When I was younger I used to refer to cars as lawnmowers. Despite my parents constantly saying "c....a....r" I referred to the motor vehicle as the difficult, 3 syllabled word until I started school.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I used to think that testosterone was a brand of motor oil.— Grungi
- that DOT was a particularly popular brand of motor cycle helmet.— Gary Watrous
- When I was younger, about seven, I used to think that cars bent when they turned! :)— Brittany Serell
- when i was younger i used to think no-one was driving cars and it was only my family who were allowed to...— Lucie x
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- Right when I started school, I believed that you could get kicked out of school for chewing gum. — Rheeb