When I was 5 or 6 and younger my parents would sometimes say things that started with "when you grow up. . . " I would listen politely to this assumption, but of course I knew that I had ALWAYS been a little kid and would naturally stay that way. And those stories about when they were kids? Made up completely.

David T

Growing up a picky eater, my mother told me if I didn't eat more vegetables and things like that I would be a midget when I "grew-up", as she pointed a little person to me in a supermarket. Needless to say, it freaked me out, but I'm still a picky eater and fully grown.

:P

When I was little my family had a silverware set that we ate with every night. It had two sets... little forks and big forks, little spoons and the big serving spoons, etc. Being young and naive I naturally assumed that part of bing an adult was that you had to eat with big silverware. Finally one day, being fed up with my little fork, I proudly told my parents I was tired of little silverware and I took mine back to the drawer and exchanged it for "BIG"silverware. I felt as proud as I could, and my parents just watched me like I was a moron,


I now eat with nothing but big forks!

Big Appetite, Bigger Fork

Until I was about 7 or 8, I used to believe that when you got to be 40, you suddenly changed into an old person who had lots of wrinkles, loose skin, flabby arms and legs and grey hair (for women) or was bald (for men), and needed false teeth, glasses, lots of medications, and adult diapers. I also believed that when a guy turned 21, he would suddenly grow a mustash and that it would completely grow back overnight if it was shaved off.

F.B.

I used to think that you keep growing until you die, so around age 70 or 80 or so, you would become a giant. I was scared to see my Great Grandma, (died in 2001), who was about 90 at the time, because I thought she was a giant However when I saw my Grandma and Grandpa I wasn't scared.

Charlie

I used to believe that as people got older, they changed into the opposite sex. I don't know why, but I always associated this thought with a Hershey Chocolate commercial I saw when I was a kid.

J.L.S.

i used to think that when i turned 5 i would become a boy because 5 sounded like a boy age.

Anon

I used to think that once you were past the age of 20, you lost the ability to run, fall down, or sit on the floor. I think this is because I never saw my parents run (come to think of it, I still haven't) and I guess I assumed the reason my mom kept telling me not to run off was because she wasn't able to keep up with me.

I'm 22 and I can still run and sit on the floor

I used to believe that people didn't grow old, I mean, I really thought that my grandmother just born with that age, and I was terrified when I discovered that my mom would be really old one day.

Mônica

I used to believe that as we grew up we actually changed sex. So if you were born a boy you would eventually change into a female. I was really upset that i may not be able to have a baby as i would have eventually changed into a male. Thankfully i didn't change and now am expecting my first child!

grace

I spent a lot of time with my dad, he worked at home. When I was 3 and 4 and would misbehave, he would say "When I was a little girl, I didn't do that." I knew caterpillars changed to butterflies, and pollywogs to frogs, so for a while I thought I could grow up to be a daddy. My mother disabused me of that notion, when she heard it.

elsieh

I used to think 9 year olds were really old.

Danielle

When I was 4 and my cousin was 8, I was counting how many years I had to grow to get older. Then I thought, next year I will be 5 and then 6 and then 4 years later I will be 8! And I will be the same age as my cousin! My mom had to explain many times to me that as I grew older, other people (including my cousin), would get older as well.

kathy

since i was 6 yrs old, i always believed that when ill grow up, ill be DAD.thats the only reason, a child grow-up...

asad

whenever grown-ups would show me pictures of themselves as children or talk about when they were younger i would not and agree, but secretly i believed that they were just making it up. i thought that there was no way they could have ever been children, and that there was no way i would ever "grow up" and become an adult.

Jess

when i was little, i believed that big people...ie moms and dads, never got threw up and never got zits....lol....lol...wish i had been right!

silly little girl

i used to believe that we were suppose to be born as adults and instead of growing older, we are suppose to grow younger. so when the time comes for us to depart from the world, we are to die young instead of dying old... weird right... the thoughts that i had as a child...

nenny

when i was really really small , i used to belive that you got up untill you were eleven , then turned into a baby again. when mum said she was thirty nine , i thought you had to pay God a million pounds so you wouldn't be a baby again. I thought this because i was a baby at the time andcould only cound to eleven.

Coleen

When I was very small I used to believe that when girls grow up a certain age, they automatically become mothers.

Adnan