One time I got in trouble for picking up a phone without asking at my grandmother's house. She yelled at me and said," You need to ask for permission before playing with things!"
I had no idea what "permission" was. I figured that it was some kind of lotion. I thought ," Why would I need lotion to play with something?"
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I used to think people were made of dirt and mayonnaise. I kind of rememeber picking this up at church.— julia
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- i thought that we were all toys in a dolls house and giants playing with us was why we did what we did— Sarah
- I used to wonder what kind of insect "uncles" were named after.
I had "Ants" figured out.— Kimberly in AZ - I thought that "Doube Bubble Toil and Trouble" was "Doube Bubble, Toilet Trouble" Anon
- Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone— Jenny