As I was a quite chatty child (verbal-diarrohea) as my parents called it, I was told one day at about age six that you could only say 1000 words in your lifetime and then you wouldn't be able to talk anymore. I was fairly quiet for a short time after that!
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to believe my parents were superheroes, like the fairly oddparents!Anon
- I used to believe that if I spelled Norwegian words backwards, it would be English. I don't anymore...— Gudrun
- I used to believe that if I ate pieces of bread it would soak up my pee and I wouldn't have to pee anymore.— Anna
- I believed that numbers eventually just ended. That they stopped somewhere after 1000.— Jamis
- Since the girls name Jackie is short for Jacqueline, I thought the boys name Jack was short for JackalAnon
- i used to think only children whose parents don't want them anymore goes to childcare centre.— Long long ago