I was diagnosed with astigmatism when I was 2 and until I was 31, I thought I had A Stigmatism, not astigmatism. I thought the word was stigmatism. D'oh.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- Up until I was 10 or 11, I thought the word anonymous was 'annoymous'.Anon
- I thought all you had to do to speak Russian was add -ski to the end of every word!— nateski
- When I was little I saw the word "applause" and thought it said "applesauce"Anon
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - whenever the tv announcer said "brought to you", I thought it was one word - "brotue".Anon