my older sister (10 years older) told me when I was little that you were only allowed so many words in your lifetime, and if I kept talking the way I was I would run out before I even started school. I guess I was so quiet for a couple days until my mom figured out I wasn't talking and asked me why. I was still worried about it so for the longest time I didn't speak unless I had to.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- That people older than me knew what they were talking about.— Mark
- My mum told my older brother that dogs weren't allowed in London.— Fiz
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela
- For many years I didn't understand why everyone was talking about the 'youth in Asia' (euthanasia).Anon
- I thought my grandad would get older, so I asked him 'What do you want to be when you're older?'.— Afterlife Dreamin'