I was a very quiet child. That's because I believed I would wear out my vocal cords whenever I talked and I had to save them for when I was older.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the more you talked, the sooner you would die. Needless to say, I was a quiet kid.— Lisa
- One kid I know believed that because I wear glasses, it wouldn't hurt if he poked my eye.Anon
- I used to think that 'Child Locking' only worked on children and that older people could still open the door.— Anonymous Whistleblower
- I know my dog, Palmer, spoke English, he was just really quiet.
— Klayne P. - I used to believe when there was a tsunami I could to put myself in a pool to save meAnon
- i used 2 beleive i wuz an alien that had to save the world from "bad guys"— me not u