I used to associate words with mental images...I had many, but the only one I can remember to this day was the word "Friday" conjured up an image of the king of spades.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- i used to associate the word appetite with apples, if you ate apples, you had an appetite. — elly
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - I used to believe that the words Angliphile and Francophile were related to the word paedophiles.Anon
- i used to believe that every friday night Freddy Kruger was under my bed and he was going to kill me— c
- i used to believe when someone died their image on photo's would disappear— beryl's girl
- when i was a kid, i used to believe i was actually a king who was in a coma dreaming about being a kid.— r