I'm not sure if this is quite in the right category, but before I learned cursive handwriting, I used to scribble on pages and pages of paper, making sure to put lots of loops in. I had to be ready for the third grade, and I wanted to be ahead of everyone else.
A childhood belief about spelling
others believed things like this
- When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'. — Monty
- Until I tried it in 3rd grade, my parents told me that if I ate paper my poop would come out in packages.— The Mailman
- I used to believe fax machines instantly teleported a piece of paper to who ever you wanted. Anon
- I used to believe that when people wrote in cursive, they were writing in Spanish.— Ellen
- i used to believe that cursive writing was a secret language that only grown-ups could understand.— nicole
- I learned in the first grade that the Sun was a star just like all the other stars, only it was MUCH bigger.— Geoff