Whenever I couldn't read a word, I would just make up something in its place. So, whenever I would read to my mom or something, she would chuckle or something at my completely made up word.
A childhood belief about reading

others believed things like this
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I thought vegetarians couldn't read Chicken Soup for the Soul. — Aretia
- when my friend was little, she used to eat paper, thinking it would make her read better.— hehehe
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- When I was younger I thought I had made up the word "nipples" and "thinga-majigger" — Amelia
- I used to think that the word blurb was a noise that people made when being sick. Bluuuggghhh.— Natasha