What do you remember from your childhood that you now realise you really misunderstood?

[Carryonrunning]

Was just chatting to a friend about this:

1. Hearing all the boys in class talking about how a girl’s tampon fell out in the classroom. Lived in fear of this for many years before I realised they meant it fell out of her bag, not her body!

2. Opening the door of a sauna with my cousin (which was right in the middle of the spa area, so not private) on holiday in a nice hotel and my uncle inside shouting at us to close the door. I cried for weeks thinking I’d inadvertently seen him naked (although I didn’t actually see anything). Couldn’t look at him for years without feeling sick before I was old enough to realise we were just letting the heat out and annoying the other people in there! No one was naked in mixed sauna in the very public pool area of a nice spa hotel full of people!

@JudgeJ that's cute. I bet that tickled your teacher.

At primary school, I attended a lunchtime group once a week where we did things like skipping, forward rolls, hopping, balancing, and so on, which I thought was rather fun. I learned years later that this was a remedial group for gross control! 😳

Gosh yes, seems absurd expecting a small child to process that. Thankfully our teacher refrained from going into the symbolism at all, or I think my eight-year-old brain would have combusted!

I went to a group like that too. I thought it was brilliant as I was no longer the worst. It didn't matter that I couldn't tell left from right because some of the other children couldn't tell backwards from forwards either. I remember the teacher telling us all to "jump left" and all of us jumping in different directions and crashing into each other. My dc do sensory circuits which I think is similar.

I'm told that when I was about 4 or 5, my Mum once said, ' I wonder where your Daddy is' and I suggested, 'Maybe a fox or a wolf ate him'.

When I was very young, I overheard an adult conversation about marriages being annulled. I thought that this meant that the government could just randomly send people to a couple's house and tell them 'Your marriage is null; one of you must get out!' I was scared that they might do this to my parents.