When I was about eight years old my mom asked me one day, what do I want to become when I grow up? I told my mom that I want to become a boy or a man, because i thought that we change gender in a certain stage of growing up.

Riz

I thought that you were born at a certain age. I thought my Nanna was born that big and old. :-)

Hillie

i always believed women were younger than men

k

When i was a kid i thought i would grow up to be a woman, because i lived with my Mom and my older sister. I reckond all girls would be older and boys younger, so once i said something like: "When i am a girl i'm going to have 3 children..."

Victor Dantas (Lx, Portugal)

Victor Dantas

i used to believe when i was a kid that you were only allowed to speak 5 million words in a lifetime and that is why old people didn't speak that much because they had used all there words up

mark Johnson

When I was very little, I thought all adults were perfect. That they never made mistakes in *anything* - like they would never make an error in addition or multiplication, or ever make a mistake. I also believed adults never did bad things, or got angry. I believed this until I was at least 4 or 5.

Anon

my mom said, "this is my left." to me when she was facing me. so i thought that her left was my right. i then came up with the theory that when you became an adult or when you had puberty, your rights and lefts would change. i would try to get puberty to come sooner than it would so i would be "special."

elatina

I firmly believed that my parents would not die. Old people were old, and that was their lot. It was my parents job to stay about 28 and make sure everyone got to college safely.

As for me, I knew I'd be ten one day, but that was the distant future. Until I got there, I was fine with whatever age I happened to be at.

MJ

i used to believe that if you were born a girl you would turn into a boy when you grew and if born a boy you'd turn into a girl. i use dto tell my mum ' when i grow up and am a boy...'

sophia

When I was young, I thought that some people were just created as adults and some people were destined to be children their whole lives. I figured that I was going to be stuck being a child forever, and that one day--the day I had been supposed to become an adult--some grown-up or another perma-child would break the truth to me, saying, "Ha ha, we fooled you--you're still a kid and you always will be." I always pictured this person gripping his or her belly while laughing heartily at my gullibility.

Heather A.

when we were very (four or five-ish) me and my sister would occasionaly be taken to see our great grandmother, between us me and my sister privatly decided that she must be at least 100 years old, because she was so wrinkly and decrepid.

when she died a while after that i decided that everyone must get to live exactly 100 years before they popped there clogs.

In retrospect this seems a lot fairer than only getting 60-70 years if your lucky

Raver Dave

I used to think i would turn into a boy later on in life!

Genevieve

I have two older brothers and so I thought that when you grew up you were a girl then a boy then you could be whatever you wanted to be (a man or a woman).

Anon

My mother's mother has always been a very annoying person. She talks too loud, never leaves the house, and makes up stories to make her life sound like a big burden. On the other hand, both my grandfathers (dad's mom is dead)are really cool guys. So I always thought I'd grow up to be an old man because old women are like my grandma. I still kinna believe this. I know it's not true, but I still say stuff like "when I'm an old man" or whatever.

Robin

Before I understood death, I believed that people would grow up and become really old, and then when they reached a certain age they would "grow down" until they became babies again, and then the cycle would start all over again. It never occurred to me to ask whether I had once been an old person already.

Anon