When I was little I didn't know what the word teenager meant. I heard it a lot on tv or when my sister's friends came over. I never once thought to ask anyone what it meant, so I came up with my own definition. According to me at age 5 a teenager was an evil person who broke into your house at night to steal your toys. How I ever got this idea, I don't know. I found out what it really meant when I was about 6 and I was watching a tv show with my sister. It was about this group of teenagers and stuff that they did...so whenever they said the word teenager I would think to myself, if the people who make this tv show know that teenagers exist, why do they let them be on tv? I mean, back then I thought stealing toys was the worst thing you could do. When I asked my sister why this was so, she couldn't stop laughing. She still makes fun of me now. On my 13th birthday, she came up to me and sed "you're a teenager now, go steal someone's toys" i hate her.
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- When I was a teenager, I used to believe that someone's name-day occured as half-birthday.— Marcas
- I used to believe toys came alive at night.
Because I love toys, and I hoped be good friend with my toys.Anon - I thought your loins were kidneys, and nobody corrected me until I was a teenagerAnon
- in kindergarden i beleived that to be a teenager your name had to end with teen— eric
- Until I was a teenager, I believed that rain made worms came out of driveways.— Marc
- I thought Santa was going to be sent to jail for stealing gifts from Toys R Us.— Sandy