When I was about 5 I was convinced that as you got older you got taller, cos everyone I knew who was older than me got taller. Consequently I believed you just kept growing and growing throughout life. In hindsight, my grandfather should have been 10 feet tall.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you were taller than someone, you had to be older than them.Anon
- I used to believe that everybody who was bigger or taller than I was always older than me.— Stano Finji
- My dad told me that playing basketball makes you taller. Basketball players are tall, so I believed him.Anon
- I used to believe that the man had to be taller the the woman to married her.Anon
- i used to believe that if i walked in the rain i would grow taller.Anon
- when i was little i used to think that drinking soup would make me taller — gella pas doue