When I was very little, an older family friend would always talk about how she was "shrinking" and that one day I'd be bigger than her. Well, I took this information and from my very active imagination, I concluded that people grow as big as giants when they turn 100. Then, they start to go backwards, and they shrink until they become babies again. This cycle would continue until the person died from being shot or some completely unnatural thing. I really was a strange kid.
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
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- that....I do not grow old (in size)...rather my clothes and shoes shrink..— mayank
- My mom used to believe that the San Francisco Giants baseball team were actual giants.Anon
- I used to believe that when people died their eyes would turn to XsAnon
- I used to believe that when people died, their bodies would immediately turn in to a skeleton— fv