For a brief period of about one month i believed the more u talked the shorter your life would be and that if you answered questions with as few words as possible you'd live longer!
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- My sister believed that october was the 10th month!— Sally
- I convinced my sister that chocolate milk was made out of Keebler cookie elves, she believed me for a month— Rainbow Steel
- When you ordered small fries they were just shorterAnon
- Airplanes got places faster because it was actually a shorter distance up there.Anon
- every one lived until they were 100 and then they died no questions asked— sext4eva