Until I was about 10 or so, I thought a mother and a woman were the same thing, and i thought you automatically bacame both a mother and a woman on your 21st birthday.

Judy Jugs

When my dad was very little, just two or three, he was in a white family living in an all-black neighborhood. And in fact, even his dad (my grandpa) had a very dark tan and pitch black, curly hair. So, he thought that when you grow up, you turn black. He eventually figured out that there must be something wrong with that theory because his friend, Nate, also two, was black.

Rachel

I used to believe that adults were never children, and i would never be an adult and it would always be the same forever, yup, i did!

Aidan

I used to believe that if I wasn't good I'd turn into a boy, because everywhere people were always saying: "Those boys sure are awful. I wish they could be girls." Or "Dennis, if you acted more like your sister you wouldn't be in this mess." and etc.

Jeyna

when I was younger when people would ask me what I wanted to be I'd always say I wanted to be a davenport(couch)wierd huh!

couch lover

when i was like 3 i thought that when people reached a certain age they would turn the opposite sex. i dunno why.

zack

When I was four whenever people asked me what i wanted to be when I grew up I said a meat eater! One year later our family became vegetarians!

Katherine

when I was young and I would hear a women complain she had crows feet, I believed when you got older you feet changed into,well crows feet. I was about 16 when mom said it and I freaked out. She told me what it really meant.

Anon

When I was little I had a very balanced, cyclical view of life. First of all, I thought little boys grew up to be "big girls" (i.e., women) and little girls grew up to be "big boys" (i.e., men). When my parents told me I would never be a big boy, I cried.

At the same time, I also thought that young people got old and old people young. By the time I was my grandmother's age, she would be my age! I don't remember when this illusion was shattered.

robin

Since my aunt was in the army and my dad tried to be in the army (they refused to let him since he didn't have good use of his legs), and since my grandpa was in the army, I thought that when you turned 18, someone made you join the army. I was terrified of the army, and I never wanted to grow up.

Anon

When I was younger, in most of the couples that I knew, the man was older than the woman. This somehow gave me the idea that men always grow up to be older than women. The younger son of my mom's friend was harassing me by saying that he was older than me. His mom said "No, Christopher, she is older." I matter-of-factly told her, "I'm older right now, but he's sort of right becuase boys always grow up to be older than girls." I was quite confused when she set me straight.

Erika

I used to believe that when you "became" a grown-up (a huge, dramatic event in which you went to bed as a kid, and then magically, when you woke up, you'd turn into an adult, complete with Disney-esque fairy dust, lol), you'd automatically know everything, and be perfect. So, if my parents got angry with me when I was a kid, it was just because they were impatient that I had yet to undergo the "amazing transformation" that they had, and become perfect like them. Over time, however, I figured out the truth, by watching my parents screw up from time to time, like the time my mom knocked the sugar bowl on the floor and yelled "Damn it!!!" thus teaching me my first psuedo-swear word at the age of three. Or the time my dad built me an intricately designed tree house when I was four, complete with stairs, a porch, and three windows, that he said required trigonometry to build.....but he stupidly measured the door EXACTLY to my four-year-old height, not taking into consideration the fact that I would GROW. Or the time my dad decided to make a "golf course" in the backyard, so me and my brother could practice with our Fisher-Price golf clubs, and he used soup cans as the golf holes, which worked great until the first time it rained, and they filled up with rain and leaves and rust......or the time my dad was teaching my brother to ride a bike, but he neglected to teach him how to stop, until he rode his bike into the garage door and cut his lip and had to get stitches and subsist on Carnation Instant Breakfast for a few days. I have more stories, but I can't really think of any more off the top of my head right now, lol.

Emily

My dad was born in 1943 and was drafted into the Army during Vietnam; he was discharged two years later. So for years I believed that every adult male had to be in the military for two years. I really dreaded it for a long time.

Andrew

When I was 4 or 5 I used to think that only grown-ups were people,So I would act like a dog all the time!

Im not Human

When I was a small child I thought that when you became an adult you couldn't cry any more.
I beleived only children could cry...untill I saw an adult cry

Evelyn

When I was little, I thought that when I reach my mom's age, I had to call her something else besides 'mom'. I went up to her and asked her "mom, what do i call you when i'm older?"

goodnbadidea

I used to believe that when you got older you would be able to read other people's mind. I thought this because I would watch my mom and her friends talking and one would start a sentence and someone else would finish it.

Kim

My mother always said I should write a book called, "I Useda Think.." Finally There's a place out there for all the rediculous things "I Useda think" as a child. One of them goes like this..

I Useda Think that If you were born as one sex, half-way through your life you turned into the other sex.

Valerie

I used to believe that the adult age begins at age 20, after I learned the law at age 14.

Anon

My parents grew up in the Third World nation and my mother and my father's height was only 5' 2". I used to think that if my parents would apply for a job, watch R movies, purchase alcohol, drive, or anything that is for grown-ups, people would might say that they're still a child or they're not adults yet. Because most of the people that I see in America were at an average stature from 5'7 to 5'11. In my view, my parents were like teenagers because of their height.

Anon