I think I believed that on your birthday you didn't turn a year older until your birthday party but this was disproved on my fifth birthday and my mom was rambling about me being five but I said "No I'm still four" because my party wasn't until later that night and my mom said "No you're five."

Anon

I used to think you grew a certain amount on your Birthday, you ONLY grew on your birthday, and on your birthday all your clothes would also grow however much you grew so they would still fit.

I remember my mum saying I had grown out of some clothes quite a few times, and this used to puzzle me. Eventually I decided they had grown like me, just not enough for me to fit into them any more.

I was a weird kid - still kinda am!

the world looks to me

I used to beleive that the singing of "Happy Birthday" was the actual process of making you a year older. Therefore when I had it sung to me at nursery school and at home, I thought it would add two years on to my age!

Anon

when i waz little i used to think that i didnt have a birthdathen i thought i had three brithdays feb.28 feb.29 & march 1 because i waz born on feb 29

crazy gurl

When I was 6 in 1990, I used to think that when I turned 7 I would be born in 1983. I thought that the year you were born always changed as you got older.

Megan

I used to believe that because my birthday was on the 3rd of July and my sisters was on the 20th of June....that my birthday should come before hers because 3 comes before 20. hahaha it wasnt until years later that i realized you had to fit the months into the equation as well LOL.

Jill

When my brothers and I were young our Father whos birthday is on 26th January used to tell us all the fireworks and celebrations were for his birthday. I remember at school being asked what we did on Australia Day? I replyed "Don't you mean Dads Birthday" I was devestated to find out that not everyboby was celebrating my Dads birthday.

Angie

I used to think my mom and Doctor Suess were twins because i had the same birthday.

Aud the odd

Sometimes for my birthday, my parents ordered a cake with my name on it. I thought they just dropped by the bakery to buy it. I remember thinking, how did the bakers know it was my birthday and how did they know my name.

Anon

Since I was born on the 4th of July, I really thought the entire country celebrated my birthday.

-Stoddard

When I was in first grade I told this one girl that it was my half birthday (birthday plus six months). She told me that if you pay attention to half birthdays you'll always be shorter. I was horrified, because she was so much taller than I was!

queeneve

When I was little, I thought very year you had a birthday, you went into someone else's body, but your eyes, and your brain were the same still. Haha. I don't know why. I guess I was odd.

Rissa.

i was born july 26 so i just barely escaped being a cancer (im a leo) and i was so relieved because i tought that everyone who is a cancer has cancer!

leo-girl and loving it!

Someone I know thought that your favorite number has to be the same as your age, so on your birthday your favorite number is different.

Anon

I used to believe that on your birthday you were alowed to either chose to leave the earth forever or stay another year. I found out it wasn't true when I didn't get asked that on my birthday.

Josie

I was born on July 2nd and because my family would all get together on the 4th, we would celebrate my birthday then. Every year we would end the day watching fireworks, and so for years I believed that the fireworks were my birthday present from God!

Still love fireworks

My birthday is in July. When I was little, I thought the 4th of July fireworks were in honor of MY birthday.

abracadaver

I used to believe that there was a specail place where everyone in the world went when they were 5. Since I was four, I was very much looking forward to my 5th birthday when I would get to go to the specail "Five-year old Land". Needless to say, I was very very disappointed when I turned 5.

Anon

I used to believe the day you turn 70 you would get thin, hunch backed, weak, sick, and old. My dad's turning 70 next year and I'm not so sure he'll get like that.

Anon