I thought that adult hood started at age 21. I found out it started at 18. I thought it was weird that you reach adult hood before you finish being a teenager!
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- I used to think "Robin Hood and his merry men" was "Robin Hood and his *married* men."Anon
- When I was a child, I thought that grown-ups were adult.— Gloria
- My brother thought that one adult was a dult and that one alert was a lert.Anon
- I thought adultery was when you acted too much like an adult as a kid and wondered whats so bad about that?— Butch McFear
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon
- that when I grew to be an adult my parents would be children.— Rainbow