when i was little I was VERY VERY energetic and i wondered why my mom was never as energetic as i was.

My mom said that all of the energy in our life is put into a jar inside our bodies and as life went buy we take energy out little at a time and she told me that i should save up my energy until i get older.

I didn't move for 3 days

Farnosh

My grandparents used to manage an apartment building for senior citizens. One of the tennants was an older gentleman who had a condition that caused his entire body to shake (I think it was Parkinson's disease or something). Now, this was at the height of the "breakdancing" craze in the 80's. I mistakenly thought his gyrations were dance moves, and not involuntary. For months I thought I had discovered the hippest senior on the planet, until one day my mom stopped me from going outside with a boombox for him

Johnny_Pancakes

When I first heard about evolution and "humans coming from monkeys" I honestly thought that we were never babies, but monkeys that turned into people. I figuered we never saw the change because it happened in the wild.

Karnin

When I was a little kid I used to believe that as people grew up, their bodies didn't grow but an older version of them just grew around the younger version like a shell and that person would take over. There were different stages as you grew up and I though that when I was a teenager I'd be trapped inside some teenage guy's body, and then later we would both be trapped inside an adult body..and so on.
Funny thing was, when I explained this to my Grandma at the age of five she understood it! I remember she made a joke and said, "My God, I must have a ton of people trapped inside me."

Andy

I always thought (up until I turned twelve) Alzheimer's disease was Old Timer's disease, because only old people, or old timers, got it

Puck

I used to believe that a "senior discount" was for people who named their sons after them selves

Spencer Tew

In kindergarten I finally admitted to my mom that I never wanted to be a teenager because teenagers have to go on dates with boys and take off their clothes.

She assured me that the clothes part was completely optional.

Anon

My nephew used to think that when people got old, they developed a foreign accent. This is because both sets of his grandparents were Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe, and they (and the rest of the family of their generation) all had accents. So he thought it was part of getting old. This was revealed to the family when he was about 4, and one of his mother's friends brought her Dutch boyfriend to the house for dinner. My nephew said in amazement, "He's young, and he has an accent already!"

Ronne

My dad had a scar in his back; it was like a gun shot-wound. for years I thought that he'd got it saving the prime-minister from an assassin. Then a few years back my mum told me it was really from where he'd fallen back on a pair of scissors as a kid.

Genni

When I was little I wanted to be a mommy when I grew up - of course, this was a bit difficult being that I'm a boy. It sure didn't stop me from trying to breastfeed a baby

j-red

When I was little I used to believe that all old women were called Betty!!

Katie

My sister and I used to believe that as we grew older we would turn into men, and that our little brother would turn into a woman. We had an incredible sense of justice and thought it was only fair that you got to live half your life as each sex.
We must have been about 5-6 years old, and kept asking our mum when we'd turn into boys. One day she got mad and told us to "stop talking nonsens!". It was a shock. We cried.

Elin Beate

I used to belive that the girls don't necessarily grow up into women also boys don't necessarily grow up into men, and I was wondring if I would be a man or woman.

A MAN!

I believed it when my parents said I could be whatever I wanted to be when I grew up. I wanted to be either a bird or a fairy and was devastated when I was eventually informed that they weren't within the realm of possibilities.

Sandi

When you grow up you become the opposite sex. When I was a little girl I would often talk about what I was going to do when I was older and I would start out the sentence with, "When I grow up and become a man..."

Angela Carreiro

When I was younger i believed that when you had children you could read your kids minds. I never thought bad things about my parents when they where near me until I was about ten years old.

C

I used to believe that my father stopped reading me stories because he grew too tall to fit in my room anymore.

Anon

I used to believe that grown-ups were born grown up.

Juleen

On one of my earliest birthdays, my grandmother (who was at the time receiving therapy for dementia) presented me with a beautiful doll. A little confused, she said "I think you should call your dolly 'Therapy'." I agreed, and carried the doll everywhere for years. It wasn't until I was in my late teens that I realised 'Therapy' wasn't actually a girls name...

D

I used to believe that a Granary - the place where you store Grain was a place you put people - Grans - when they got old.

Anon