i used to think that when i turned 5 i would become a boy because 5 sounded like a boy age.

Anon

I used to think that once you were past the age of 20, you lost the ability to run, fall down, or sit on the floor. I think this is because I never saw my parents run (come to think of it, I still haven't) and I guess I assumed the reason my mom kept telling me not to run off was because she wasn't able to keep up with me.

I'm 22 and I can still run and sit on the floor

I used to believe that people didn't grow old, I mean, I really thought that my grandmother just born with that age, and I was terrified when I discovered that my mom would be really old one day.

Mônica

I used to believe that as we grew up we actually changed sex. So if you were born a boy you would eventually change into a female. I was really upset that i may not be able to have a baby as i would have eventually changed into a male. Thankfully i didn't change and now am expecting my first child!

grace

I spent a lot of time with my dad, he worked at home. When I was 3 and 4 and would misbehave, he would say "When I was a little girl, I didn't do that." I knew caterpillars changed to butterflies, and pollywogs to frogs, so for a while I thought I could grow up to be a daddy. My mother disabused me of that notion, when she heard it.

elsieh

I used to think 9 year olds were really old.

Danielle

When I was 4 and my cousin was 8, I was counting how many years I had to grow to get older. Then I thought, next year I will be 5 and then 6 and then 4 years later I will be 8! And I will be the same age as my cousin! My mom had to explain many times to me that as I grew older, other people (including my cousin), would get older as well.

kathy

since i was 6 yrs old, i always believed that when ill grow up, ill be DAD.thats the only reason, a child grow-up...

asad

whenever grown-ups would show me pictures of themselves as children or talk about when they were younger i would not and agree, but secretly i believed that they were just making it up. i thought that there was no way they could have ever been children, and that there was no way i would ever "grow up" and become an adult.

Jess

when i was little, i believed that big people...ie moms and dads, never got threw up and never got zits....lol....lol...wish i had been right!

silly little girl

i used to believe that we were suppose to be born as adults and instead of growing older, we are suppose to grow younger. so when the time comes for us to depart from the world, we are to die young instead of dying old... weird right... the thoughts that i had as a child...

nenny

when i was really really small , i used to belive that you got up untill you were eleven , then turned into a baby again. when mum said she was thirty nine , i thought you had to pay God a million pounds so you wouldn't be a baby again. I thought this because i was a baby at the time andcould only cound to eleven.

Coleen

When I was very small I used to believe that when girls grow up a certain age, they automatically become mothers.

Adnan

When I was around six, my grandma came to visit from a different state. I saw her push her false teeth out with her tongue, and for years I believed that it was a trick you learnt as you got older. Whenever I was bored, I would try to push my teeth out with my tongue. I was determind to do it, to show my friends. I was disappointed that I couldn't do it!

Terri

My baby sister who is 3 years old (I'm 21) thinks that one day when she grows up she will become me and I will be her!!

Taby

When I was little, I used to believe that boys would turn into women, and girls would turn into men. I guess I believed it because every girl I knew was flat-chested, including myself. I never said anything because I truly believe it was true.

Now I obviously know that doesn't happen, but it is kind of funny looking back...

Robyn

My brother always firmly believed that one day would be older than me. My mom told him that he wouldn't, but he might be bigger than me. I figured that this meant I'd shrink at a certain age to be smaller than him.

Anon

When I was younger my Dad told me that people temporarily lost their hearing during their teenage years, which is why they turned up their music so loud. He's a doctor and I believed him for years!

Emily