i thought that when people got to a certain age (80 or so) they would start getting young and become a baby. i was 8 years old and talking about when "I was born again", imagine my disbelief when my mother explained death to me...i was horrified, the shock never really wore off.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- When I was young, I believed that because my mother was born in New Mexico, that I was part Mexican.Anon
- At a young age I couldn't imagine how people without glasses could marry the ones wearing them. — Ana
- If a man wore his shirt out, I thought his wife was going to have a baby.Anon
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- I used to believe that people born on leap year would only age once every 4 yearsAnon
- My Mother used to tell me only the good die young and I would live to be 100+ years old because I was bad.— William