When I was about 4 or 5, my cousin would make me mad, so I always said to mayself, "When I grow up, I'll be older than her, and that will show her..." And I don't know how I thought I could become older faster...
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- I have a cousin who thought he could run faster when he got new shoes .. Anon
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- 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
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela