When I was 5 or 6 and younger my parents would sometimes say things that started with "when you grow up. . . " I would listen politely to this assumption, but of course I knew that I had ALWAYS been a little kid and would naturally stay that way. And those stories about when they were kids? Made up completely.
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- Migets were people who were bad when they were kids and there parents didn't let them grow up.— Teresa
- when I was younger , I used to soup made you grow taller — dark-titouan-du-55
- I used to believe that the boogie man would come and get me if I didn't listen to my parents.Anon
- I used to believe that our insides were made completely out of tuna— molly n
- my dad told me that hershey park was made completely out of chocolateAnon
- My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.Anon