When I was about 5 or 6, I would always wear bike shorts when I wore skirts, because I get paranoid about things pretty easily. Well, I also liked to use big words (to which I rarely knew the definition of) to make me sound smart. I'd recently heard the word 'obsessed,' but didn't know what it meant. One night, my babysitter came over. She noted the biker shorts I had on, to which I replied "Well, I'm obsessed with people seeing my underwear." She just sat there and stared...
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people who wore glasses were very smart.— Anonymous
- my husband believed, until recently, that the word "several" meant seven of something. — sheryl
- I used to think that if I stared at the sun for a long time, I could make day turn to night.— Big J
- I USED TO BELIEVE THAT IF YOU STARED AT A PERSON, THEY COULD NOT TELL YOU WERE STARING AT THEM. PRETTY STUPIDAnon
- I didn't mind eating lambs brains when I was a kid because I thought it would make me smart.Anon
- When I first heard the words "flea market", I actually thought it meant "selling fleas".Anon