I used to think people spoke word balloons like in comic books, and adults' word balloons were in cursive handwriting.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I thought the stars in the sky at night, were the balloons people let go.— Lisa
- I used to let go all my balloons so my great grandma would get it in heaven— lissa
- i use to believe....that cement trucks carried balloons to the Bozo circus....lol— Laura
- Growing up, I thought that my family that spoke Yiddish were speaking in cursive.Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m