until i was about 9 or 10 i believed that people never stopped growing until they died - i used to imagine that people who lived to 100 were about 8 feet tall!
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- That everyone had the same amount of skin and that short people were fat and tall people were skinny.Anon
- I used to believe that when you are 90 years old, you are also 90 feet tall.Anon
- When I was little I believed that the people on TV lived in there. — linda
- i used to think water towers were houses for really tall people. I thought they had big heads to.— Alyssa
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio
- I used to believe cartoons where real people. You can imagine how that went... — Emma