I used to believe that old people saw in black and white.

Anon

I always thought my mum was really old, like much older than other grown ups - she told me she ate the last Do-do.

Debbie

When my older sister was teasing me or being mean to me when I was younger, I used to tell her: "Just WAIT till I'm older than you, THEN you'll pay for everything you ever did to me..!" I was convinced that when you reached a certain age, you would start all over again...

Marianne

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

I am a girl with an older brother. when I was younger and arguing I would threaten him by saying "When I'm a boy and I'm older thatn you..."

Emma, 15

when i was young i thought that all grown ups changed their name when they got older so they would sound more professional

erin

I once asked my mum when she was a little boy, and I wondered when it was my turn too.

Confused

I used to believe that grown-ups got scared because they were so high off the ground.

Sammy

i used to believe that some day i'll catch up with my brother and never have to be the younger one again!!!!

rhea

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 believe that grown women couldn't wear normal socks - that after a certain age, you had to wear nylons with everything.

Ronda

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

I thought that adults used to see life in black and white, just like on the pictures they showed me. I couldn't believe they could see colour!

wuss

My ex-girlfiend's daughter was about 3 or 4 years old and her mother also had a 8 month-old baby boy at the time.

In conversation, I referred to the baby as a boy. The daughter corrected me and said "That's not a boy, that's a baby!"

She wouldn't believe me when I tried to explain that he was a baby boy. In her mind, it was either a boy or a baby, it couldn't be both, and clearly it was a baby.

Scott M. Stolz

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 used to believe that everyone lived until they were 100 and you dropped dead on your 100th birthday!

Natalie

When I was in kindergarten (about 5 or 6), some kids in my class had gotten into the conversation whether or not God ever danced. My mom always told me she was SO OLD she knew Wilma Flinstone, George Burns' mother, etc., so I proceeded to stand up and tell everyone that I would ask my mom because she was from the "olden days" and she'll know if God ever danced (she was only about 38-40 at the time).

To this day I'm reminded by my mom that I told everyone she'd know if God danced. I can't live it down!

Annabelle

I used to think that people never stopped growing. When my mom talked about clothes she'd owned for years, I couldn't understand why she hadn't grown out of them.

sm

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