Until I was about 10 years old, I believed that if you were called "ingenious" it meant that you were smart--like an "injun"...
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that smart people were smart because they drank a lot of teaAnon
- At the age of four I believed I was soooo smart. I spoke TWO languages...English AND American!— Melinda
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- I believed that the breed of dog called Boxer was called that because they could stand up and box.Anon
- i used to think that i was smart— dumb kid
- I used to believe most people were smart!— Mexicrat