names

when i was a child, i used to believe that all the parents were obliged to give to thir sons the names with the same initials just because my bro and me have the same initial.

Anon

At my preschool there was this girl named Ally. But my teacher had a bit of an accent, so I thought her name was Owie, which is what I called cuts, bruises, scrapes, etc. I could never figure out why her parents would name her that. Poor Owie.

Anon

When I was a child, I used to think that you couldn't touch a famous person, because one day i saw my favorite soccer player and i asked my mom if i could touch and speak with him, and my mom laughed and then she told me " yes you can".

Alexis

When I was three years old and had primary school in a few months,I believed I was the only boy named Ben,then I met another boy named Ben and this like blew my mind.So I was like what's your name?and he said Ben.And I said no,that's my name.So this went on for a while until I accepted I wasn't the only Ben.To this day were great friends

Ben Murphy

When I was little I thought everyone's relatives had the same names as mine so at preschool when a girl's uncle came to pick her up I said "Hey, your Scott's here!"

Errbody Has an Uncle Scott

One of my friends in elementary school thought that Osama bin Laden was "a son of Aladdin".

Anon

I thought that "Ratsputin" was an evil nerd who turned into a rat.

Mousputin

I found this site when I was just a kid myself. Lots of submissions ended in "-lol." I didn't know it stood for "laughing out loud," so I thought that Lol was a name. I thought, "Who is this lol person who keeps submitting so many beliefs?"

Kat

I used to think "Robin Hood and his merry men" was "Robin Hood and his *married* men."

Anon

I thought all names could be for boys and girls. I told someone I wanted to change my name to Vanessa and they tried to tell me it was girl's name but I didn't get it

Nate

I used to think that since Princess Diana was the Princess of Wales, that I could one day be Princess of Dolphins. This was during my Little Mermaid Phase...

Sandy Wu

I thought that when someone said that they were going to commit harakiri that they were going to then act like baseball broadcaster Harry Caray.

Robyn

One time my mom said she was going to visit Alabama and I thought Alabama was a person and not a state and she had a friend who's name was Alabama. I was about six at the time.

C.W.

I thought that Lenin and John Lennon were the same person because their names are pronounced egzactly the same!

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