My brother always firmly believed that one day would be older than me. My mom told him that he wouldn't, but he might be bigger than me. I figured that this meant I'd shrink at a certain age to be smaller than him.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- My older brother told me that everytime you sneezed your lungs would bleed. I believed this until I was 21!— Gem
- I used to believe that everybody who was bigger or taller than I was always older than me.— Stano Finji
- When my mom would say that my eyes were bigger than my stomach I thought she meant it literally.— Amanda
- When I was small, my brother would bug me and say that if my hand was bigger than my head, I had a tumor.Anon
- My great-grandfather firmly believed, and had me convinced, that SPAM was mouse meat. — texasblue
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know