I used to believe that clothing would grow at the same rate as people. If you bought something that fit when you were 5, it would still fit when you were 30. In stores I would often stand looking at the tag of a shirt waiting for it to change from a 'Small' to a 'Medium'.

Keith

I used to believe that when you grow up, you lose your given name and become just Mr., Miss, or Mrs. Whoever.

Andrew Buc

When I was about 4, I knew that people changed as they got older, so I believed I was going to grow up to be a boy with red hair and freckles.. even though at the time I was (and still am) a mostly freckle-free female brunette.

SnornL

My father, the loving man he is, told me that when i turned twelve, I would turn into a boy. But my sister (who was thirteen at the time) was a girl. I pointed this out to him, and told me that Heather had been a boy untill she turned twelve. From then on I had my mom buy me boys clothes so that I would be prepared. I was pissed off when I turned twelve and was still a girl.

Lisa

When i was younger, and i was told i could be anything, I got very excited and couldnt get to sleep taht night.The next morning i ran downstairs and said i want to be a car but then later came to my senses and wanted to be a blue robot instead,and till this day people laugh atme about it but some day i will be a blue robot and no body can stop me just common sense.

Peter

My son when he was aged 4 asked me: "Mummy when I am 5 will I have a 'five-head'?" Completely puzzled, I asked him what he thought a five head was and he replied "What my forehead will turn into when I am 5" (Now he has an 'eighteen-head'!)

Sherry

I used to believe that I would grow up overnight. One night I'd go to bed as a kid, and then when I woke up the next morning, I would be an adult. For awhile when I was a kid, every morning I'd wake up and check myself for boobs.

Anon

When I was little, I asked my grandpa why old men were bald. He said it was because they had gotten so smart that all the knowledge in their heads pushed the hair out.

Shan

I used to believe that when boys got older they turned into girls and vice versa. Using this logic all the photos of my "dad" as a kid were really of my mom. I wish i knew why i thought this.

Anon

When I was little, my Dad always used to start stories with "When I was a little girl" so I always believed (I am female) that when I grew up I would become a man and my brother would become a woman.

Janice

I convinced one of my best friends that when men get old, they don't have enough strength to push hair out of the tops of their heads, and that was why they went bald and why they get hair coming out of their noses and ears. We were fourteen at the time... She still hasn't lived that one down.

Jodie

This was my younger sister:
When she was about 5 she told my mom that she couldn't wait until she was 12. When my mom asked why, my little sister replied "because when I'm 12 I can be a mommy like you". My mother laughed and said "Oh no you can't!" My sister got very upset.

Anon

I believed that my grandma had a pet dinosaur.

Mack

i used to think that my parents were born as adults (in their current size and all) and i would get very upset thinking that i would stay a kid forever because i wasn't born as an adult!

Anon

I used to believe that the taller you were the older you were, so of all my mates I was the oldest because I was the tallest.

Bean

I once asked my mother that if people grew bigger as they got older, what happened to other things, like the table, or my toys... she told me that, obviously, they shrunk. So for a long time I believed that living things grew bigger over time and inanimate objects got smaller.... easy to believe since I kept outgrowing all my clothes.

John

When my son was about six or seven, he asked my Dad who was in his sixties then, if he was the first man ever.

Lisa

When i was in kindergarden our teacher was teaching us our left and right hands. She did this while facing us, therefore her left was our right and she tried to explain that this was because she was facing me. I didn't understand so for a long time i thought that when you became an adult your right hand became your left and vice versa.I kept waiting for the day that my hands would switch.

Anon

When I was very small, I remember believing that the natural progression of age would transform me from a daughter to a son, then to a mother, then to a father, then a grandmother, then a grandfather. I guess I didn't understand the mechanics of gender yet.

Nik

When I was young there were a lot of foods I didn't like. My grandma, who was the one who cooked used to tell me that adults liked all foods and that I wasn't going to grow up until I started liking all foods. I believed her for awhile, but still wouldn't eat certain foods.

Christiecat