I used to believe that people didn't grow old, I mean, I really thought that my grandmother just born with that age, and I was terrified when I discovered that my mom would be really old one day.
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
- Migets were people who were bad when they were kids and there parents didn't let them grow up.— Teresa
- i believe that if im born in december im older then people born in may— runawayfox16
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- How could Baby Jesus be born on Dec 25th, get tall, grow a beard and then die, all by Easter. Whew!— Joe
- When I was little, I thought that people were either born with bangs, or without them. =DAnon