When I was very young I believed that,like a record,everyone only had a fixed amount of verbal communication and would no longer be able to speak.Thats why Im typing this.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I used to believe you could edit a webpage in IE by highlighting and typing in the new text.Anon
- When my sister told one of my brothers her e-mail address, he thought to spell out “at” instead of typing “@”.— EJ - no longer computer illiterate!
- I used to think a world record was a record of all the people in the world singing .— JACK REGAN . [SWEENEY . ]
- I used to believe that you could only play a record once, and after that all the sound was wiped off.Anon
- I used to believe that if you played a record too many times it would wear it out.— April
- I used to believe that records were the power source for record players.— bob