When I was about four, I would talk all the time. My grandfather told me that we were all born with a fixed number of words and that I was using mine up too quickly. I was suitably terrified and believed that, in relative silence, for quite some time.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - i could swear eleventeen was a number for the longest time -- it still sounds pretty convincing.— erin
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- every time I see a shadow thats not mine I freak out because I think It's a vampire— Dalton Anderson
- I once told a friend of mine that if you held in a smelly burp, it'd turn into a fart. She believed me.Anon