I am pretty autistic, so there wasn't much that I had trouble understanding, but I still used to think that the little black squares on circuit boards had glass in them (which isn't too far from the truth), and that the circuit boards themselves were made from some kind of cardboard.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- I'm autistic, and I used to believe taking some of my sister's food while she was eating it was sharing.Anon
- I used to believe that if i watched too much TV my pupils would take the shape of squares— Tilda
- I used to believe that CD's were made of glass, until I learnt otherwise.Anon
- i used to believe that if you watched TV for a long time, your eyes would turn into squares.Anon
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- When I was a child I used to belive that if I put on cardboard wings I could fly like a bird.Anon