I thought that "losing your cool" meant you weren't cool anymore (as in weren't awesome) so I felt offended when my mother told me I'd lost my cool.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- One of my friends told me that when he was a kid he thought windmills were used to keep cows cool!— Julie
- when i was little, my dad told me that the moon is chasing me..quite cool~— lily
- When I was little, I used to love dinosaurs, and thought that they didnt poop because they were too cool....— Melanie
- I used to believe that we had winter to cool off the earth because it got too hot. Thanks, mom.— Jon
- I used to believe that the cool aid man was evil and he'd break through my wall and get me.— tammy
- I used to believe that you put the grated cheese on your pasta to make it cool off— R.M.