something.
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At the age of around five, I realized that my mum's and dad's names were not mum and dad!
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When I was about 5 my mother had an evening job packing biscuits at Peek Freans factory in South London. She told me one day that the supervisor used to come round regularly to tell the workers to whistle to make sure they weren't eating any of this biscuits. I believed her and told people the story for the next 20 years or so. Then she told me she'd been joking.
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When I was 10 my mom always talked about how much better than I was at my brother's age than he was. I thought parents got 1 good kid and 1 bad kid. Luckily, I was the good kid.
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Once when i was little my sister came home and started yelling angrily that some kid liked her. Tihs gave me the idea that it was bad to be liked so when i got a present i liked i wopuld enthusiasticlasyy say i dont like it and when saying goodnight to my mom i would say I hate you a an affectionate voice. this caused a lot of confusion.
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when my brother was about 4 or 5, we convinced him that we had found him in the trash can behind the circle k. we gave him full details of the day we found him but told him we loved him anyway. after about a year, he just "accepted the facts" and started telling people about the day we found him behind cirkle k, but that it was okay with him because we loved him anyway.
I once tred on my fathers wedding ring and was caought by my aunt who then said that I would now never get married becasue of it.
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When I was really little my parents went on holiday and my nan came to look after me. I'd never been around her without my parents around, and was worried because I thought she'd turn into some kind of wicked witch grandma, obviously some kind of amalgam from different fairy tales. The week leading up to it was torture. I'm glad to report we had a great time, although maybe it just seemed that way because I was so relieved not to have ended up in her cooking pot...
I used to believe my my Grandma was 30 when my dad was 35...lol.
I was probably about 6 when i was first told about blow jobs, but i thought it was a real job. Like a profession, and i just imagined a massive warehouse type factory thing where people got oral sex.
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When I was about 4, I thought everyone got pocket money (sorry if that's just a British term - it means 'allowance') from their parents all their lives. My teacher asked the class what we wanted to be when we grew up, and I said "The queen, because she gets a lot of pocket money".