I used to believe that our "voiceboxes" came with a finite number of words twe could speak in our lifetime, so I believed it wase wise to conserve words lest one become mute after middle age.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.Anon
- I used to believe that we had a finite amount of skin and that I would eventually run out due to pealing.Anon
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- My mom used to say that if I said bad words, poop would appear in my mouth— Nina
- I thought "prison" and "prism" are the same words as each other.Anon
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M.