Before I understood death, I believed that people would grow up and become really old, and then when they reached a certain age they would "grow down" until they became babies again, and then the cycle would start all over again. It never occurred to me to ask whether I had once been an old person already.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- i thought that when it was your birthday you grow and then you didn't grow until a years time.— hello
- When I was little, I couldn't wait to grow up so I could grow a mustache. I am female.— Laura
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- I used to believe that people would not grow if they did not do poo.— anonomous
- when i was young, i thought all people with the same name would grow up to look the same. — kim