When I was young, before I knew my ABC's, I didn't understand how it was possible to read without speaking the words out loud. I thought my Mom was being silly when she would read to herself because I believed she was just staring at the page and pretending that she was somehow absorting the content.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I BELIEVED THE TEACHERS COULD READ MY THOUGHTSAnon
- i thought grown ups read in a different language!Anon
- I used to believe that people who were speaking foreighn languages were just speaking gibberish.— Zoe
- After my dad read The Hobbit to us, when we were little, I thought that Gollum lived in the toilet. — PixelFish
- I legitmately thought that my mom wouldnt be able to read my diary if I wrote it pig latin!— Ashley
- I thought vegetarians couldn't read Chicken Soup for the Soul. — Aretia