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 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 about 4 years old I thought that exactly halfway through your life you turned into the opposite sex.

Dave XIV

I used to believe that every time my teacher threw a birthday party for kids with summer birthdays, we were already another year older. When I was in kindergarten (6 yrs old), and it got to be spring of my kindergarten year, my teacher threw the summer birthday kids a birthday party (I was one of the summer birthday people) before school ended for the summer. I went home and told my mom I was 7 years old...She said, "No, you're not, you have to wait until August." and I said, "How long until August?" and she said, "Not for a long time." and I said, "Well, I want it to be August NOW!" and then she went on to tell me it just wouldn't work out that way... The same thing happened when I skipped from kindergarten to 2nd grade (I was in 1st grade after kindergarten, but for only one month, then they moved me to 2nd grade). My 2nd grade teacher threw a birthday party for everybody in my class that had summer birthdays (a lot of us!), so I went home again and told my mom I was 8 years old. I was soooo bummed!!

PZelda

i used to believe that when I grew up and was perfect (which is the line my grandmother kept telling me ..) that I would be able to take my teeth out just like her.

Anon

When I was about four, I saw a very old hunched-over man with a cane walking down the sidewalk. I pondered this sight for awhile, and then realized" that he was so old, that his wrinkling and stooped posture were just the beginning of a process whereby he was slowly becoming a little baby once again. This made sense to me: little babies grew up, grew old, and in growing very old they became infants once again, and the cycle would continue. "Ahh," I thought, "I must have been an old man before."

Scott Moore

I used to believe that when somebody turned 16, that they HAD to drive then, without a choice.

kat

when i was a little kid i beleived i was never going to grow up, i was going to be a kid forever. i thaught grown ups were born already grown up and that was how you got to be a grown up.

jessica

i had a younger cousin.. and when we asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up he responded "a girl". he continued this desire to be a girl for about a year, and truly believed that it was possible, just like someone becomes a fireman, he could become a girl.

Emily

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 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 believed as a young child and then teenager that when one reached adulthood everyone did life correctly and never did any wrong doings. Needless to say I was so disappointed to find out grown ups were just as guilty of wrong doing as kids were!

Julie

After a trip into a wooded area, my parents needed to check my brother, sister and I for ticks. My father got in with us to search us head to toe (and actually found one on my sister). From this experience, I remember thinking that one day soon, my sister and I would start to grow our penises (as my brother and Dad both had them - and they were older). I literally thought that you had to be a certain age to have one, and it was only a matter of time before everyone got their own.

E.B.

When i was younger i thought that college was where you learned how to do adult things. Things such as cooking, washing dishes, and doing laundry. I remember i used to think this because my dad would always make a joke about "you learn that in college" regarding household chores. I'm a freshmen in college now (FSU!!) and its a little different than i thought. haha good times

Charles Grass

I got in trouble at school once for saying my great-grandma was born in the year 1. That's what everyone at home said, she even said it herself. The confusion was cleared up when she went to school with me and explained to the teacher that she *was* born in the year 1-- 1901.

KM

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.

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