When I was 7 I used to pick up one of my 'long' storybooks and start reading, then I'd sort of glance up to see who was around and I'd sneakily flip a huge chunk of the pages of the book. I would continue like this, reading little bits and skipping huge chunks until the book ended. I did it because I thought people would be impressed that I had finished the book so quickly. No one was.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- i thought that we were just a big story book that ended when we died— samantha
- I thought Kaa's name from The Jungle Book was spelled "Car" and that he had a brother named Truck.Anon
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I believed the book Babar was how my name was spelled.— Barbara
- I used to believe that copying definitions out of a book counted as plagiarism!Anon
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy