Things you believed as a kid

[Arle Nadja]

I was never quite sure how babies were made. I suspected kissing, but I also thought babies grew in the stomach and therefore just kind of assumed they must be born from the butt. ...I was genuinely skeptical and offended when I learned the truth, and spent at least a year or so in hopeful denial.

I didn't think it was possible for girls to date other girls. Mind you, this is the same me who didn't understand babies and had no concept of boys beyond how they normally acted and how they looked with clothes on. The idea of dating another girl was so confusing for me that it took me until the age of 16 to open up to the idea. I'm gay. I blame the fact that I was never introduced to the concept in any form of media.

I didn't have a very strong seperation between fantasy and reality. I got very upset and cried when I couldn't find some characters I had gotten attached to in-game anymore.

For what feels like a year or two I thought I must be part boy because I was too short to be a girl. Then boys started hitting puberty and I was relieved. You know, because that would have been terrible. Now I'm just a dwarf. Much better.