Somewhere along the line, my younger sister got it in her head that "kinky" meant "fun". She told my grandmother she liked the spiral slide at the playground because it was "kinky".
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- my sister when she was little thorght head lice tried to borrow into her head to get to her brainAnon
- I used to believe that a "punch line" meant a line of people waiting to dip punch from a punch bowl.— Sheila
- My 6 years younger sister used to tell me that I was younger than her. She was just growing backwards.— Taryn
- I used to think headquarters meant somebody's head cut into 4.Anon
- I used to think that being fired meant they set you on fire.
Or they just chopped off your head.Anon - I used to believe that if you drove over a banana peel the car would slide off the road.Anon