When my sister was about three she would always say that she wanted to grow up to be a big girl just like her brother Chris. She would also say that first she would be a girl then she would be a boy then she would be a mother and then a father.

Ashley

I used tot hink that working at McDonald's was a really big honor.

Well, one day when my mom and I went to a pool and a friend of her's asked me what I wanted to do when I got older, I proudly announced that 'I don't want to go to college, I wanna be a McDonald's worker!' Yeah...my mom got embarrassed.

Maddy

I thought that adults have been adults for their whole lives, kids have always been kids, and old people were always old. A while after that I realized that wasn't true. So then I told my friend that we all grow up, and he acted like I was really stupid.

Anon

When i was little my friends actually got me to belive that when you would grow up u would change so that if you were a girl when u grew up u would become a boy, and the same if you were a boy but just opposite. it took me 6 years to figure it out that it was untrue

Sex change

When I was little I used to think you got younger instead of older. So I used to say when I was older etc... I also thought I was very old and used to cry because I thought I was going to die soon.

Belle

My dream was to be a dad when I grew up, which would provew to be difficult seeing as i am a girl.

Anon

I uses to believe that when you turned 20 you suddenly became boring and couldn't do anything silly any more. I finally discovered otherwise when my cousin Chris told me he was 24 and he had played lego, climbed up trees and sucked on my other cousins dummy as a joke. So I then decided that he was still a kid and some people just remained babies forever.... That really scared me as I still wet the bed.

I'm still a kid and I'm 19. It's all in the mind

As a child I saw how much energy grownups put into kissing and love type stuff. It seemed like a real waste of time, yet I knew one day I would want to spend time and energy the same way, 'cause it happened to everyone. I dreaded that.

Related to this, I saw how much people change mentally as they got older, and since the person I was at that moment would morph into someone completely different, who I was would essentially die to be replaced by this different creature. I still feel this way.

David T

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