My parents had a lot of self-help, how-to, historical, and factual books when I was a kid. I used to think that authors didn't write stories for adults, and that when I grew up, I'd have to read boring stuff about gardening and wars.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I would one day have a dog, and I would teach him to speak, read, and even write!— Gretchen
- I used to believe that it was the Star Wars "Tri-ology" instead of the Stars Wars "trilogy".— keith Key
- I used to believe when adults grew up only 4' 9" or lower are still classified as kids.— Jorge
- I didn't know Reindeer existed, I thought they were just christmas animals for storiesAnon
- I used to think that world wars's were called war wars. So then World War II became War War II.— Maria
- That adults came into the world as adults and were never childrenAnon