I believed that my clothes shrunk in my wardrobe over time, rather than me growing out of them. I thought everyone was born a certain size and had to buy new clothes when their current clothes had shrunk too small to fit anymore!

Em

I used to believe that children stayed little.

Mel91

i used to believe that kids were born kids and adults were born adults, there was no convincing me otherwise until i was about 13

frank

I noticed that there were lots of short old people so i used to believe that when you became an old person, you would start shrinking again.

Anon

I used to believe that grown-ups, especially my parents, never cried. Really messed me up when it happened for the first time.

Lindsay

its not mine but an old frends- this is for you sarah.

she asked her dad if she could become a giraffe and he said yes when she was older. she belived she would be a giraffe till she was five.

Anon

I thought for about 10 years that my mom was only 33 yrs old, now past that age myself I tell my son the same !

Jo Mitchell

My sister said this last year... when she was 18! I don't know if this counts but she believed it when she said it and didn't get why I was laughing at her until I explained it to her very slowly.

Apparently she's always been under the impression that since she's one year older than me, she has known me for one year longer than I've known her.

Anon

I used to believe that if you were a boy when you were born then you grew up to be a girl & vice versa. Thanks Grandpa.... then my Dad tried to convince my kids of the same thing - luckily they were smnarter than me - imagine my embarassment when i went to school & told people that my Grandpa used to be a little girl!

HLS

I generally believed in happy endings!

Claire

I used to think that when you get older you could go back and redo things.

cobra

until i was about 9 or 10 i believed that people never stopped growing until they died - i used to imagine that people who lived to 100 were about 8 feet tall!

a very naive individual

When I was young, I used to believe that Life was in 4 steps. At birth, your a child until ur 25, then ur an adult until your 50, then old until your 75, then it's Golf and Bingo until your 100!

Anon

This is really embarrassingly stupid, but when I was young (really old enough to know better though!) I noticed that many older women had breasts which had begun to... sag. Since I knew some animals had their teats closer to the belly than the chest (like cows) I seriously concluded I had found one more proof of evolution, i.e. that past generations were physically more akin to animals in this one area. I wonder why-- I wasn't usually nearly so dumb!

Walter

"I thought Grown-ups were always Grown-ups. And that children would always be children. What a major disappointment when my mother showed me pictures of herself as a child. I knew than that I too would have to grow up one day. Now that really sucked."

Karin Lyn

when i was younger, i didn't like it that my brother was older and therefore stronger and cleverer than me. one day someone told me that i would be as old as him some day. i thought that meant that when he was about 20, i would catch up and be 20 aswell. i'm still waiting

The Dipper

I use to think that if you were pretty from the grades 1-5th grade then when u get to middle school you would become real ugly..

till this day.. im still unsure

My brother told me that I would turn into a boy when I got older. It made me cry.

Sarah

When my sister and I were little my dad had a white spot on his beard. When we would ask him what it was he would tell us he spilt milk on it. We believed him until we were 11 and one of our friends old us it was because he was old. We were devastated!!

Keely

My dad was born in 1943 and was drafted into the Army during Vietnam; he was discharged two years later. So for years I believed that every adult male had to be in the military for two years. I really dreaded it for a long time.

Andrew