grown-ups: family

My mom's brother was adopted, but I'd never actually seen an adoption center. I used to believe that adoption centers were kind of like assembly lines, there would be only babies (that basically looked all alike) and the adopting parents would pick one as they were going by and into another room where other families would look at them. I believed it for a long time until I saw a movie about some kids getting adopted.

I used to believe I didn't have a grandpa. My mom explained that I did, that my "Papa Gerry" was my grandpa, he just didn't like being called grandpa. I didn't believe her until I asked Papa Gerry, and he said it was true!

I used to believe that after my mom had put me to bed at night she and the rest of my family would just up and leave never to be seen again. I could always hear them talking but I thought they had made a tape recording of their voices to trick me.

when i was little i used to beleive my uncle had majic powers as my mum used to call him a big fairy . now that i am a lot older i know realise thats not what it meant.

Up until I was about 15, my mom would insist that there was a such thing as the 'Mommy Rule Book'. She kept saying that (a few 'rules') we couldn't tickle her even if she tickled us because it was against the 'Mommy Rule Book', couldn't poke her, couldn't do anything to her because it was against it.

I only believed it for a few years but when I was 15, she finally admitted to it.

My sister and I always thought our grandparents, who are from the Netherlands, actually lived on the moon. Every time we saw the moon we would wave to them. We also thought after visiting, when they flew home, that is where they went. Very wierd...

I knew from a very early age that I was adopted, but my parents always treated it like it was no big deal. So, I assumed that everyone was adopted. When I got to kindergarten, I thought my best friend was a total freak because her mom and dad had given birth to her. Why would anyone keep their own kid??

when i was little i used to beleive that after i went to bed at night my entire family would gather around in the bathroom to have a meeting without me. during this meeting they would take off their people masks and reveal their alien selves. the ceiling would open up and their flying caucer would lower itself down to them.

I thought flying cows came and picked up my cousin by her hair in the early morning and they flew by our windows drinking coffee. I was a guillable(?) child.

When I was in first grade for show and tell I told that we had been to my grandma's house over the weekend. My teacher ask which grandma, mom or dads, I answered, "She's both their mother."

I really thought that she was because both Mom and Dad called her "mom." My mother's mom had died when they were first married so my mom called her MIL "mom."

When I was four or five I asked my mom if I could have an older sister. She tried to explain that while I might get a younger brother or sister, I couldn't have an older one.

I sighed in exasperation and said "I guess I'll just have to get a maid."

It turned out I thought that if I had an older sister, she'd have to pick up all the toys!

When I would get hurt, or get a splinter in my finger my mom would tell me that my dad used to be a doctor so he knew how to help me without hurting me. I seriously thought my dad used to be a doctor, and I would only let them help me after they told me that.

This isn't one from my but from my daughter who's now 12.
6years ago i gave birth to a son. he was premature and had to be kept in an incubator for a few weeks. one day my husband brought in my six year old daughter to see him. she then went home and told everyone at school " my Mummy's put my brother Ben in a greenhouse to help him grow."
bless.

My mother told me when I was little that they had forgotten to pay the bill at the hospital and if I made too much noise the hospital bill collectors would come and reposess me.

I have LOTS of cousins: 12 on my mum's side and 16 on my dad's, so I thought that cousins were a sort of electorial thing, a bit like adoption. I thought if you said it enough, someone would become your cousin, so for about 2 years my friend and I told everyone we were cousins to try and make it so. We had documents and everything.

My parents had some friends who were childless, and once they told me that I was going to spend the night with them, I became terrified that they would like me too much and never give me back. My parents and the friends laughed, but I didn't believe them.