My younger sister got so upset at always being younger than I. So, one time when I threw in her face "I am older than you, that's why" she answered "Wait until I get older than you!" I tried to correct her, telling her it would never happen. She stated, matter-of-factly, "After you turn 24, you start counting backwards! I will be older than you then!"
Now that we are both past that age, I remind her often that i am actually younger than she is... and will be until we start counting forward again! My poor sis, she just can't win!

Tina Principe

There is 18 months between my sister and I. I am the youngest. I used to believe that I would catch her up in age, as I was 4 she was 6, then I would turn 5 in the middle of the year, and think I was getting older than her.

Kelly

When I was about 5 years old I must have seen some documentary about the ancient Egyptians. I was horrified when I saw what they did to people when they mummified them. Somehow I thought this practice still went on today and became terrified. I was so worried that I used to pray to God everynight to ask him to stop anyone from mummifying me when I grew up.

Susan S

when i was little, my sister (who is three yrs older than me) was making me angry so i said to her, u just wait until im older than u!!
she killed herself laughing and i didnt understand y!

anon

I am a little Daddy's girl and when I was little my parents and grandparents used to say I could be anything I wanted to be, no matter what it was. Well I went around telling people I was going to be a Daddy when I grew up. How embarrassing

Amanda

i use to think that you would never stop growing and you'd get too big for your house. my parents didn't get it when i kept asking like "what happens when you get too big for your house?"

also once my neighbor got extensions and told me they had glued hairs one by one onto her real hair and i honestly believed this was a common process for many years...

Q

I used to believe that grown-ups were born "grown up" and that I would stay a little kid forever.

Still A Kid

I once thought people would keep growing until they were as big as buildings if they didn't go to the doctor.

Tufty

my grandmother is the second oldest of six sisters and a brother, and she's a very short woman. several of her younger sisters are a bit taller than her, and my mother is pretty tall. I was also a very tall child. this led me to believe that when getting old, people actually "shrunk", and eventually disappeared. this was a short lived-belief: my uncle was very tall, and I went to his funeral.

Shortening SerotoNina

I used to believe that people who were in their "early twenties, etc." or "late twenties, etc." actually aged either slower or faster than everyone else.

Sarah

I used to believe that when you grew up that you got a book that explained everything because of a calvin and hobbes comic where calvin's dad lied about the book. I remember asking my mom why we had to go to school when we would eventually get a book that explained it all. How gullable.

P3822

I used to think there were FOUR genders: Boys, girls, 'wrinkly boys', and 'wrinkly girls'. I was growing up with my grandmother as a third parent, but I was convinced she wasn't the same gender as me and my mom; how could a girl's skin get so wrinkly like a...a wrinkly girl's skin!?

On a similar note, I used to think height was the end-all indicator for age, so for a while I thought my dad was older than my grandmother (his mom). Years later, I actually believed that once you reached a certain age, you would shrink until you died from being old.

A-chana

I thought I used to be big. I'd say "When I used to be big I could tie my shoes." or "When I used to be big I could read." I really believed it in my head. Just a small attempt at control from a small child.

Jana Pana

I used to believe that when you got to a certain age you got to choose whether you wanted to be a boy or a girl if you were a girl. And I used to feel bad for boys because they already grew into boys and didn't get a choice xD

Anon E. Mus

When I was a child, I used to believe I would never get old.

Luiz Guilherme - Yazigi

That people older than me knew what they were talking about.

Mark

i used to be very afraid of growing up, because that would mean that my body would continue growing larger and larger to the point that i would be a freaky giant with no place to stay and no friends/family of "my size".

mike tee

When i was 5-6,i think....I USED TO BELIEVE that the our names change when we are 'big' and i was thinking a lot what my name shall be,i wanted to prepare myself...

Windy

Growing up I believed that as time would go by you would automatically get wiser! I belived this for years and years. Now that I am fairly grown myself, I have learnt that in order to get wiser you have to apply yourself.

Annie

My sisters are 11 and 13 years older than me - 18 months apart. I used to believe that I would catch up to them and then we would all get older together.

Angela