My grandpa's birthday and my own are on the same day; I had a really hard time trying to work out why he was older than I was.
A childhood belief about birthdays

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if i didn't work at school, i would have donkey ears, so now i work hard !!!— denis
- i used to think that i was older than my dad because my birthday was before his— zara
- My cousic used to think he was older than me because his birthday was in June and mine was in December.— //**...Ethan...**\\
- i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- Up until I was almost 11, I thought that a birthday suit was a special outfit you wore only on your birthdayAnon
- I used to think that a birthday suit was a special outfit you wear on your birthday— Bri