because i could never read my mum's handwriting, i used to think that adults had a different "grown-up" writing and that it was completely different to kids writing. i was worried that i couldn't understand it and spent ages drawings long squiggles on pieces of paper to see if they meant anything.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that cursive writing was a secret language that only grown-ups could understand.— nicole
- I used to believe that when people wrote in cursive, they were writing in Spanish.— Ellen
- When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'. — Monty
- I used to believe that you could create money (that you didn't previously have) by writing a check.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 used to think grown ups couldn't lie...especially not to kids.— Jessica