A friend of mine used to think that when he was called an "Only Child" that people were calling him a "Lonely Child"
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- As a child I always wondered why I could see everyone else's face and not mine.— Amit
- As a child I used to think that everybody speaks the same language, mine.— Eva
- I used to think that adult kangaroos were called Kangas and that child kangaroos were called Roos. Anon
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- When I was child I used to believe that people who die become ghosts and could see youAnon
- When I was a child I used to believe that people died in order of age.— Silvia Spinetti