My birthday is on February 4th. When I was three years old, I thought that because I was turning 4 on the 4th, I would turn 5 on the 5th, 6 on the 6th, and so on and so forth. I wondered what would happen when I turned 28, though, until someone, I think my sister, explained...
A childhood belief about birthdays

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you could not make the car turn left or right without turning the blinker on.— Christy Shane
- i used to believe the turning signals on cars helped them turn sharp corners.— Julia
- if you drank coffee before your 16th birthday, your skin will turn purple.Anon
- Up until I was almost 11, I thought that a birthday suit was a special outfit you wore only on your birthdayAnon
- I once asked my mum when she was a little boy, and I wondered when it was my turn too.— Confused
- Until I was well along in years I always thought our family was Irish because my dads birthday was March 17th— Gladys