I used to think that everyone turned a certain age, and you could take your teeth out of your mouth.
(Because I always saw my grandparents' teeth in water at night when we visited)

Kilgore

I used to believe that everyone was supposed to live to the age 100 (at which age we would all presumabley drop). People only died earlier due to accidents or illness.

Artamnesia

I used to believe untill I was five that all adults are born like that and all little children stay little

Igor

I used to believe that everything was perfect and that their was always a set 'protocol' for everything that happened.

Anon

I thought that when I grew up I would have really curly hair for some reason (it's as straight now as it was then). I would also have an oak-panelled study and I'd sit and write in it and be stressed out. I'd have a nervous maid who'd bring me coffee on a tray. She looked kind of like the maid on the Cluedo box. None of this looks set to come true.

I later thought that when I turned 16 I'd be beautiful, have a boyfriend, and never say the wrong thing. Sad really

Anon

My dad had me convinced that I would turn into a boy when I turned twelve. By the time I did turn twelve, I was 99.99% convinced he was wrong-but I checked anyway.

Heather

as a little girl of about 6 years old, i used to think that when i grew up i would change into a boy. the turn around age was about 18--i figured that god would want us to have a taste of both sides of the coin. the change hasn't happened yet (i am 25)--maybe i'm just a slow developer?

janita

Someone told me that when you reached the fine old age of 15(my curret age) that your brain cells started to decrease.So I thought that eveyone over the age of 15 didn't have a brain!

midnight

Up until the age of about 6 I always believed that people were born as either adults or children; I was one of the unlucky ones I used to think until the day I could switch the light switch off without standing on something, which made me realise I was in fact growing up

Richard Courtney

I was always a big kid. I was the only one in the elementary school who ordered the plain milk cartoons. I thought that it was why i was so tall. It had aged me. Thi smade me sad because i thought when i hit 30 i'd look 70.

britishbroccoli

My brothers friend still thinks he will be a kangaroo when he grows up and he's 9!!!!!

Jane Rom

When I was little I didn't comprehend growing old. I thought that when kids grew up they moved out of the family home and never saw their parents again. The parents would then have more children to replace them and so on.
With this in mind I casually asked my mum whether she had had any children before me that I didn't know about!
She was somewhat shocked at my question!

Holly

When I was about five, and didn't understand the whole how and where babies came from, I used to think as we (children) aged our parents would do the opposite and become younger. And once we reached adulthood, we would become the parents and our parents were our children. Death and giving birth did not exist in my mind.

Marisa

I firmly believed that my parents would not die. Old people were old, and that was their lot. It was my parents job to stay about 28 and make sure everyone got to college safely.

As for me, I knew I'd be ten one day, but that was the distant future. Until I got there, I was fine with whatever age I happened to be at.

MJ

I used to think that you keep growing until you die, so around age 70 or 80 or so, you would become a giant. I was scared to see my Great Grandma, (died in 2001), who was about 90 at the time, because I thought she was a giant However when I saw my Grandma and Grandpa I wasn't scared.

Charlie

This must be prefaced by saying that I am a white girl.

When I was about 5 or 6, my best friend and I were playing in the snow. We had just learned about Martin Luther King Jr. that day in school, and we both thought he was a pretty amazing. My friend announced that when she grew up, she was going to be Martin Luther King Jr.; but I had decided that I was going to be Martin Luther King Jr. We got in a huge, tearful fight about it because I knew there could only be one (splitting the world wasn't an option!) and my mom eventually had to come and take me home.

Autumn

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 was very afraid of kidnappers as a child and couldnt wait to be a grown up as i thought adults could not be kidnapped!

jack

I used to believe that my clothes would get bigger so I could always wear them. My mother would tell me that some piece of clothing had "gotten too small" and I would insist that it would get bigger. I guess I figured that if I gotten bigger, and the clothes had "gotten smaller," they could also get bigger, since they were clearly changing size already.

Jillian

I believed that adults knew everything. Literally. And since I'd heard somewhere that 18 was the official age when one becomes an adult, I thought that when I turned 18 everything would just come to me and I'd be like, "whoa".

Kelsey