growing up near the mexican border my mom was used to not being understood by spanish-speaking kids so she thought they wouldn't understand any noises she made; burping, farting ect.
A childhood belief about farting

others believed things like this
- Growing up, I thought that my family that spoke Yiddish were speaking in cursive.Anon
- I used to believe Mexican food was made from real Mexicans!— Holly W.
- I used to believe that people who were speaking foreighn languages were just speaking gibberish.— Zoe
- I thought farting was magical wind, and if you did it loud and hard, you would be able to move yourself.— Blake
- I used to believe that Spanish and Italian were the same language;Spanish was for boys and Italian for girlsAnon
- Like most kids growing up, I believed there was an upside-down word on the other side of the mirror.— Taylor (14)