True Confessions

Posted by danleone on December 6th, 2007 filed in funny

I was a senior in high school before I learned to spell Massachusetts correctly. By the way, I live in Massachusetts.

For my whole life I spelled it Massachusettes. Those were the days before spell check and I don’t know the last time I ever really needed to spell out the whole word before. It was always Mass. or MA.

There are other examples; as a child, I believed I had a SEVERELY narrow type of dyslexia. You see, every single time I read the word “pigeon,” my mind’s eye reads this as “pig one.” For years, I did not even know what a pig one was. Luckily, there are not many pigeon-centric children’s books out there.  But I literally read this as PIG ONE…two separate words. What kind of dyslexia is that?! Can I have a single word dyslexia? Perhaps it is called “monolexia” or “unilexia.” This happens even to this day!

You are among a very small group of intimate friends here . You can tell both us anything.  So, go ahead, fess up: What assumptions have you been carrying around with you that ultimately proved to be wrong?

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9 Responses to “True Confessions”

  1. melissa Says:
    December 6th, 2007 at 9:03 am

    i used to think that the word breakfast…was breakfrast. don’t ask me! i think that, it wasn’t until high school…or, yesterday, that i realized how wrong i was. so, don’t tell anyone! it would ruin my reputation…

  2. Ryan Says:
    December 6th, 2007 at 9:07 am

    Ok, so this is kind of a dumb one, but until my wife corrected me last week I had been spelling “whoa” as “woah” my entire life. It seriously blew my mind. I think I had even been reading that way in my head, because I never realized it.

  3. t'other Dan Says:
    December 6th, 2007 at 9:44 am

    I think woah is a pretty acceptable spelling. My spell check believes it should be Noah however.

  4. Jason Coleman Says:
    December 6th, 2007 at 10:31 am

    There are many words I misspell and misread; ‘can’t think of any now though.

    However, along similar lines, when I see something yellow, I think “white”. And when I see something white, I think “yellow”. It takes me about 1 second to correct myself, but it takes most people about .01s to recognize those colors.

    It doesn’t get me into too much trouble, but it’s always weird when it happens.

    … ooh another one.

    I always spell seperate (separate) and defenite (definite) wrong. I know how to spell them. If you asked me how to spell them, I would spell them correctly. (There’s “a rat” in there.) But when I’m typing that’s how they come out and 95% of the time I need the spell checker to catch them.

  5. Avery Says:
    December 6th, 2007 at 2:53 pm

    Ha! My son’s favorite books are “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus”, “The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog”, and “Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late”. So I guess it’s a good thing they weren’t around when you were little!

    And, until recently, I’ve always misspelled the word separate. I thought it was seperate.

  6. Jodi Says:
    December 6th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

    Okay…ready?
    That there is no such thing as white picket fences and 2.5 kids and a knight inshining armor…it was all a fairy tale?
    Yeah a bit jaded tonight…

  7. Prudence Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 5:18 am

    I think during most of my younger years I thought grapefruit is the same as grapes (which after all, is a fruit, right?). But then, of course, now I know they’re two different kinds of fruits. Hehe.

  8. meleah rebeccah Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 12:55 pm

    I spell so badly I cant even comment about it.

    The opening line of this post CRACKED ME UP.

  9. ender Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 3:09 am

    i thought for hte longest time that poland was an island. yanno, island, england, ireland, greenland … it made sense to me! but i think my mom made me look it up when i was about 9, so i was set straight (on that anyway) fairly early on.

    the embarassing one: (jodi will love this) … until just a few years ago i thought your belly button was a tunnel back inside your body. like it was kinda open. i just couldn’t figure out why people didn’t get infections there from stuff getting in it and then into your body.
    yes, i am a dork. apparently very little about biology sticks in my head. lol

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