Before i had learned how to read and write, I thought that the grown-ups weren't actually writing (i mean handwriting), they were just fooling around and scribbling weird stuff on paper. Therefore, I was convinced that I could "write" as well, so ever time I got my hands on a pen and a piece of paper(including newspapers, books etc.) I just scribbled it to death. That drove my grandparents crazy, especially since I ruined a few rare and expensive books.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I could NOT understand why, if a pen worked on paper, it couldn't also write in thin air.— Can you guess what it is yet?
- I thought that the women who drove the bookmobile actually wrote all of the books on the shelves.— Dan
- 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 fax machines instantly teleported a piece of paper to who ever you wanted. Anon
- when my friend was little, she used to eat paper, thinking it would make her read better.— hehehe
- I was convinced that paper could only be made out of Birch trees (because they had white bark).Anon