I thought that when people talked about skyscrapers they were referring to the jet airliners that I had always seen flying overhead leaving behind them white scrape marks on the sky. My brother corrected me one day when I pointed up and said, "Look, there goes a skyscraper." After he told me that it really meant a super tall building I thought that was absurd, because a tall building doesn't leave a scrape mark!
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the large building/skyscrapers that made smoke were "cloud machines"Anon
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex
- i used to think water towers were houses for really tall people. I thought they had big heads to.— Alyssa
- That everyone had the same amount of skin and that short people were fat and tall people were skinny.Anon
- When I was little i thought grandparents had to be hundreds of meters tall... Anon
- When my daughter was 3, she saw a cat using a litter box. She thought it was building a sand castle.— Debbie the Bad Swimmer