When I was 10 my dad coached my girl's soccer team. One day at practice the team was slacking off so my dad said, "I'm 103 years old and I can do this drill faster than you!" One girl on the team took it to heart and went hold and told her mom that "Mr. B's 103 years old!" I guess my dad's balding gray hair was all it took to convince her! Gee, I guess that makes Dad about 121 now.

Amanda

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

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

My dream was to be a dad when I grew up, which would provew to be difficult seeing as i am a girl.

Anon

I used to think that if a grown up fell down, they wouldn't be able to get up by themselves.

Kim

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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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

I usedto belive that if you didnt have kids, you would never get old

Dessy

I used to think adults were happy all the time, except on soap operas. And that adults knew everything, like how to order an airline ticket, and that really awed me.

redhotcinder

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 one day, my younger brother would be older than me and then he'd pick on me!

Andrew

I used to believe that when you got to certain age you had all your teeth removed, this was because both my parents have false teeth. (I now attend the dentist regularly!)

Anon

When I was 10, I used to believe that 'blind date' was about a person who dates a man or woman who's eyes were blind.

Anon

I used to believe that when you got older you would be able to read other people's mind. I thought this because I would watch my mom and her friends talking and one would start a sentence and someone else would finish it.

Kim

When I was little I had a very balanced, cyclical view of life. First of all, I thought little boys grew up to be "big girls" (i.e., women) and little girls grew up to be "big boys" (i.e., men). When my parents told me I would never be a big boy, I cried.

At the same time, I also thought that young people got old and old people young. By the time I was my grandmother's age, she would be my age! I don't remember when this illusion was shattered.

robin

I didn't really know where to put this but here was one of my beliefs-
When I was little, I liked animals so I wanted to be a vet when I grew up. My older brother and sister told me that vets were mean to animals, but strippers were very nice to animals. So at church one day, somebody asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. Naturally, I said I wanted to be a stripper! (at least they didnt tell me that hookers were the ones that were nice to animals!!)

me

When I was 5 or 6 and younger my parents would sometimes say things that started with "when you grow up. . . " I would listen politely to this assumption, but of course I knew that I had ALWAYS been a little kid and would naturally stay that way. And those stories about when they were kids? Made up completely.

David T

As a child I saw how much energy grownups put into kissing and love type stuff. It seemed like a real waste of time, yet I knew one day I would want to spend time and energy the same way, 'cause it happened to everyone. I dreaded that.

Related to this, I saw how much people change mentally as they got older, and since the person I was at that moment would morph into someone completely different, who I was would essentially die to be replaced by this different creature. I still feel this way.

David T

i used to believe that my brother and I were going to switch places with my parents - that as we got bigger, they would get smaller. I was under 5, because my other brother had not been born yet - and it seemed to make sense. But I distinctly remember this belief - as it seems profound to me now - knowing that we do in a sense take care of our parents as they grow old...

Anon

When I was about three years old, I remember that I used to believe that the year that you were born in didn't matter when figuring out age...I thought it was only months...so like if you were born in January then you were always older than someone born in August...so since my birthday is in June when I found out that my cousin was born in July I kept insisting that he was younger than me even though he was born the year before me.

Anon