When I was just getting ready to start kindergarten, my dad tried to teach me to write my name. He wrote "CRYSTAL" on a sheet of paper and told me those were the letters to my name. He didn't understand when I wrote"LCATRSY" (or something similar).
I thought the letters were MY letters (and no one elses) and I could use them in any order I wanted.
I wonder just how worried he was about me starting kindergarten.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- From the first six letters of this word, I thought that “megalomania” had something to do with megalodons.— Enrico
- I used to think "Zed" and "Zee" were two different letters.Anon
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- 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 legitmately thought that my mom wouldnt be able to read my diary if I wrote it pig latin!— Ashley