I noticed that there were lots of short old people so i used to believe that when you became an old person, you would start shrinking again.
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- Based on that memorable scene from the "Wizard of Oz," I used to believe that people died from shrinking!— Julie
- I used to believe that my clothes were shrinking not that I was growing.— Joann
- That everyone had the same amount of skin and that short people were fat and tall people were skinny.Anon
- Since the girls name Jackie is short for Jacqueline, I thought the boys name Jack was short for JackalAnon
- I used to think people with lots of freckles were playing with crayons and drew dots on their face.— WOW
- I used to believe that toy poodles were actually normal poodles shrinked by a shrinking ray — nightmare