I used to believe that my grandmother was older than my grandfather because I knew that whoever is the oldest is always in charge. (In truth he was 5 years older)
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- My oldest sister is 15 years my senior. I used to think that she was older than my mom.— Callie
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- That people older than me knew what they were talking about.— Mark
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela
- 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'