i used to believe that cursive writing was a secret language that only grown-ups could understand.
A childhood belief about foreign languages

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when people wrote in cursive, they were writing in Spanish.— Ellen
- When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'. — Monty
- i thought grown ups read in a different language!Anon
- When I was young,I thought the lyrics "Secret Agent man" were actually "Secret Asian Man".— M.M.B.
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS
- Growing up, I thought that my family that spoke Yiddish were speaking in cursive.Anon