I used to believe there was a limited amount of words you could speak in your whole life, and when you used them all up, you could never talk again. I used to say everything in the shortest amount of words possible, and even ignore stupid questions so I could save words for when I was older.
A childhood belief about i'm different
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.Anon
- My mom used to say that if I said bad words, poop would appear in my mouth— Nina
- I thought "prison" and "prism" are the same words as each other.Anon
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - When i was in kindergarten, i used to think that i invented the words million and billion— Comonsnadama
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon