When I was about four I belived that as I grew older my parents would grow younger. I could not wait until they woudl be children and I would be the parent so that I could punish them for mistreating me. It was not mistreatment but rather punishment.

Anon

I am a girl with an older brother. when I was younger and arguing I would threaten him by saying "When I'm a boy and I'm older thatn you..."

Emma, 15

When I was around 5 years old, my older brother would make fun of me a lot and I hated the fact that he was older then me. So I told him that in some point in my life I would be older then him and he couldn't make fun of me anymore.

Kristin

I used to think that when you turned 20 you were "officially" an adult. That meant you had to graduate college, get married and have a baby all that year. I'm 21 now and extremely thankful that I was mistaken

Jessica

I used to believe (and worry about it) thatI would grow up overnight, from a child to an adult, and wake up and my clothes would not fit me anymore, and I would have to go shopping naked for new clothes.

Anon

When I was a kid I used to beleive that adults don't lie.
It still surprises me to realize that adults lie so much more the kids do.
Kind of sad...

Dima

Since my grandparents were German immigrants, I used to think that everyone forgot how to speak English at some point in their lives and reverted to German.

Petey

I used to believe that I would never stop climbing trees - even when I turned into an adult.

Anon

When I was in elementary my friend used to rub in the fact that she was "smarter" than me because she was 4 months older. To which I honestly replied, yes, but she was also going to die 4 months before me! I think I thought that everyone dropped dead at age 100...

Anon

when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.

angela

One day, I found my nan ironing in the kitchen. I asked her why she was doing this, she explained: "Well, irons get the creases out of clothes and make them nice and smooth." I replied "Nanny, why don't you iron your face?"
Luckily, she had a great sense of humour.

Hannah

I used to belive that 13 year olds could drink.

Old enough now

I used to believe that when somebody turned 16, that they HAD to drive then, without a choice.

kat

I did the math and figured out that I would be 36 when the year 2000 arrived. I imagined that I'd be really old by then...too old to go out to a party, but maybe I could just manage to stay up late enough to watch it on TV. (I also thought all "old" people went to bed early and took naps during the day.)

Epicurienne

I used to believe that in order to be a teenager, you HAD to smoke and swear. My childhood friend and I would come home from Kindergarden and sit up in her room pretending to smoke and swear at eachother.....we thought we were so mature....

ShannonE

A girl who lived near to me and my older brother was only 3 or 4 months younger than my brother was. It was her 7th birthday this particular day and I remember remarking to my brother that he had better hurry up and get older because Linda was catching up with him.

Steph

When I was about 5 years old I must have seen some documentary about the ancient Egyptians. I was horrified when I saw what they did to people when they mummified them. Somehow I thought this practice still went on today and became terrified. I was so worried that I used to pray to God everynight to ask him to stop anyone from mummifying me when I grew up.

Susan S

I used to believe that everyone lived until they were 100 and you dropped dead on your 100th birthday!

Natalie