I thought the word "eerie" meant that someone had big ears. When my teacher told me that my Halloween costume made me look "eerie", I got quite offended!
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I once believed that if I wore my Halloween costume to bed, I'd wake up as the actual thing.— Sarah
- My dad told me "Hush Puppie" shoes were made from Basset Hound ears.— William
- my mum told me that it was prince charles who was in the Bungle costume on Rainbow.— lm
- I used to believe that "nuptial" was a naughty word. I thought it meant nipple. XD— Sara Hagen
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- i used to think that my dog was an old man in a dog costume— Kate