I've been deaf all my life. When I was little, I used to feel sorry for people who couldn't speak sign language and had to communicate by moving their mouths into funny shapes. I thought there was something wrong with their hands.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to think that singers couldn't talk-they could only communicate by singing.Anon
- I used to believe, that I am able to speak every foreign language only by learning "their" alphabet.— matej
- I would speak in gidderish, convinced that it was some foreign language I had never heard of— Molly
- I used to believe that my dog could speak English, but he just didn't feel like it.— Mariah
- When I was little ,I used to believe that deaf people didn't have ears.— rainbow
- When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun— Helen