When I was younger I used to hear over and over again how a lady should act. One day when I was about 5 my mother asked me "don't you want to be a lady when you grow up?"

I responded quite frankly: "I don't want to be a lady, I want to be a woman!"

Anon

I used to believe that the morning I woke up for college we'd have to buy me all new clothes because then I would be an adult and wouldn't be able to fit into child's clothes anymore.

Kiana

When I used to watch my grandmother read, she looked down at the book so that it looked like her eyes were closed. After seeing my mother do this too, I figured that when you got older, you were able to read books with your eyes closed!

Raven

When I was younger I thought that all the adults where wearing masks and only when I'm not there they would take off their masks and show their horrible monster faces.

Kitty

When i was a little girl i was very tall for my age and i used to be very proud of it and always stod up straight then a another little girl said it was better to be small and i didn't question this and deceided i had to be small so everyday afetr school i thought that i should try and curl myself into a ball so i could be small because i thought all my standing up straight had made me tall so for half an hour i made my self into a little ball and then i would empty out a little cupboard and see if I could fit in if I could i would say that my work will be done needless to say i never did.

Roxanne

I once asked my mum when she was a little boy, and I wondered when it was my turn too.

Confused

I used to believe that the only people that went to college were Jamaicans

Lauren

When I was little, most of the grownups in my grandparents' generation were immigrants. I believed that when you get old, you acquire an accent. After all: all the old people had accents, and none of the young ones did.

Anon

I used to think i was old first and over time you become a kid.

Anon

When I grew up, I was going to be a mom with no kids.

Anon

impatient at my growth rate,i used to belief that by stepping into my mum's footprints when i was 8 or 9 will actually make me grow older until she caught me one day,after telling her my reason,she explained it doesnt make one grow faster.

tomilola

I used to believe that all people werer born the size that they were. so i thought i would never grow any bigger and that my dad was born as full grown person.

ERB

when i was four years old, i asked my mum how old she was. she said '21', as lying about one's age was common among women in those days (and, of course, still is!). When, two years later, her birthday arrived, I sent her a card saying 'happy 23rd birthday, mummy!'. She was 44. i guess when you are a small child one adult looks very much like another - whether they are 16 or 61!

lindsay

Up until the age of about 6 I always believed that people were born as either adults or children; I was one of the unlucky ones I used to think until the day I could switch the light switch off without standing on something, which made me realise I was in fact growing up

Richard Courtney

When I was young, I used to believe that Life was in 4 steps. At birth, your a child until ur 25, then ur an adult until your 50, then old until your 75, then it's Golf and Bingo until your 100!

Anon

i used to believe my mum was older than my dad because her birthday was before his. my dad encouraged this thought until the day i realised i was wrong.

Joanna

When I was little my younger brother said he had been really old before, then he grew to be young.

Anon

im grade 2, my teacher said that she was 2000 years old and i belived her

---pepsi---

Til the age of around 9, I believed that everyone never got any older, getting old was their punishment from God. I thought old people were born old, and so on.

I also thought the whole world was my state till the age of 8 when I was sadly proved wrong when my family took a flight to the eastern coast to visit relatives.

Chelsea in California

when i was little, my sister (who is three yrs older than me) was making me angry so i said to her, u just wait until im older than u!!
she killed herself laughing and i didnt understand y!

anon