grown-ups : getting older - I Used To Believe

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After a fight with my older brother, I threatened him with "You just wait till I grow up and I'm older than you! You'll be sorry!"

DaveC426913

As a Child up until the age of 7 I used to believe that when grown ups reached a certain age about 70years old, they started to get younger again until they became children, then babies then would disappear totally.

Claire

Someone told me that when you reached the fine old age of 15(my curret age) that your brain cells started to decrease.So I thought that eveyone over the age of 15 didn't have a brain!

midnight

When I was about seven or eight, I was convinced that as soon as I hit a certain age, I would be indoctrinated into the "Secret Society of Adults." There I would get to choose my destiny and would be told the answers to all of life's mysteries: Who is God? What happens to dead people? How do you make babies? Why is my sister such a brat? I was really upset when I found out last year this wasn't true!

gordo

I used to believe that your age went up every year (1,2,3...) until you reached 18 and then you turned "adult" and all adults were then the same age. My Mum was quite upset when I said she was the same age as Grandma!

Maria

When I was about 5 I was convinced that as you got older you got taller, cos everyone I knew who was older than me got taller. Consequently I believed you just kept growing and growing throughout life. In hindsight, my grandfather should have been 10 feet tall.

Ross LM

when i was a youngester i thought that when we grew old, we'd turn into chimps or apes. the reason being was that when i was young i saw alot of old women with hairy chins

Jazz

i use to believe that adults all belonged to a secret club, and when you went to sleep at night all the adults got together to talk about us kids (especially me) and conspire against them ...

as i got older i revised my belief so that it was just women that belonged to this secret club, and they conspired against men ...

i'm still half convinced this club exists ...

Anon

I used to believe that all old people eventually become demented when they get old enough. This was before people had identified Alzheimer's disease, so people couldn't easily explain why some old people became more and more incapacitated mentally. Anyway, I ued to wonder when my grandparents would start becoming forgetful and losing their minds...

Henry Minsky

when I was 15 I grew up in a very strict Pentacostal faith, after attending so many single sisters meeting taught by older sisters
constantly reminding young women not to chase boys and that the bible says "He That Findeth A Wife Finds A Good Thing"!
I belived that if a man in the church asked you to marry him I had to!!
I was so afraid of men I wore dresses longer than my grandmother and ran from men.
As we now know the more you run from a man the more he wants you. It got so bad that by the time I was 18 10 brothers asked for my hand in marriage.
I drove my pastor nuts and asked him to choose for me!!!

honeybee

when i was4 and a half i thought i would be 5 feet in kindergarten

Katrina S.

When I was a little girl I very much wanted peirced ears. I thought that when you reached a certain age, you "grew" the little holes in your ears. I had no clue that you had to go to a special place and have your ears peirced there.

Kate

When I was a teen, my friends and I were having a discussion about our favorite guitar player. We thought he was really old, but he could still play even at such an advanced age. He was 28 at the time!

Anon

I belived I would someday live in a treetop.

Dreamy

when I was little I used to think you had to have a baby before you got married!

Supergirl

When I was five I asked my mom if I would ever be as old as my older brother. She replied, "Yes, of course." This made me happy. I reasoned: If I would some day be his age, then some day later I might be older than him and I might be able to beat him up then.

I used to think that in order to grow, your parents took you to the doctor and he cut off your feet, put in some more leg, then put your feet back on.

This scared me to bits. When I told my mom about this and other weird beliefs I had, she asked... "Why did you ask me about this? I would have set your mind at ease." Of course, I had never asked her! If I had, sure as shooting, she would have exclaimed, "Oh thank you for reminding me, I have to make an appointment for you!"

I used to believe (& generally still do) that people I met for the first time were the same age as me, regardless of whether they blatantly looked older or younger

Peakey

My parents both wear eyeglasses. None of my wee pals did. So I thought all grownups (and only grownups) wear them. This illusion must have faded well before I got glasses at age 10.

Anton Sherwood

When I was little, I asked my grandpa why old men were bald. He said it was because they had gotten so smart that all the knowledge in their heads pushed the hair out.

Shan

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