i used to believe that when I grew up and was perfect (which is the line my grandmother kept telling me ..) that I would be able to take my teeth out just like her.

Anon

I thought you were put on earth as a either a kid or grown-up.

megan

as a kid i believed that as soon as you became a teenager you had to break into houses and steal stuff, and spend the rest of your time hanging out in front of the local 'milk bar'. This was mostly thanks to my mum blaming all bad things on teenagers and the fact that we lived in a pretty rough area full of bored teens. I soooo did not want to be a teenager!

donttrustanyoneover30

I thought Alzheimer's was Old Timers for the longest time. I've asked a bunch of people and it seems i was alone in this. Hey looking back i think i was clever, wrong but clever.

Shantia

I used to believe that every time my teacher threw a birthday party for kids with summer birthdays, we were already another year older. When I was in kindergarten (6 yrs old), and it got to be spring of my kindergarten year, my teacher threw the summer birthday kids a birthday party (I was one of the summer birthday people) before school ended for the summer. I went home and told my mom I was 7 years old...She said, "No, you're not, you have to wait until August." and I said, "How long until August?" and she said, "Not for a long time." and I said, "Well, I want it to be August NOW!" and then she went on to tell me it just wouldn't work out that way... The same thing happened when I skipped from kindergarten to 2nd grade (I was in 1st grade after kindergarten, but for only one month, then they moved me to 2nd grade). My 2nd grade teacher threw a birthday party for everybody in my class that had summer birthdays (a lot of us!), so I went home again and told my mom I was 8 years old. I was soooo bummed!!

PZelda

I was born in 1955. I remember as a kid calculating that if I could stay alive until at least the age of 45 I would live to see the 21st century. I thought I might just squeak by and make it but it was by no means certain because 45 was very old. 

Rocketeer 

I used to believe that when people go older, their hair would turn white (of course), but also that their eyes would turn light blue. I only had my elderly relatives on my mother's side, who all had white hair when they were still fairly young, and beautiful blue eyes.

valerie

When I asked my grandad what growing old meant, he replied it was like becoming an antique ... your chest sank into your drawers!

Pete C.

As a youngster,i thought that growing up would be as easy as A B C,.And all that my vision of adult-hood would somehow be automaticley bestowed upon me!HOW WRONG,I must have mist a couple of very important lesson"s along the way!!

Spencer jung

My grandson thought all clothes were sized by age. When I was looking for a blouse, he picked out one for me , but I said it was too small, to which he replied, "How old are you then Nana". I was delighted to answer 18!

Anon

I used to believe when I was a kid, that when you turned 18, no one would be able to tell you what to do, ever-again-in-life! I couldn't WAIT to turn 18.

I'm now in my forties and I'm still being told what to do, how I should live, what I should think....... I had more fun as a kid :(

valiree44

Since I had an older brother growing up (and still do), I believed that all younger brothers eventually grew up to be older brothers. I believed that I would have a younger brother to pick on and torment the way my older brother did to me. Unfortunately, my parents didn't have any more children.

Cyle

I used to believe that you grew up and then once you got to be a old fart you then started to grow young again. I thought that my grandmother and I would be the same age as she began to grow young again!

susan

When I was young I used to think that as I grew older, my mom would grow younger and that we'd meet in the middle and be best friends forever.

Kristen

When I was a kid I used to think that 16 was old. Why? Because grown ups didn't want to play the way I did and neither did 16 year olds. Grown ups were old, so it seemed like anyone who didn't want to play with toys and have fun was old. None of my 16 year old babysitters wanted to play with toys.

Lee