family

Whan Iwas little my big Sister told me that My mom had an alternate family in California. Every day she would go to work she would drive to California.

Braden Showers

My older sister is 8 years older than me. So when I was little and she was a teenager, she started not wanting me to be in the bathroom when she was bathing, for privacy.
She had never wanted this before, and when I questioned her, to avoid the awkwardness of telling me she didn't want me seeing her naked, she told me she was an angel, and if I saw her in the bathtub I would see her wings, and God would be upset at her for revealing this secret.
She told me not to tell anybody. I thought for ages that she was an angel; I felt really special to have my sister be an angel and I thought that maybe when I got to be a teenager like her I would grow my wings and be an angel as well.

Ari

I spent a summer with my Granparents and we decided to drive up and visit my Aunt and Uncle for a few days. While riding in the car I was looking at my fingernails and asked my Uncle what the little white specks under my fingernails were. He told me that you get those from telling lies. So whenever I lied about something I used to hide my hands all the time. Still a bad habit to this day!!

Tom

My Grandad used to sit me on his knee to play the piano and sing along... when I was 18, and long after his death, I happened to mention Grandad's piano to my mum and auntie, who took off laughing... it was only then that I realised he never owned a piano; he'd been 'playing' the edge of the kitchen table all along...

Jen

Our grandmother, with the cooperation of all of our other relatives, fostered the belief in us that, if we were bad, we could be taken to "Jones's Home," a terrible kind of orphanage where we ould live out the rest of our childhoods in abusive misery and squalor.

Anon

I was totally convinced (and even tried to convince my lil' sister) that my parents were aliens and at night when we went to bed, they would come out of their human bodies.

Anne

I used to believe that my parents were actually aliens. I thought that they wanted to poison me, but since they wouldn't want to poison my little brother they couldn't. I was afraid to eat anything that my mom made just for me.

Laura

When i was 4 ,My brother and sister would go to my grandparent house in californa alone.Since i wasn't aloud on the plane by myself(but my brother and sister were old enough)My parent told me they were going to home work camp. I belived then till recently...
Also when we were at my Grandparents swimming pool my brother told me we came from a family of mermaids.When i told him i couldn't breath or see under water he said that wasnt smart enough to be a mermaid.He also said that i had to eat orange food things to become more of a mermaid.

Sasha.....

I used to believe my parents were speaking in a different language when they spoke to each other because I was too young to understand

Anon

when my brother was about 4 or 5 my aunt did something that got him angry, his response was to call her a name and he called her a DOG!! she said what did u call me, he realized what he said had gotten him in trouble by her tone of voice, so he immediately changed what he said i meant PUPPY PUPPY!! I guess he thought calling her a puppy was cute lol

Anon

When i was little, my older brother and dad told me i was adopted from monkeys. they kept telling me it, so eventually i thought it was true.

Anonymous

For many years of my childhood I believed that men couldn't sing. This was solely based on the fact that my dad is completely unable to carry a tune. I really don't know how I failed to notice that there were plenty of men on TV and radio who could sing well.

Anon

one time i was digging holes in the backyard with spoons with my uncle, who told me that he once dug a hole to china, which i believed until i was much older and my mother explained i'd been had

Anon

When I was five or six, one of my older cousins had his driver's liscence suspended. I thought this meant he forgot how to drive.

Anon

When I was little my grandma convinced me there was a guy who lives in their refrigerator who crushed their ice, I would drink anything their because my mommy told me germs were icky.

Chey

I used to believe that a person's ethnicity was determined by tiny creatures that lived in your blood. I was afraid that if I cut myself all of mine might swim out and I would never be allowed to find my birth family.

Anon

When I was a kid I thought that when people got married they would stay in their parent’s house and live in their room. I thought I was going to get married and have all my kids and I live in my childhood bedroom. I would play house all the time and tell them where I was going to put the crib.

Anon

when i was 4 i believed that all girls were left handed and all boys were right handed it made sense becoz my mum and my older sister and me where left handed and my dad and my older brother where right handed.

F.c

When I was a child, I used to think that one day my brother and I would be in the same grade at school.

Alexis Yahir López

When I was little I knew my grandparents, but I didn't know that grandparents meant my parents' parents. When my mom talked about her parents, I thought she was talking about other people I had never met.

Sylvia