When I was in 3rd grade I heard a girl run up to the teacher and said "Robert has a crush on Alisha!" So, I thought that Robert was literally crushing Alisha by sitting on her or laying on her. I was quite mad to think that he was "crushing" her!
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- as a kid [until age 7] I used to believed that the tv
reporters were literally sitting inside the tv! — nüel - A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso
- im grade 2, my teacher said that she was 2000 years old and i belived her— ---pepsi---
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- When a "mean girl" in early grade school asked me if I was a virgin I answered "no I am catholic."— Hilary
- when i was a little girl, i beleived that women didnt have bums, because i never heard my mom fart. Anon