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I need to get this story off my chest. I feel really embarrassed whenever someone says 'kidney'.
>be me, 4th grader
>older cousin was staying over for reasons I forgot, but he got his homework and books with him
>my sis and I snuck out a biology textbook from his bag in the adorable attempt to be as smart as him
>we didn't understand much reading through the text so we flipped to see the illustrations and cute animal pictures
>eventually reach the reproductive chapter and see a diagram of a penis
>we actually said "ewwww it's a cut-up peepee xDD"
>noticed the egg-shaped circle on the bottom of the diagram and thought that it was a kidney
>decide to ask my science teacher about it the next day since we're going through the internal systems like digestive and whatnot
>...
>teacher concludes lesson about the basics of the respiratory system, digestive system, and urinary system and asks us to give him questions
>raise my hand
>"Yes anon?"
>>"Kidneys are inside our bodies, right Mr. Skinner?"
>"Yes, you are correct, anon."
>>"Then why do boys have their kidneys outside their bodies? Girls have them inside!"
>teacher just put his fist on his mouth and coughed hard because he was so taken back by the stupid question, must've choked on some spit
>"W-well, that's just how God created us, anon. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?"
>felt bummed I didn't get an actual answer and then forgot about that incident the next class
>fast forward to 6th grade where I had my first sex-ed class
>learn that testicles aren't kidneys
>remember that cringy question I asked two years ago
>felt super embarrassed and contemplated about having time travel powers to erase this mistake
My memory is kinda vague so I'm not entirely sure if this actually happened, but besides some boys in the class giving me the raised brow, I think some kid said: "Wait, those are kidneys?".
