In my neighborhood growing up, all the older people were refugees and they all had thick accents. I thought that when people got "old", they began to speak with accents.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people were born with accents.Anon
- when I was growing up I truly believed that my neighborhood was the only neighborhood with "THE CORNER"— Brid
- I used to believe that people on the T.V got into the T.V set to speak— Altair
- I used to believe that people on television speak to me & look at me ! — Macy
- When I was little I used to believe that dogs could speak and only did it when there were no people around— Lydiaakif
- I once thought people would keep growing until they were as big as buildings if they didn't go to the doctor. — Tufty