when my sister was little she used to get really angry about the fact that i was older than her but used to think that one day she would be older when she'd grow up she thought that i would grow down and be little for the first time she didn't realise that i was little before she was born. She now realises that i will always be bigger, better and cleverer than her and i've told her that she just has to get over it because its never going to change!!! HA HA !!!

evil big sister

When I was about 9, my Grandma was living with us. She had dentures, but I had no idea. One night I was getting ready for bed and found teeth in a glass in my bathroom. I ran frantic into my mom's room telling her that someone's teeth were in my bathroom. She told me they were Grandma's, but I didn't believe her. When we went to say goodnight to her, I kept trying to get her to talk so I could look in her mouth. I was completely amazed when she did open her mouth, there were no teeth in there. I was scared.

Megan

when I was young I had older cousins than usded to pick on me all the time. When i was five till 7 I had ketp telling myself I wolud be older than them some day and thatI would give them a tast of their own medcine. But evey timr i turned a year older they did too so i went and told my mom a bout this and she said to me that would never happen and and explined and after she had a little laughf . I was soo dissapointed .

Paige

I used to think that everyone stopped being young and became middle aged at the age of 30. Now I’m 31 and don’t look or feel any different from when I was in my 20s!

Alan, Sheffield

I distinctly remember as a very young child (2ish) having a very bizarre concept of life. It was a concept that death wasn't involved with: I beleived once you got old, you started getting younger again. I actually beleived that a time would come when my parents were children and I'd be an adult charged with being responsible for them. I have no clue where I got this concept and my parents did nothing to discourage it for quite some time.

Matt

When I was about 4 or 5, I don't know why I thought this, but I thought that whenever I (or anyone) became a teenager that I would have to get braces and that my head would grow abnormaly large for my body, and that I would have to go through some kind of medical testing before I got a drivers liscense. I have no idea why I came to believe this.

keri

When I was around 6 years old, I used to believe
that I would always stay a child and that adults
would always stay adults and that was how it was and always would be. Looking back I call this now
my Peter Pan theory.

Wendy

When my family was at a mall or movie theatre or some other public place, my parents would often verbally express their aggravation with the "crazy teenagers" being loud or obnoxious or rude. For a long time, I thought the word "teenagers" simply meant people who were rude or just plain "bad."

Michael

I used to believe that when you get older you start loosing certain parts of your body. Like limbs, eye sight, etc.

Stupid

I thought for about 10 years that my mom was only 33 yrs old, now past that age myself I tell my son the same !

Jo Mitchell

I used to think that if you held your breath when you were young you could save those few breaths you would have taken but didn't and then use them on your death bed and and add seconds, even days to your life. I had a plan to hold my breath every day for a few minutes so that by the time I was old I would have gained myself at least a month of extra living-time.

Anon

around the age of six i used to think that when you were young, you were a girl. and when you grew up you turned into a boy. i was a messed up child. haha!

g e e !!

When I was young, I used to think that the amount of wrinkles an old person had corresponded with their age. For example, if a lady was 80 years old, she had to have 80 wrinkles on her face. Also, I believed that they would double in size each year, so by the time my grandfather would turn 100, his wrinkes would be so large that he would be unable to fit inside his bedroom.

Pip

Whenever I asked a question such as "How come my sister has to get braces?" my parents would answer "It's in her jeans, my parents both had them". I figured when you got to a certain age, you would recieve a pair of pants that would somehow determine your life.....im still waiting!! haha

jake

My daughter believed that the older you got the darker you got and that is how black people came into being. Her dad's family is Native American, he was dark, his mother darker and his grandmother even darker. When we moved into a new neighborhood with a black nex door neighbor, she kept referring to him as that really old black man. He was probably 40 at the time.

C Brown

When I was younger, the term "dumping" was never explained to me, as far as relationships. So accordingly, I associated it with "trash cans". This is why I thought being "dumped" was so bad and why women would rather dump the man before he could dump her. Sounded so painful!

Anon

I remember when I was 5 years old, my dad gave me a bath. While I was hanging out in the tub playing with the water and toys my dad had a friend visiting with him. I remember over hearing my dad saying to his friend how he felt very tired and that he felt and was falling apart at his age. I literally thought he was "falling a part." I was crying all night long.

Marni

when i was realy young my grandparents would always say you are geting so old so fast, since i was young i was worried becuz i didnt wanna grow up, so i started to pour baby oil all over myself whew ever i could. My mom would ask why i was so greasy and i would say "Im using the baby bottle to get young mommy!" The day later i was only allowed to go to the bathroom with my parents, lol

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I assumed that some people were born old, and I happened to be born young and would stay pretty much the same forever.

Anon