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I used to believe…
When I was about ten or eleven, I somehow mixed up the words "lesbian" and "leprosy." I used to be afraid of catching "lesbian" after that. One day I overheard my mom on the phone; she was talking about some woman she knew who was a lesbian, and I freaked out and started screaming at her to get away from me because I thought she'd picked up "lesbian" and I didn't want to catch the disease too!
Needless to say, I felt very silly when my mom explained my mistake.
I used to believe fantasy books told real stories
I thought that "fool" and "What in the World?" and "crap" where ultra-vulgar words.
I used to think that Biss was a cuss word.
I used to believe…
when i was little, my mom, my little sister (6 yrs) and me were watching, "fiddler on the roof" in the part where it shows the army on horses, my little sister said, " mommy, are those the gay people?" i started laughing so hard, but my mom LIGHTLY slapped my leg, trying to hide her laughter. obviously, she didn't want to explain being gay to a 6 yr old, so she just said, " no" and went back to watching the moviee. :)
I used to believe…
When I was little, we had one of those potty-training books that tells the story of a little girl or boy that gets potty trained, gets their own potty, etc. The book's choice of words often confused me when I would read it because it used the word "urine" to refer to pee. I had never heard the word before, but I could tell that it referred to pee somehow. When my little sister asked me to read the book to her, she stopped me and asked what "urine" meant. I confidently told her that it was the Spanish word for pee. What a dope.
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Before I started kindergarten, I used to beleive that there were only 12 numbers, 1-12. I thought this because at the moment, my fave number was 12 :P lol. (I was also under the impression, "Save the best for last", so 12 was the last number). dont get me wrong, I was pretty smart, i knew all of my ABC's! (but i knew there were 26 letters of the alphabet...) my know-it-all cousin who was the same age as me, finally set me straight and told me that numbers went on forever! man, i was soo disapointed! :'(
I thought that people who couldn't hear were called "death" people and that was not a very nice name for them. They couldn't hear, but they certainly weren't dead!
I used to believe that, being American, all the people in the world who did not speak English actually understood the language, and just took the extra time to 'convert' it into their own language so that we could not understand what they were saying. I thought this up through first grade, while we occasionally learned Spanish during that time so that we could also disguise our conversations as well
I used to believe…
When I was about 8 years old my mom took me to the shoe store. I thought the woman who attended to us talked funny and I asked my mom why. My mom said it was because she had an accent. (She had a French accent). I missheard what she had said. I thought my mom said 'accident' and for years I thought people who talked funny had been in accidents!!
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I used to believe that bizarre was a swear word.
I used to believe…
Even though I am american, I used to believe that I spoke English and all my friends spoke "American." I don't really know why I thought this, maybe something my mom told me. I thought this in pre-school
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I thought the holiday was called "Merrychristmas" so I would tell people "happy merrychristmas"
I used to believe…
My sister used to think that "spit" was a bad word. She meant "shit".
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I used to be afraid that when I have a kid I won't be able to teach it how to speak English and it would just grow up never knowing how to speak.
I used to believe…
When i was little(2-3 yrs)i would hear my parents say "damn it!". i didn't think that made very much sense, because how could you 'damn' something? so i would say 'bam it!'. because at that age it made sense to 'bam' something.
I used to believe…
When I was little my parents would take me and my brother to disneyland which is the place I learned that there are a lot of different languages by listining to people in lines waiting for rides. Me and my brother thought that we could talk to each other and would fool people that we were speaking another language. It probably sounded like "jabba habbla blah bleep". We would nod along in our conversation and thought that every one else would be trying to figure out what we were saying the same way that we were trying to figure out what they were saying.
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I used to believe…
When i was little i used to think that when a foreign person spoke subtitles would appear, like in a foreign movie or something.
I am from Scotland and I was told that my country was Scotland so when I was reading about the English and that the English speak English I though English was a foreign lanuage I couldn't understand and I even imagined it sounding wierd! I wouldn't accept that I actually spoke English, how could I; I'm Scottish am I not?
I used to believe…
When I was about 10 I first came across this work "fuck" and had no idea what it meant, just that it had something to do with love. So, when we were doing a story in class in which a boy and girl meet, I told my friends afterwards, "I bet they'll fuck."...meaning, "I bet they'll fall in love and marry."
