My school district provided free vision and hearing tests for all elementary students. From kindergarten on, I had the idea that failing a test at school would be Really Bad. So when I took the eye test and couldn't see the chart, the nurse frowned and I thought I was going to get in trouble.
So I cheated by pretending not to know my letters and guessing until she said I was right. She must have thought I was a moron, but a moron who could see. Years later in junior high my mom finally figured out why I had headaches all the time, and it turned out I have 20/200 vision and needed glasses all along.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- Until junior high school, I thought Monty Python was a wrestler.— Jamie
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- I thought I had X-ray vision and could talk to animals and they could understand me.— Kitty Lover
- I thought that wars had to last four years... just like high school and college.— A. Falk
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- I thought pretending I was sick to stay home from school was called cookie not hookie.— Jen