When I was younger, in most of the couples that I knew, the man was older than the woman. This somehow gave me the idea that men always grow up to be older than women. The younger son of my mom's friend was harassing me by saying that he was older than me. His mom said "No, Christopher, she is older." I matter-of-factly told her, "I'm older right now, but he's sort of right becuase boys always grow up to be older than girls." I was quite confused when she set me straight.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela
- I thought that Dad's were always older then Mom's, come to find out my mom is a few months older than my dad.— Nicole
- I thought my grandad would get older, so I asked him 'What do you want to be when you're older?'.— Afterlife Dreamin'
- My older brother used to tell me if you ate raw potatoes your teeth would grow long and curly!— Lauren
- I used to believe that one day, my younger brother would be older than me and then he'd pick on me!— Andrew