When my older sister was little, she cried one year becasue she didn't get an invitation to her own birthday party. My mother tried to explain to her that she didn't need one, but my sister wasn't satisfied until she got her own invitation
A childhood belief about birthdays

others believed things like this
- i used to think that if i didn't celebrate my birthday each year my younger sister would catch up with me— q
- My sister uesd to think that you did a whole year's worth of growing in the night before your birthday.— Richard Davies
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- I used to believe that on your birthday, you didn't advance to your next age until you ate your birthday cake.— Casi
- My sister told me that if you had sweetcorn in your poo, you had six months to live! I cried for weeks — Billy