When I was about 9 or 10 I was very into reading the dictionary - my brother (5 years older) must have thought this was kind of geeky and asked me, very seriously, if I knew that the word 'gullible' wasn't in the dictionary - you can see what's coming next can't you?
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- My brother that is 6 years younger than me used to believe that in seven years he would be older than me.Anon
- My older brother once told me that Aussie shampoo was made from kangaroo pee. I avoided using it for years!— Annie
- I thought my grandad would get older, so I asked him 'What do you want to be when you're older?'.— Afterlife Dreamin'
- i used to think the word "friendship" meant a special kind of rocketship that you went on with your friends.— chips ahoy!
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren