In my grade 1 class there was a girl who needed speech lessons because of a lisp. One day I heard the term "voice box" and put together the idea that the doctor was shoving a shoe box down her throat, and it scared me. I asked her if she wanted one of my shoe boxes because my feet were small.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- when I was a kid I used to believe if I left the shoe facing the person would die— milena
- When I was a child I used to believe that if some shoe was upside down, someone in my family could die.— Camila C.
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- When a "mean girl" in early grade school asked me if I was a virgin I answered "no I am catholic."— Hilary
- I used to think you could go to jail just by saying a word wrong during a speech.Anon
- When I was a small girl, I used to believe black men had fallen into chocolate. — elodie, French student in eighth grade