names

As a young child (maybe around 8) in the 90's I had a teenage cousin named Tonya with frizzy blonde hair that lived in Oregon. I didn't know much about her other than that. From watching TV, I became convinced that my cousin was actually Tonya Harding, and that my family just never talked about it because they were too ashamed of her.

Marnie

when i was little, and knew nothing about the fashion industry, i believed that Gucci was another word for small

Anon

when i was younger we called our Grandmother "Grandma Hinkley" thinking that was her name but come to find out she lived in Hinckley , Minneasota.

kathy daniels

When I was like 3 or 4, I thought people were born with their name. For example, if you're name was Jenny, when you were born, you had a little sign around your neck with "Jenny" written on it! Don't ask me where I came up with this. I was a weird child.

Captain Weirdo

I used to believe that everyone who had the same name, looked alike. E.g. my father's name is Harold, so everyone named Harold looked exactly like my father...

Anon

I once thought of most names in the world, there were three people with that name, one who goes to school, one who doesn't go to school, and one who is an adult. But for rare names there was only one person with that name.

Anon

i used to believe that "bill stickers" was a wanted criminal in london as whenever i went, there were always signs up saying "bill stickers will be prosecuted"!!

lynsey

im from mexico therefore my english is not so good
well....
When i was a child i used to believe that my name was just for the time while i was a kid and by the time when i grew up i'd change my name

and i waste a lot of time, thinking about what name i should have when i grow up...

for example,,
my name is samantha and i used to believe it was a name for a little girl.. and my name for adult.. should be Elizabeth.. because for me..it was a name for an adult...
jejeje
i hope.. you understand some about what i wrote.
( im 19)

samantha ochoa cepeda.. de mty., mexico :P

When they said "Houston we have a problem" ... I didn't know they were talking about Houston, Texas, I thought Houston was a guy's name.

Nicole

I used to think that all people with the same FIRST name were related.

Lisa

I used to think that everybody had to change their name on their 21st birthday. I was going to change mine to Miss Violet

Erin

up untill i was about 5, i thought my mum and dads names were... mum and dad!!!

Leah Goodman

I used to think that when you became an adult (at about the age of 13) you had to change your name to an 'adult' name. This was because I had never met an adult with the same name as my kiddy friends, or vice-versa. It seemed very plausible.

I think this was made worse by asking my mum how old people were when they changed their names, and what adult name I would like to have. Misunderstanding me (she thought I didn't like my name and wanted to legally change it) she told me it could only happen when I was grown up.

Amy

My one son Conlan (who was four) was trying to get his twin brother, Torin's, attention one day by repeating his name over and over: "Torin, Torin, Torin, etc." When Torin ignored him, Conlan started shouting "Mister Torin, Mister Torin, etc." because that how you got your teacher's attention. I just laughed and said, "Conlan, it's just regular Torin." So then Conlan started to shout, "Reglar Torin, Reglar Torin, Reglar Torin!!!!!" (incorrect spelling intentional)

Ann Y.