When I was about eight years old my mom asked me one day, what do I want to become when I grow up? I told my mom that I want to become a boy or a man, because i thought that we change gender in a certain stage of growing up.
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
- I used to belive that if you ate anything that had mould growing on it, you would grow mould on your skin. Anon
- I used to believe Nuns are a third gender, a cross between men and women:)Anon
- I used to think that growing pains meant that a tomato plant was growing in your stomach.— Annette
- My sister told me that if I could kiss my elbow I would change into a boy. I never disproved her on this.— Aussie
- my nanna told me if I swallowed gum that I would have a gum tree growing out of my tummy— ms pouty