I used to belive that however many pieces of cake you had determined how old you were turning!

Anon

i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.

I am the ghost

i thought when you turned 12 then you turned back into a baby and grew up until you were 12 again.

Rachelle

In second grade, my friend and I were very into the movie Grease. We thought that John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and the other actors from Grease would hang out with us if my friend invited them to her birthday party. John actually wrote back and said that he wouldn't be able to make it, but he wished her a happy birthday!

Nivalep

This girl in my class, at finding out that I was turning six, told me that if I died when I was six, I would go to hell because six was the devil's number.

Tater

I convinced my sister one year we would skip her birthday. But then when she really believed me I some how convinced her that the next year she would have two birthdays.

MEAN BROTHER

when i was little i asked my mom what my zodiac sign was....i was born in july so i'm a cancer....but when she said it i thought she meant that i had cancer!

Sammy G.

My name is Erin, my birthday is shortly before St. Patrick's day, and I grew up in an area with a large Irish population. For a few years, I thought all the "Erin Go Bragh" signs in store windows etc. were for me! I couldn't figure out why they said "Go Bragh" instead of "Happy Birthday" or something like that though (I could read pretty well).

Erin

I used to believe that you could only be born on a holiday or someone else's birthday. Funny enough I still believe that now..my oldest daughter was born on my birthday, and my other daughter was born on "Patriot's Day" (the OLD patriots day AKA Paul Revere's Midnight Ride not to be confused with the new one on Sept 11th.)
Just where does this belief come from? Hmmm...

My Bday April 4th (sometimes also Easter)
May 31/June 2 & 3rd Parents Anniv, bdays
Feb 18 Bro's Birthday (near Valentine's Day, honest to god he was late, and I thought my parents were worried because he missed the 14th, but made up for it by being born in the car in a blizzard!)
and my poor little brother was born on Oct 15....so I saved him by getting married on Oct 16th!
And he still won't let me live down that his birthday was overshadowed by my Rehearsal Dinner! :-)

So now..I tell the children it's the truth, you just don't know the person who shares your birthday yet, or the holiday will be invented just wait!

Kelly

My two sisters and I were all born on Presidents birthdays.

My oldest sister = Kennedy
My middle sister = Lincoln
Me = Eisenhower

When I was younger I thought everyone in the world was born on a President's birthday. It made perfect sense to me then! =)

Jessica

I used to believe that on your birthday, you didn't advance to your next age until you ate your birthday cake.

Casi

My birthday is in February and my sister's is in April. We were two years apart, so when I had my birthday, it would look as though we were only one. (As in, I would be 7 then, and she would be 8) I used to think that someday I would end up older than my sister.

Renee

When i was little i used to think that I could ketch up to my brothers age (he was 6 at the time and I was 3). I thoguht that if I tried to grow really hard that I could get to be the same age as my brother.

Ian Dezelan

My birthday is on February 4th. When I was three years old, I thought that because I was turning 4 on the 4th, I would turn 5 on the 5th, 6 on the 6th, and so on and so forth. I wondered what would happen when I turned 28, though, until someone, I think my sister, explained...

Esther

When I was about 4, i thought that every time you had a birthday, you would suddenly learn a new talent or ability. I was dissapointed when i turned 5 and i still didnt know how to snap...

Anon

since your birthday isnt on the same day (like it isnt always on a wedensday or thursday it changes)

i thought your birth date changed too...

at about 6 i asked mum if i was born on thursday (because thats when my birthday was that year)

she said no it was monday or something so i fidugered that since it was six years ago i was born on the 20th of july instead of the 26th... so that next year my birthday would be on the 27th then the 28th and so on...

i remember being so excited that eventually my birthday would be at christmas!!! (withouht realising id be about 200 years old but then again i was 6)

dave

My teacher was telling us a story about how when she was 5, since her birthday is October 10th...10/10, she thought everyone's birthday was like her's. For example, 5/5(May 5th), 6/6(June 6th), 7/7(July 7th), and so on.

Maddy

When I was about 4 or 5 I thought you had to have your party on your birthday, and got confused when I'd been to a friend's party and was told it was her birthday a week later...

Hannahmarie

It wasn't until later in life that I found out that not everyone had a birthday bird who delivered the gifts to their home on their birthday.

Lucinda