when i was like 3 i thought that when people reached a certain age they would turn the opposite sex. i dunno why.

zack

When I was younger, the term "dumping" was never explained to me, as far as relationships. So accordingly, I associated it with "trash cans". This is why I thought being "dumped" was so bad and why women would rather dump the man before he could dump her. Sounded so painful!

Anon

My brother who is seven years younger than I believed that one day he would be older than I. It was a fun rib while it lasted.

S1nF0ny

I used to believe that life would be like "Happy Days" when I would be a teenager.

Anon

I belived I would someday live in a treetop.

Dreamy

I used to think that everyone stopped being young and became middle aged at the age of 30. Now I’m 31 and don’t look or feel any different from when I was in my 20s!

Alan, Sheffield

when I was young I had older cousins than usded to pick on me all the time. When i was five till 7 I had ketp telling myself I wolud be older than them some day and thatI would give them a tast of their own medcine. But evey timr i turned a year older they did too so i went and told my mom a bout this and she said to me that would never happen and and explined and after she had a little laughf . I was soo dissapointed .

Paige

I used to believe that, once boys reached the age of eleven, they would begin turning into monkeys. Their brains would detiorate, and they would grow hair in strange places. They'd perform monkey-like actions.

Hey, I wasn't too far from the truth. :)

Kelsey

I used to believe that Mothercare sold babies,that Jaws might bight my bum whist I sat on the toilet,that the lady on talking clock heard me when I called her "wobbly bottom" because my dad told me so, and between the ages five to ten you had your birhday twice...so you had a little tenth birthday then a big tenth birthday when you were much older, like shoe sizes... you were a size ten childrens or size ten adults.

Anon

I used to believe that you graduate high school at age 20.

Anon

I used to believe that all old people eventually become demented when they get old enough. This was before people had identified Alzheimer's disease, so people couldn't easily explain why some old people became more and more incapacitated mentally. Anyway, I ued to wonder when my grandparents would start becoming forgetful and losing their minds...

Henry Minsky

when i was little,i thought that when turned 19 you then became 1 again.Like this:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1 2.....

someone

When I was little, I used to believe that boys would turn into women, and girls would turn into men. I guess I believed it because every girl I knew was flat-chested, including myself. I never said anything because I truly believe it was true.

Now I obviously know that doesn't happen, but it is kind of funny looking back...

Robyn

When I was little, I always pictured teenagers as girls. I never thought of boys to be "teenagers" when they reached the teen age. I don't know why; I guess its because I never knew any teenage boys, only girls.

anonymous

When i was in 4th grade. My mother told me that babies came from the heaven and god made them just the way they look now. Well i truly thought this so i told one of my friends at school that we were going to be this small for ever i later found out that we still grow after you come out of your moterd stomach

William Greathouse

I used to believe that when you "became" a grown-up (a huge, dramatic event in which you went to bed as a kid, and then magically, when you woke up, you'd turn into an adult, complete with Disney-esque fairy dust, lol), you'd automatically know everything, and be perfect. So, if my parents got angry with me when I was a kid, it was just because they were impatient that I had yet to undergo the "amazing transformation" that they had, and become perfect like them. Over time, however, I figured out the truth, by watching my parents screw up from time to time, like the time my mom knocked the sugar bowl on the floor and yelled "Damn it!!!" thus teaching me my first psuedo-swear word at the age of three. Or the time my dad built me an intricately designed tree house when I was four, complete with stairs, a porch, and three windows, that he said required trigonometry to build.....but he stupidly measured the door EXACTLY to my four-year-old height, not taking into consideration the fact that I would GROW. Or the time my dad decided to make a "golf course" in the backyard, so me and my brother could practice with our Fisher-Price golf clubs, and he used soup cans as the golf holes, which worked great until the first time it rained, and they filled up with rain and leaves and rust......or the time my dad was teaching my brother to ride a bike, but he neglected to teach him how to stop, until he rode his bike into the garage door and cut his lip and had to get stitches and subsist on Carnation Instant Breakfast for a few days. I have more stories, but I can't really think of any more off the top of my head right now, lol.

Emily

When i was 4 my older brother who was 9 told me dat wen i became a tennager i would become a completly different person and no-one would recognise me and i would have to find a new family. i got so upset that he confessed later that night that it was a lie!!!

Russell

When I was a little girl, I believed I would go to a far away country and marry a prince. And I actually did almost just that!! :)

Anon

When I asked my grandad what growing old meant, he replied it was like becoming an antique ... your chest sank into your drawers!

Pete C.

I use to think that teenagers were adults and already had adult lives.

emily