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.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that everybody who was bigger or taller than I was always older than me.— Stano Finji
- i used to belive that kidney beans were bean shaped things that grew in kidneys... untill yesterday — Jokey
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- When I was a child I used to believe that the things in my room became smaller but it was me who was growingAnon
- I thought that big people are necessarily smarter because there brains would be bigger— Quatsch
- When I was little I used to belief that my clothes shrunk systematically, instead of me growing...— Nico