When I was young I assumed that 'yes' is always the positive response and 'no' always meant a negative response. So when someone would ask me "Do you mind if....blah blah?" I would get confused and instead of saying 'no' as in "no, i dont mind" I would say 'yes' as in what I thought to be "yes, i dont mind". I took me a while to pick up on why whoever was asking the question always looked at me as if I was a rude little brat.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- When I was in school i thought that teachers read scripts to say good moring blah blah blah— Corina
- "Going to the jazz club in my mind"? Not me! "Going to Nebraska in my mind..."— Felix
- When I was little I would always say in my mind, "I know you can read my mind", just in caseAnon
- I didn't mind eating lambs brains when I was a kid because I thought it would make me smart.Anon
- I used to believe...If you ate sunflower seeds you could read somebody's mind...LOLAnon
- I used to believe that I could change street lights with my mindAnon