One time, when I was a little girl (about four), my older sister asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I firmly answered, "A man."

She became very upset and argued with me about it, but I was immovably determined. She even ran and told our mother about it. Mom wasn't too concerned. (I am still female, so it appears that mom was right.)

Erin

I spent a lot of time with my dad, he worked at home. When I was 3 and 4 and would misbehave, he would say "When I was a little girl, I didn't do that." I knew caterpillars changed to butterflies, and pollywogs to frogs, so for a while I thought I could grow up to be a daddy. My mother disabused me of that notion, when she heard it.

elsieh

because i could never read my mum's handwriting, i used to think that adults had a different "grown-up" writing and that it was completely different to kids writing. i was worried that i couldn't understand it and spent ages drawings long squiggles on pieces of paper to see if they meant anything.

Anon

I used to believe that grown women couldn't wear normal socks - that after a certain age, you had to wear nylons with everything.

Ronda

My mom used to tell my sisters and i that we could be whatever we wanted to be when we grew up, therefor my little sister decided she wanted to be a tree!

silly

When I was very little, probably about 2 or 3 years old, I was sitting in my car seat fastening my seatbelt. I was proud that I was getting good at doing that. I thought to myself that once I'd mastered seatbelt-fastening, I just had to learn how to knit and how to do up buttons, and I'd know everything I needed to know in life!

Sarah

i used to think you had to pass an exam to become an adult, from 5-8 i was obsessed with studying how to care for a baby, how to drive and having posh dinners XD it wuz a laugh when my mum told me u age as time goes by!

ShikamaruLuva

I thought that adults used to see life in black and white, just like on the pictures they showed me. I couldn't believe they could see colour!

wuss

My ex-girlfiend's daughter was about 3 or 4 years old and her mother also had a 8 month-old baby boy at the time.

In conversation, I referred to the baby as a boy. The daughter corrected me and said "That's not a boy, that's a baby!"

She wouldn't believe me when I tried to explain that he was a baby boy. In her mind, it was either a boy or a baby, it couldn't be both, and clearly it was a baby.

Scott M. Stolz

When my older sister was teasing me or being mean to me when I was younger, I used to tell her: "Just WAIT till I'm older than you, THEN you'll pay for everything you ever did to me..!" I was convinced that when you reached a certain age, you would start all over again...

Marianne

as a kid i believed that as soon as you became a teenager you had to break into houses and steal stuff, and spend the rest of your time hanging out in front of the local 'milk bar'. This was mostly thanks to my mum blaming all bad things on teenagers and the fact that we lived in a pretty rough area full of bored teens. I soooo did not want to be a teenager!

donttrustanyoneover30

I used to believe that everyone lived until they were 100 and you dropped dead on your 100th birthday!

Natalie

When I was in kindergarten (about 5 or 6), some kids in my class had gotten into the conversation whether or not God ever danced. My mom always told me she was SO OLD she knew Wilma Flinstone, George Burns' mother, etc., so I proceeded to stand up and tell everyone that I would ask my mom because she was from the "olden days" and she'll know if God ever danced (she was only about 38-40 at the time).

To this day I'm reminded by my mom that I told everyone she'd know if God danced. I can't live it down!

Annabelle

I used to think that people never stopped growing. When my mom talked about clothes she'd owned for years, I couldn't understand why she hadn't grown out of them.

sm

when i was realy young my grandparents would always say you are geting so old so fast, since i was young i was worried becuz i didnt wanna grow up, so i started to pour baby oil all over myself whew ever i could. My mom would ask why i was so greasy and i would say "Im using the baby bottle to get young mommy!" The day later i was only allowed to go to the bathroom with my parents, lol

[EnterSnazzyNameHere]

When I was about 4 or 5, I don't know why I thought this, but I thought that whenever I (or anyone) became a teenager that I would have to get braces and that my head would grow abnormaly large for my body, and that I would have to go through some kind of medical testing before I got a drivers liscense. I have no idea why I came to believe this.

keri

When i was in about 2nd or third grade, my Mom would always tell me that when you turned 7, every parent cooks their child and eats them (wierd, i know)... so i remember sitting on the play ground at school, and looking at all the older kids (older than seven) and assuming they all ran away from home since their parents never cooked them... i started making my own escape plan, and really freaking out for when my birthday would come. then i turned seven, didnt get cooked, and im TOTALLY going to say that to my kids when im older.

Brandi

I used to believe that every time my teacher threw a birthday party for kids with summer birthdays, we were already another year older. When I was in kindergarten (6 yrs old), and it got to be spring of my kindergarten year, my teacher threw the summer birthday kids a birthday party (I was one of the summer birthday people) before school ended for the summer. I went home and told my mom I was 7 years old...She said, "No, you're not, you have to wait until August." and I said, "How long until August?" and she said, "Not for a long time." and I said, "Well, I want it to be August NOW!" and then she went on to tell me it just wouldn't work out that way... The same thing happened when I skipped from kindergarten to 2nd grade (I was in 1st grade after kindergarten, but for only one month, then they moved me to 2nd grade). My 2nd grade teacher threw a birthday party for everybody in my class that had summer birthdays (a lot of us!), so I went home again and told my mom I was 8 years old. I was soooo bummed!!

PZelda

i used to believe that when I grew up and was perfect (which is the line my grandmother kept telling me ..) that I would be able to take my teeth out just like her.

Anon

When I was about four, I saw a very old hunched-over man with a cane walking down the sidewalk. I pondered this sight for awhile, and then realized" that he was so old, that his wrinkling and stooped posture were just the beginning of a process whereby he was slowly becoming a little baby once again. This made sense to me: little babies grew up, grew old, and in growing very old they became infants once again, and the cycle would continue. "Ahh," I thought, "I must have been an old man before."

Scott Moore