I used to believe that if I spoke any sort of gibberish I'd actually be speaking some secret spell that would unleash bad things (monsters, plagues, death) upon the world.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people who were speaking foreighn languages were just speaking gibberish.— Zoe
- Growing up, I thought that my family that spoke Yiddish were speaking in cursive.Anon
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae
- I used to believe that everybody spoke English in the worldAnon
- I used to believe that the whole world spoke the same language- English.Anon
- I used to believe there was a secret door to the gremlin world hidden under my bed— Mel