When I was about 8 or 9 I loved to read (I still do). My mom said that reading made you smarter so I always had this vision that after each book you read that your brain literally had these little tick marks showing how many books you've read. The more tick marks you have the smarter you are.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I thought that exclamation marks were actually "explanation marks", since they explain how you pronounce it.— superoid
- I used to think that I was smarter than adults. Now I know kids are smarter than adults in many ways— Marshall M
- The Beatles song "Ticket to Ride" always came out "She's got a tick in her eye."— Kurt
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy
- When ever someone said ''read aloud'' I assumed aloud was the title of a book. Lol.— Delaney