family

For a short time when I was younger, I don't know exactly how old but probably about six, I was absolutely convinced I had an uncle Frank. Now in actual fact I haven't, so when I went up to my mum and insisted that he existed, she was somewhat bemused...I think it was because I'd read a book which I liked very much, with a character in it who had an Uncle Frank. I obviously identified with this character and got wrapped up in the story so much I got it confused with reality!

Emma W

I used to believe (and still do somewhere deep down!) that I was born an identical twin and that my twin is out there somewhere. I even theorised that maybe i was a twin but that the twin died in early pregnancy!! It was such a strong feeling that even now at 18 i still feel it and i occasionally bug my mom to ask if she ever had my twin and never told me!! (her answer is always no but i dont always believer her depending on what kind of day ive had and how stubborn i want to be!!) Ive finally settled on the idea its cause im a gemini and that they say geminis go through life looking for the yin to their yang only to find it within themselves. ive had to settle with this to save me from the looney bin but who knows maybe my identical twin is out their somewhere...........

FunkyCherry

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.

Hilary

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!

Fly

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.

Jen, MI, USA

At the age of around five, I realized that my mum's and dad's names were not mum and dad!

yelloworpurple

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.

Meepers

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.

Danielle

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.

Anon

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...

Charlytune

I used to believe my my Grandma was 30 when my dad was 35...lol.

Bev

I used to beleive that my mother knew everything like the wizard of oz. My brother told me this wasn't so, but I din't believe him.

Caitriona

when i was little i used to call human beings human beans, and for some strange reason i thought they were evil and "baddies", and so whenever my sister told me that she was (or someone else was)a human being i used 2 break down into tears convinced that someone was gonna take her away (turns out i was the 1 who needed to be taken away :P)

bex

i used to believe that i was a twin.
i thought that my mom had gotten ride of my sister. my mom had told me that i had a strong heart beat and the doctor could hear my heart beat on both sides of her stomach.

rose

I used to believe my dad was a terorist
because he had a long black beard and
brown eyes !

of course, he isn't !!!

laure French student in eighth grade

I used to think that everyone's grandma had the same last name, like your dad's mom had this name and my friends grandma had the exact same name. So i went up, asked my best freind how his grandma (with my last name) was doing..he said he didnt have one. I told him how sad i was. He told me he had a grandma (his last name) i never made the connection of names....i just assumed she was a different age, hence my great-grandma having a different last name then all my others.

dudeman

When I saw my grand mother was very old I used to believe an Egyptian mummy!!!!

Eomer83

when my sister was a toddler, my parents would jokingly tell her that her real father was the garbage man. one day when she was on the front porch with my mom, the garbage man(a large black man) was collecting trash and my sister held out of her arms and starting screaming "DaDa! DaDa!"

Ippy