I remember when I was 5 years old, my dad gave me a bath. While I was hanging out in the tub playing with the water and toys my dad had a friend visiting with him. I remember over hearing my dad saying to his friend how he felt very tired and that he felt and was falling apart at his age. I literally thought he was "falling a part." I was crying all night long.

Marni

As I was probably the most clumsiest kid in neighborhood, I watched my older "friends" playing and I was thinking how great it would be if I grew up instantly and would be much smarter than everyone else.

Antonia

I used to believe that if I wasn't good I'd turn into a boy, because everywhere people were always saying: "Those boys sure are awful. I wish they could be girls." Or "Dennis, if you acted more like your sister you wouldn't be in this mess." and etc.

Jeyna

When I was young I used to think that when you got really old then you got younger again-kind of reversed! I thought that when they got down to babies again they would die!
I can't beleive I said that!

Hollie

When we were little my little brother believed that ages went from old to young. His favorite thing to say was " When I was 16 I drove a car...." it was the funniest thing in the world.

Anon

I used to believe (& generally still do) that people I met for the first time were the same age as me, regardless of whether they blatantly looked older or younger

Peakey

When I was about 5 I was convinced that as you got older you got taller, cos everyone I knew who was older than me got taller. Consequently I believed you just kept growing and growing throughout life. In hindsight, my grandfather should have been 10 feet tall.

Ross LM

I used to believe that kids got older while grown-ups got smaller.

Loss of Innocense

I used to believe that someone who reach 13 could do anything like work to earn money, drive, vote, posess adult material, watch R-rated movies, smoke, drink alcohol, be alone, etc.

Anon

I used to believe that adults were never children, and i would never be an adult and it would always be the same forever, yup, i did!

Aidan

when i was little i had two very well thought out things that i wanted to be when i grew up..... in kindergarten i wanted to work at burger king so i could get free breakfast burritos... and then later on in life, i dumped that idead and wanted to be the ladies in the magic show who turned into panthers... the only thing that worried me was whether i'd be the front or the back.. lol

Anon

I had some friends who were younger than me. I thought that I would slow down when I grew and soon they would become older than me.

*jibberish*

I used to believe that when you grew up, you became the opposite gender of what you were when you were a kid. I thought my mom started out as a boy and my dad started out as a girl. I became very mad when I thought I was going to become a girl when I grew up!

A mad little elf boy

When I was a kid I used to think that 16 was old. Why? Because grown ups didn't want to play the way I did and neither did 16 year olds. Grown ups were old, so it seemed like anyone who didn't want to play with toys and have fun was old. None of my 16 year old babysitters wanted to play with toys.

Lee

I used to think that when you go out on a date, you would go to this one place a lot like the mall called "The Date" that had stores, restaurants, Movies, CD shops, and even phone booths. and supposedly it was a HUGE skyscraper thingy

Kyle

When I was a kid, I could not possibly believe that ANYONE would want to grow up and leave their parents. I was about 6 and told my mom that when I grew up I was NEVER going to leave her! And now I know why we grow up and move out.

Emma

when i was little, i used to think EVERYONE older than me was 22. i dont know why it was 22, but i just knew that it was. boy, times sure have changed..

kerry

My dad used to tell me that when I got into my teens, I would turn into a "Gorshkin," a kind of animal that has horns. I used to picture some kind of gargoyle or puck creature.

It turns out it was his little joke, and he actually told me that in my teens, I would become a Gorshkin, which was "horny" creature.

Benjamin Reed

I thought that, by age 10, you were a grown-up. I think I got this idea from babysitters who were only in their teens, but were in charge.

Anon

When my sister was about three she would always say that she wanted to grow up to be a big girl just like her brother Chris. She would also say that first she would be a girl then she would be a boy then she would be a mother and then a father.

Ashley