When I was little I expected every word had an abbreviated version i.e. hamburger to burger, etc. I made my parents drop to the floor laughing when I was 7, asking them "Don't only old people live in condoms?" I thought I was talking about condominiums.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- when i was 5 i used to think that people only live for 10 years and i thought that my parents were 7.Anon
- I saw a spider on the floor and thought it was a baby tarantula. We don't even get tarantulas where I live.Anon
- I used to think that the word blurb was a noise that people made when being sick. Bluuuggghhh.— Natasha
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- i used to believe "eaves drop" was actually "ears drop"— sophie
- Used to wonder why a hamburger is called that if it doesn't have any ham...— Axecutioner