I thought "please print" in magazine subscription forms meant you had to put your name with a printer instead of writing it without cursive!
A childhood belief about reading

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when people wrote in cursive, they were writing in Spanish.— Ellen
- When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'. — Monty
- i used to believe that cursive writing was a secret language that only grown-ups could understand.— nicole
- Growing up, I thought that my family that spoke Yiddish were speaking in cursive.Anon
- I used to believe that Internet banking printed money out of the printer in our home like an ATM. Anon
- Because of MAD Magazine, I believed that Elvis died while on the john, with a tub of KFC in his lap.Anon