I used to believe that grown-ups got scared because they were so high off the ground.

Sammy

I noticed that there were lots of short old people so i used to believe that when you became an old person, you would start shrinking again.

Anon

When I was in kindergarten (about 5 or 6), some kids in my class had gotten into the conversation whether or not God ever danced. My mom always told me she was SO OLD she knew Wilma Flinstone, George Burns' mother, etc., so I proceeded to stand up and tell everyone that I would ask my mom because she was from the "olden days" and she'll know if God ever danced (she was only about 38-40 at the time).

To this day I'm reminded by my mom that I told everyone she'd know if God danced. I can't live it down!

Annabelle

I couldn't count any higher than 10 when I was about 5 years old or so. I used to think that people would grow up and age one by one but once they got to 10 they would start going back down. For example, you turn 9 then 10 then back to 9 and then 8 and so on, just go up and down between 1 and 10 until you die.

I'm an idiot!

Annabelle

I used to think that every year you grew taller and taller. I was afraid that my mom and dad, because they were so much older than me, would turn into giants and accidently step on me!

Kelcey M.

"I thought Grown-ups were always Grown-ups. And that children would always be children. What a major disappointment when my mother showed me pictures of herself as a child. I knew than that I too would have to grow up one day. Now that really sucked."

Karin Lyn

When I was a kid, I could not possibly believe that ANYONE would want to grow up and leave their parents. I was about 6 and told my mom that when I grew up I was NEVER going to leave her! And now I know why we grow up and move out.

Emma

I am a little Daddy's girl and when I was little my parents and grandparents used to say I could be anything I wanted to be, no matter what it was. Well I went around telling people I was going to be a Daddy when I grew up. How embarrassing

Amanda

I used to believe that people never grow up, that children remain children forever and mummies remain mummies forever without having been children before themselves...

sguen

I used to believe that people chose to be old people, adults, kids or babies. I thought you stayed the way you were forever.

Anon

I use to think that babys wer girls and wen thay got older thay wer boys.

zzo38computer

I used to beleve that adults cood see yor skin red or blu depending on yor gender.

zzo38computer

When my friend was about 4, her cousin told her that when you graduated from high school, you had to go live in an igloo. My friend started to cry and asked her grandparents if it was true but they laughed at her.

Goonie

I knew that my mother and father were little once, but I believed that grew to the age of adults in a couple of days. I reasoned that grandparents grew even faster.

jack diddly squat

I used to beleive that when you grew up to be an adult, you would be able to see your own eyeballs without the use of a mirror

Leann Hayley

This is really embarrassingly stupid, but when I was young (really old enough to know better though!) I noticed that many older women had breasts which had begun to... sag. Since I knew some animals had their teats closer to the belly than the chest (like cows) I seriously concluded I had found one more proof of evolution, i.e. that past generations were physically more akin to animals in this one area. I wonder why-- I wasn't usually nearly so dumb!

Walter

I used to think that on your birthday you'd suddenly grow taller. I couldn't grasp that you grew gradually.....

Patience is a virtue