I used to believe that the queen lived in a retirement housing estate about 5 minutes away from my house.
This is because, on the way to school oneday when I was 5, we went past estate and a big banner saying "HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUEEN ELIZIBETH" hung from bungalow to bungalow.
On my birthday party we had had a "happy birthday Claire" banner hung on the window so that my friends could find my house for the party.
I then realised that the queen OBVIOUSLY lived in one of them bungalows, and today she was having a party with all her friends.
I had an image in my head of the queen and all her posh old lady friends drinking cherryade, eating cake and playing games like pin the tail on the donkey!

Claire Bear H!!!!

i used to believe that i was the only one with a birthday on June 25 and that i was the only cancer in the WORLD, yes in the world..lol

June 25

I used to believe that my birthday was when the new year started and everyone turned a year older on that day. Everyone else just had to wait to get older until my birthday (My birthday's actually in the middle of June).

Emma

when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth

christine

whenever i was small and my birthday came around...my mom would say "your birthdays just around the corner!" we lived close to a corner and i would picture the whole sesame street crew and that one guy with the blue shirt and he was holding a cake and they were all marching. whenever we were coming home i would always check to see if the sesame street gang were waiting there for me.

sesame street

When I was five my sister told me many times that I was really twenty-five and on my next birthday I'd change back to my real age--twenty-six. She said I'd be reunited with my husband that day and have a baby. I believed her.

Roslyn

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

Anon

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 that my birthday was celebrated on the 22nd of every month... I actually expected presents! When I didn't get any, I thought my parents had forgotten, and I would wait for the next month!

J. Acevedo

I used to believe that EVERYONE got a car on their 16th birthday.

Brooke F.

When my brother was born on my 3rd birthday, I thought he was my birthday present. I ran around saying he was mine, he was my present.

Years later I asked my mom if I could return him and she told me there were no refunds, the store was closed.

Kat

As a 4 year old kid, I was always dissapointed to beleive that my cousins were older than my after only 5,10,12 months etc.

Steve

When i was about 5 or 6, the only month i knew the name of was September, so whenever anyone asked when my birthday was, i always said september even though my birthday is in october!

hogwarts dropout, england

In the mid 90's, I used to believe that babies who were born in the year 2000 would live forever.

Anon

I used to think everybirthday you got a new name... I remember the day before my 5th birthday thinking about what my new name would be...

Steph

As a very young child (kindergarten-age or so), I believed that it took longer for my birthday to come around every year because it was in January--at the beginning of the year. In my mind, I had to wait for the WHOLE year for my birthday to roll around, whereas everyone else would, I guess, be having multiple birthdays. Ah, sweet innocence.

Todd

My mom led me to believe that when I was turning 10 that I could really be 16 if I wanted to skip 6 birthdays I was really angry with her when I found out it wasn't true.

Julie

My sister uesd to think that you did a whole year's worth of growing in the night before your birthday.

Richard Davies

When I was little I my baby brother was born in July so after that I thought all babies were born in July and then they got to choose what month they wanted thier birthday to be in.

Emily

for some reason, sometimes when my mom and i would go to stores i would loudly announce my b-day...thinking that the strangers around me would come to our house and give me presents. didn't think to also say my address...and i was always disappointed that those complete strangers never got me anything! lol

Anon